Belladonna*

April and October tend to be the big months for new poetry releases, but this batch of June and July titles is exceptionally strong. Why is this? I have no idea, but I’m also not going to think about it for too long. I’ll be busy reading.

Black Cat Bone. John Burnside (Graywolf)

Chord. Rick Barot (Sarabande)

Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems. Carlos Drummond de Andrade, trans. by Richard Zenith (FSG)

Tender Data. Monica McLure (Birds, LLC)

Turning into Dwelling. Christopher Gilbert (Graywolf)

All Is Not Yet Lost. Betsy Fagin (Belladonna*)

Count the Waves. Sandra Beasley (Norton)

In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy. Daniel Borzutzky (Nightboat)

My Feelings. Nick Flynn (Graywolf)

Scattered at Sea. Amy Gerstler (Penguin)

April and October tend to be the big months for new poetry releases, but this batch of June and July titles is exceptionally strong. Why is this? I have no idea, but I’m also not going to think about it for too long. I’ll be busy reading.

Black Cat Bone. John Burnside (Graywolf)

Chord. Rick Barot (Sarabande)

Multitudinous Heart: Selected Poems. Carlos Drummond de Andrade, trans. by Richard Zenith (FSG)

Tender Data. Monica McLure (Birds, LLC)

Turning into Dwelling. Christopher Gilbert (Graywolf)

All Is Not Yet Lost. Betsy Fagin (Belladonna*)

Count the Waves. Sandra Beasley (Norton)

In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy. Daniel Borzutzky (Nightboat)

My Feelings. Nick Flynn (Graywolf)

Scattered at Sea. Amy Gerstler (Penguin)

Today Coconut Books announced that they will be publishing my first full-length poetry collection Swan Feast in Spring/Summer 2015.When I told my good pal and righteous artist friend Roxy Drew the news, she illustrated this fantastic titular image within hours. 

Along with my book, Coconut will also be publishing Danielle Pafunda’s The Dead Girls Speak in Unison, Krystal Languell's Gray Market, and and and Bernadette Mayer’s chapbook Uncle Andrew’s Pile of Pads. 

Junot Diaz, Ken Chen, Dawn Davis and Johnny Temple are just a few of the voices in the second installment of Lynn Neary’s series on diversity in publishing. (Here’s the first, and here’s the Pew study mentioned above.)