Poets Out Loud

Edited by Elisabeth Frost, Fordham University

Poets Out Loud is a community of poetry at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. POL’s mission is to provide opportunities for the creation, dissemination, and enjoyment of poetry. The POL Reading Series presents free, year-round public readings by noted and emerging poets, serving the Fordham University community and New York City at large. The POL Book Series, run in coordination with Fordham University Press, issues two new full-length volumes of poetry annually, awarding publication and honoraria to the best manuscripts submitted in an international competition.

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A Gray Realm the Ocean

A Gray Realm the Ocean

Jennifer Atkinson, Patricia Spears Jones

Jennifer Atkinson

The poems in Jennifer Atkinson’s A Gray Realm the Ocean were all written under the influence of art-specifically twenty-and twenty-first-century abstract visual art. All the art referenced in the...

ISBN: 9781531500894

Boats in the Attic

Boats in the Attic

Alison Powell

Alison Powell

Boats in the Attic is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis. Errands...

ISBN: 9781531500856

Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners

Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners

Sarah Mangold, Cynthia Hogue

Sarah Mangold

An electrifying feminist poetics combining language and visual collage to explore gender, landscape, taxidermy, and the idea of a “natural body”An innovative book-length poem that delves into the...

ISBN: 9780823297702

Well Waiting Room

Well Waiting Room

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

A collection of poems that contemplate the bureaucracy of the mind through interior political cabinetsTaking its name from the banal, purgatorial space outside (but inside) a doctor’s office, Well...

ISBN: 9780823297771

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites

My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites

S. Brook Corfman, Cathy Park Hong

S. Brook Corfman

NAMED THE BEST POETRY OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMESMy Daily Actions, or The Meteorites is the result of a daily investigative writing practice, in which I was worried that a poem invested in the particulars...

ISBN: 9780823289493

scenery

José Felipe Alvergue

José Felipe Alvergue

In scenery, lyric’s public voice and memoir’s personal reconciliations confront the archives of America’s racial and legal histories, resulting in a genre-bending exploration of what it means...

ISBN: 9780823288670

Gray Matter

Sara Michas-Martin, Susan Wheeler

Sara Michas-Martin

Gray Matter: 1. the material of the brain. 2. an expression naming an idea or situation held in shadow. This book tangles with the unknown, but also celebrates the seductive curiosity its mystery provokes—A love letter from the imagination to the scientists and philosophers who, despite remarkable attempts, still cannot locate its source.

ISBN: 9780823257799

Cyclorama

Daneen Wardrop, Kimiko Hahn

Daneen Wardrop

Cyclorama is a book of poems named after the theatre-sized, in-the-round oil paintings popular after the American Civil War. It features the voices of people often overlooked in representations of the war, such as nurse, child, draftee, prostitute, enslaved person, Native American soldier, and woman soldier.

ISBN: 9780823265763

Midden

Julia Bouwsma, Afaa M. Weaver

Julia Bouwsma

WINNER OF THE MAINE LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY!FINALIST FOR THE JULIE SUK AWARD!SELECTED AS ONE OF NPR'S 2018 GREAT READS!ONE OF BOOK RIOT'S 50 MUST READ POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2019!In 1912 the State...

ISBN: 9780823280988

Xamissa

Henk Rossouw

Henk Rossouw

Xamissa is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. Xamissa adapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running from Table...

ISBN: 9780823281107

Fannie + Freddie

Fannie + Freddie

Amy Sara Carroll, Claudia Rankine

Amy Sara Carroll

In Fannie + Freddie / The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, Amy Sara Carroll ‘undocuments’ the quotidian’s shades of gray/grey, the contingencies of post-Fordist relationality in the pre-Occupy window of time between September 11, 2001 and the 2008 Great Recession.

ISBN: 9780823250912

Things That No Longer Delight Me

Things That No Longer Delight Me

Leslie C. Chang, Cornelius Eady

Leslie C. Chang

Things That No Longer Delight Me is a collection of poems about family and memory. This book is filled with objects. The author writes:I like objects for company,to decorate the plainest spaces, decorumandI...

