Cole Swensen

Part of the Jean Valentine Series

"Swensen's insightfully idiosyncratic prose lyrics connect readers to their surroundings in new and surprising ways, reintroducing things and investing them with a prescient awareness and intelligence."
—Library Journal Starred Review

May 2026
ISBN: 9781949944785

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R. A. Villanueva

Winner of the 2024 Alice James Award

"Intellectually rigorous and emotionally piercing, Villanueva’s sophomore collection (after Reliquaria) threads Greek myth, Christian iconography, and family history into a frank exploration of mortality. ... The result is a dynamic book of witness, resistance, and radical hope."
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

"[A Holy Dread] tackles difficult topics while interweaving Villanueva’s Filipino American upbringing throughout. … Villanueva is a gifted poet, and his new collection is sure to appeal to many readers."
—Sarah Michaelis, Library Journal

"Villanueva has the ability to transform language into images, ideas, and moments that stir my spirit and enkindle my mind. It is a remarkable thing, to watch as a writer gives you new vocabulary with which to move through the world—to describe things you have seen, or felt, or sensed but could never capture with your own tongue or pen. We are so lucky to have these poems."
—Clint Smith, author of How the Word Is Passed and Above Ground

February 2026

ISBN: 9781949944860

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Nick Martino

The 2024 Alice James Award Editor’s Choice

"Martino’s debut collection lounges on Lake Michigan beaches, looks out on Milwaukee’s skyline, and provides readers with myriad ways to enjoy these poems. ... Scrap Book asks what we inherit from our parents, what lies behind a broken relationship, and the meaning of conviction and the handcuff 'chaining us to memory.'"
—Abby McCabe, Booklist Starred Review

"Nick Martino's formally inventive debut poetry collection draws on his mother's journals and 1980s Polaroids to capture a family dynamic overshadowed by divorce and incarceration."
—Rebecca Foster, Shelf Awareness Starred Review

June 2026
ISBN: 9781949944792

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Ina Cariño

"Ina Cariño's Reverse Requiem addresses the ghosts of history, which through language and tender attention, Cariño exhumes and brings to aliveness with sumptuous naming. Working against silence and power and deeply imbued with liberatory politics, the poems are an ode to self, lineage, and love. This work is a triumph."
—Cathy Linh Che, author of Becoming Ghost, Split, and An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History

"In their second full-length collection, Whiting Award–winner Cariño bends time. Challenging the theory that entropy can only increase, these poems pull ancestors and ghosts known and hidden to the fore, evoking a shared timeline that bends in many directions ... A slim collection that feels much heftier than its page count, this is a luminous work."
—Sara Verstynen, ALA Booklist

April 2026
ISBN: 9781949944778

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Judith Vollmer

"This collection offers much to think about and the language to revel in, an opening of soul, a true poet’s journey, one of artful surprise and subtle grace."
—Catherine Anderson, RHINO Reviews

"The poet shows how we wear our loneliness with care, even a beautiful resilience, until the day a soft hand of curious innocence touches us, leading us to put away the things that have made themselves our fears about love. The light fills the empty, tattered sketched in Vollmer's latest work. These are poems that bring the global nature of who we are into a time when fantasies of pure being flood into our spaces. Inspired by Cesare Pavese, Vollmer reminds us of the complex beauty of our souls, how love takes root in every detail of who we are, despite the real dangers of war and conflict. This is quintessential work by one of our finest poets."
—Afaa M. Weaver, author of A Fire in the Hills

March 2026

ISBN: 9781967149087

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