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Dear Diaspora

Susan Nguyen
This collection is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. It explores the intersections of girlhood, identity and selfhood against the backdrop of the Vietnamese diaspora.
Judas Goat

Gabrielle Bates
Gabrielle Bates’ electrifying debut questions what it means to love another person and how to exorcise childhood fears. This collection wrestles with betrayal, forced obedience, violence and young womanhood.
Saints of Little Faith

Megan Pinto
These poems’ meditative transformations engage with South Asian experiences of addiction, domestic violence, and mental illness, refusing to ignore narratives treated as unspeakable and overlooked by the English canon.
Something About Living

Lena Khalaf Taffaha
Something About Living explores Palestinian life through the lens of American language, revealing a legacy of obfuscation and erasure. What happens when language only permits ongoing disasters to be packaged neatly for consumption and subsequent disposal?
回 / Return

Emily Lee Luan
Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.
The Museum of Unnatural Histories

Annie Wenstrup
Debut poetry collection from Whiting Award recipient and Dena’ina indigenous nations poet Annie Wenstrup which reclaims the right of interpretation, reinvention, artifact and myth through the space of an imagined museum.
Selected Poems

Pat Parker
A selection from the most vital poems of by Black, lesbian, feminist poet Pat Parker. During her lifetime, Parker was beloved in her communities for her extraordinary performances of poems.