ISBN: 9780823232000

Errings

Peter Streckfus

Peter Streckfus

Spoken on the margin between death and birth, reading and writing, separation and union, the poems of Errings address the absent—a lost leader, a remote love, a protégé not yet born—and across those distances delineate the motion of consciousness as it passes from one body to the next.

ISBN: 9780823257768

The Hello Delay

The Hello Delay

Julie Choffel, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Julie Choffel

Afterword by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

This text explores themes of familiarity and strangeness, asking the reader to consider the differences between them and where they overlap. Sampling from all forms of communication, the author implores us to greet the unknown and to listen in turn.

ISBN: 9780823242306

Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse

Corinna A-Maying the Apocalypse

Darcie Dennigan

Darcie Dennigan

Corinna, A-Maying the Apocalypse simultaneously celebrates and laments that “we are but decaying.” Betraying a love of old poems and symbols and new words and forms, these are poems where “the...

ISBN: 9780823228577

The Revolver in the Hive

The Revolver in the Hive

Nicolas Hundley

Nicolas Hundley

Chronicles the emotional journey through loss and grief by using a variety of poetic forms and literary traditions including the gothic and the surreal.

ISBN: 9780823250882

Multiversal

Amy Catanzano, Michael Palmer

Amy Catanzano

Winner of the PEN USA Literary Award in PoetryWinner of the Poets Out Loud PrizeMultiversal, the second book by Amy Catanzano proposing a theory of quantum poetics, invites readers to explore the...

ISBN: 9780823230075

Hearsay

Lee Robinson

Lee Robinson

Hearsay celebrates a woman's life from childhood to middle age, including the often-ignored subject of work, with a voice that is sometimes tender, sometimes whimsical, but always strong. The winner...

ISBN: 9780823224104

Continuous Frieze Bordering Red

Continuous Frieze Bordering Red

Michelle Naka Pierce

Michelle Naka Pierce

Continuous Frieze Bordering [Red] documents the migratory patterns of an Other as she travels between countries, languages, and shades of Rothko’s red. A narrative on hybridity, the text navigates the instability of cultural border identities and functions as an ekphrasis of Rothko’s bricked-in, water-damaged windows in his Seagram murals.

ISBN: 9780823243051

The New York Editions

The New York Editions

Michael D. Snediker

Michael D. Snediker

The New York Editions is a Lycidan Dichterliebe to a distant Beloved, opening onto and out of a submerged, decades-long experimental translation of The New York Edition—Henry James's late-in-life reissue of his own novels and short stories—into poems, queerly calibrated to an optic of otherworldly contiguities.

ISBN: 9780823278152

Crocus

Karin Gottshall

Karin Gottshall

WhetherAligned with the mechanismwhereby the spirit is borne aloftthrough song comes againthe question: whether. And not soothedso much as opened by the boysoprano’s Sanctus, what movesin the mind...

ISBN: 9780823227310

This Minute

Jean Gallagher

Jean Gallagher

This Minute is a connected whole, in which the verse is driven by strong intellectual excitement, evident in the energetic movement of the lines and in a vocabulary that switches easily from the colloquial...

ISBN: 9780823225477

Invisible Tender

Invisible Tender

Jennifer Clarvoe

Jennifer Clarvoe

Jennifer Clarvoe’s Invisible Tender is the first winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in coordination with Fordham’s Poets...

ISBN: 9780823220908

Rotary Devotion

Rotary Devotion

Gary Keenan, Alice Fulton

Gary Keenan

Rotary Devotion examines the endangered imagination and the will to sing in chaos. It’s titular motif of ceremonial disorientation moves through individual poems with relentless precision and exhilarating, transformative impact. The poems discover a difficult and necessary beauty in crisis by being themselves as plainly and directly as possible.

ISBN: 9780823278107

On Generation & Corruption

On Generation & Corruption

Terrence Chiusano

Terrence Chiusano

Explores the use of procedural constraints in the production of poetry, prose and prose poetry. Examines issues of realism, narrative and narrativity, and confronts the problem of how place is constructed on the page. Follows Aristotle’s original On Generation and Corruption (or, On Coming to Be and Passing Away) in considering the question of permanence and change.

ISBN: 9780823265787