Joyce Sidman’s keen eye for the natural world informs her many books of poetry. Her latest, “Hello, Earth!,” is framed as a conversation between a curious person and the planet itself, and it explores ...

The poems are a study of human nature, its evolution and devolution, and the complexities that we create by ignoring the simple story of nature.

Valerie Hsiung is the author of multiple poetry and hybrid writing collections, including The Naif (Ugly Duckling Presse, forthcoming 2024), The only name we can call ...

The tensions between free and formal verse are as fiercely held as they are unproductive. As American formalist Dana Gioia once wrote, “Only the uninformed or biased can fail to recognise that genuine ...

Concrete poems introduce the remarkable attributes of major Earth landforms in this playfully informational picture book whose shapely verse suits its subjects. A piece about continental drift takes ...