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Incredible debuts by contemporary poets
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Here are some of today's poets' first books that I love. These new voices bring new worlds to discover with new ways of thinking about and engaging with the contemporary poetry landscape. I've added three-word micro-reviews to distill the essence of ...
 
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Ecofeminist + womanhood + musical language (Bias alert: I wrote it!)
night myths • • before the body by Abi Pollokoff
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Unflinching + harrowing + brilliant
The Years of Blood by Adedayo Agarau
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Indigeneity + mythmaking + meditative
The Museum of Unnatural Histories by Annie Wenstrup
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Historical fiction + sonic delight + a little witchy
Wrecks by Erin L. McCoy
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Connection + queer joy + wildness and freedom
Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang
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Mythic rewriting + pushing against domesticity + reclaiming agency
Helen of Troy, 1993 by Maria Zoccola
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Confessional + political + a daughter carrying familial legacy
Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin
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History + legacy + lyric power
Mele by Kalehua Kim
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Borders + belonging + memory
We Contain Landscapes by Patrycja Humienik
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Family + relationship + countering expectations
Book of Potions by Lauren K. Watel
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Desire + obsession with the body + power vs. control
Someone Else's Hunger by Isabella DeSendi
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Sisterhood + Biblical reimagining + lyrical gutwrench
BLOODMERCY by I S Jones
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Private vs. public grief + resisting set histories + punchy
You're Called by the Same Sound by Alicia Wright
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Natural world + personal remaking + quiet power
Little Mercy by Robin Walter
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Intimacy + lanscape + abstraction as pressure
Strange Beach by Oluwaseun Olayiwola
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Grief + erasure + the lyric edge
No Rhododendron by Samyak Shertok
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