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This folio presents ten contemporary poets from nine countries, all of whom faced persecution, war, or genocide, as well as threats to their safety because of their writing.

Poetry, I sensed, might dwell in indeterminacy rather than seek to resolve it. 

Which standards are you looking to deviate from? 

I am transported to his wry and melancholy Buenos Aires.

Resilience is not an ideal, but is instead a fact of life for many poets across the globe. 

Robin Becker on her fifty-year career. 

By uniting new and rediscovered writing, Nightboat Books fosters an expansive discourse across 20th- and 21st-century queer, experimental, and transgressive literature.

Joshua Bennett's prophetic We (the People of the United States) is an American pastoral fully aware that our relationship to the land has been more tragic than idyllic. 

Survey now open to Poetry Foundation library visitors

On war, revolution, and the lyric as a tool for survival. 

In Karen Solie’s poems, Canada’s poisoned lands become theaters for searching moral questions.

Ugly Duckling Presse is a collectively-run, nonprofit publisher of poetry, translation, experimental prose, performance texts, and books by artists.

Initiative targets chronic underfunding of literature, directing unrestricted support to literary arts nonprofits serving writers and readers across the U.S.

Hrabě’s poems embody the Czech sixties literary scene, during which the Beat Generation’s literature permeated Czechoslovakia. 

A Canadian writer who has received recognition from quintessentially French institutions.

A poet with interests in cross-border
affinities in poetic history. 

Gray Barker helped create UFO mythology from his home in rural West Virginia. In his poems, he channels the repression and paranoia that stalked postwar America.

By identifying, cultivating, and publishing both new and established poets and selecting authors of unique literary talent, Boa Editions brings high-quality literature to the public.

For Bruce M. Wright—a lawyer, judge, and poet who lived through Jim Crow—words held worldmaking force.