What to Read for National Poetry Month
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’re excited to share a reading list of new poetry collections. Here at the University of Chicago Press, we’ve recently published Daniel Mendelsohn’s new translation of The Odyssey. This magnificent feat of translation conveys the poetics of the original while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure of Homer’s most popular epic. On Chicago’s own Phoenix Poets Series, we’re pleased to share five new titles published this year, including two bilingual editions.
There’s even more to discover from our distributed client presses. You’ll find moving collections from up-and-coming poets at Acre Books, Athabasca University Press, Brandeis University Press, CavanKerry Press, Omnidawn Publishing, Seagull Books, Swan Isle, and Tupelo Press.
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From the University of Chicago Press
The Odyssey by Homer. Translated, with an introduction and notes by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Phoenix Poets Series
Infinity Pool by Jonathan Thirkield
The Great Zoo: A Bilingual Edition by Nicolás Guillén, translated by Aaron Coleman
Slashing Sounds: A Bilingual Edition by Jolanda Insana, translated by Catherine Theis
Dissonance by Kristin Dykstra
Moon Mirrored Indivisible by Farid Matuk
Acre Books
The Alcestis Machine by Carolyn Oliver
Scream / Queen by CD Eskilson
Athabasca University Press
My Works, Ye Mighty by Christian Bök
Brandeis University Press
The Prelude by William Wordsworth, edited by James Engell and Michael D. Raymond with an afterword by Helen Vendler
Swan Isle Press
Rome: Pedestrians Beware by Rafael Alberti
The Men Who Killed My Mother | Los hombres que mataron a mi madre by Fernando Valverde
CavanKerry Press
All at Once by Jack Ridl
In Inheritance of Drowning by Dorsia Smith Silva
All that We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell
Beyond the Watershed by Nadia Alexis
The Last Beast We Revel In by Noah Davis
The Lost Nostalgias by Esteban Rodriguez
Seagull Books
Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq
The Universe, All at Once by Salim Barakat
Cahier by Friedericke Mayröcker
Light Everywhere by Cees Nooteboom
A Calligraphy of Days by Krzysztof Siwczyk
The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa
Poems by K. G. Subramanyan
The Minotaur’s Daughter by Eva Luka
Omnidawn Publishing
music from behind a stone wall by Steven Rood
Whosoever Whole by Elizabeth Scanlon
Underscore by Julie Carr
Call This Mutiny by Craig Santos Perez
Defensible Space/if a crow— by Ian Lockaby
Omitting All That Is Usually Said by Robin Caton
The Wayfarer by Cyrus Console
Archon / After by Ruth Ellen Kocher
The Patient Is an Unreliable Historian by Brody Parrish Craig
Percussing the Thinking Jar by Maw Shein Win
SUR by David Koehn
Apprentice to a Breathing Hand by Laynie Browne
Inventorys by Sam Creely
Hover by Liza Flum
NAOMIE ANOMIE by Jennifer Hasegawa
Bloodletting by Kimberly Reyes
Clay by Martha Ronk
Alibi Lullaby by Norma Cole
Tupelo Press
The Beautiful Immunity by Karen An-hwei Lee
Landsickness by Leigh Lucas
Green Island by Liz Countryman
Called Back by Rosa Lane
The Right Hand by Christina Pugh
The Opening Ritual by G.C. Waldrep
The Radiant by Lise Goett
The Haunting by Cate Peebles
Phantom Number by Spring Ulmer
Mycocosmic by Lesley Wheeler
The Last Milkweed by Jeffrey Levine
Jalousie by Allyson Paty
Perishable by Stelios Mormoris
Westminster West by Chard deNiord
Nebulous Vertigo by Belle Ling
Daphne by Kristin Case
National Poetry Month Events
These titles are available now from our website or from Bookshop. Happy National Poetry Month!