Poetry

Diane Seuss published frank: sonnets with Graywolf Press in March 2021, and by the time the awards stopped arriving, the collection had won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. The Atlantic named it one of…

The Body Remade Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s Water I Won’t Touch is a collection about the trans body – about what it means to inhabit a body that is in the process of becoming what it should be, to live through the long difficult work of transition while also living through addiction recovery, grief, and the…

A Memoir That Refuses Its Own Form Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House defies easy categorization, which is perhaps why it appears here alongside poetry collections – it has the compression and the formal self-consciousness of the best poetry, even though it is, strictly speaking, a memoir. Published by Graywolf Press in 2019, it…

A Poet Most People Forgot to Notice Ursula K. Le Guin was known to the world primarily as a novelist – the author of the Hainish Cycle, the Earthsea novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed. What was less widely known outside the literary poetry community was that she had been writing and publishing…