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In a q&a after a reading I gave at George Mason University in the spring of 2023, I paraphrased a conversation I had with my brother earlier that year. We were on the stoop of his home in Bed-Stuy,...

"a/0 is a glorious, terrifying, tender enchantment--an immersion in a world made strange through the alchemy of metaphor--where approaching noon might become a horse, breathing hard, glowering. Here,...

Weston Cutter's poems are ecstatic--reaching out, pulling an eyelid over, pulling everything in. Emerson's transparent eyeball and Ashbery's convex mirror combine in symphony, with the Peterson's...

"Remember when we were young and first dreamed of a life of writing? It would be like living as a spy, or in a movie. Life suddenly made sense and could be endured insofar as it could be written...

WITH LOVE AND DREAD AND RAGE AND LOVE, Or is it anticipation cut perversely Something must happen Dear ones, say you feel it too Parts of my body are blank It's not a wish but it's also not Cassandra...

Jennifer Moss's BEAST, TO BE YOUR FRIEND, a finalist in the 2008 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, is a strange beast indeed. Beautiful and odd in equal measure, these poems charm, are...

"What a superb writer Nick Neely is and just the kind of natural history observer we need in a time of fierce change. He enlivens chiton, eel, newt, hummingbird in the sapling outside the Safeway,...

"Reading Trey Moody's poems feels a little like standing among flags slapping in a bright wind in a field of flags, except that it's the middle of the night and each flag moves according to its own...

A chapbook of six beautiful and sharp essays by Steffan Triplett. "Questions that crossed my mind today: How much does a geography shape a gender? How much does time influence a self?"Author: Steffan...

Luminous and feral, DEER HOUR is part creation documentary of the worlds we build for ourselves with language, part elegy for the fact that it is impossible to generate closure without enclosure. In...

DIAGRAM.4 is the fourth print installment of the journal DIAGRAM . These texts are selected from years 7 to 9 of the journal, and are joined here by a great many found & recovered diagrams...

Deborah Bernhardt's DRIFTOLOGY, the 2013 winner of the New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, is a thrilling linguistic ride. We'd almost say dizzying, since she shifts so quickly between...

In a litany that is both a grand introduction and the mournful aftermath, Joshua Poteat celebrates, serenades, and grieves the animal passing through the frame in an accident and a perfection of...

In Fugitive, wild bergamot escape from their gardens while prisoners sleep in permanent fluorescence. Nature blossoms and thought fills the meadows, bridging the color between spirit and matter. This...

"In Heat: An Interview with Jean Seberg, Stephanie Dickinson becomes the voice of a legendary movie star and the last All-American girl Jean Seberg. Written as a fictional interview, no question is...

Winner of the 2009 New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM chapbook contest, Ben Mirov's I IS TO VORTICISM is an auspicious debut from a poet to watch. "A recurring character in the poetry of Ben Mirov is Ben...

Winner of the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest in 2014 "Johnson's poems, full of quiet and gracious observation, are acts of kinship-in-strangeness with the natural world. Even the...

It's a great debut: welcome to Stephanie Anderson's chapbook, In the Particular Particular, the winner of the 2006 NMP/DIAGRAM chapbook contest. These poems smoke when sprayed with water: that is how...

"To be unable to speak, to be shy, to be quiet, to be reticent, is not to be silent, or silenced--not if one listens carefully to the state of reclusion, as carefully as Jennifer S. Cheng does in her...

Genine Lentine's new chapbook, a finalist in the NMP/DIAGRAM 2009 chapbook contest, is a great debut. "Reading Genine Lentine's poems--so ardent and playful, risky and affecting--I kept thinking that...

New American Monarch resonates with those at the crossroads of identity, offering a reflective and empowering exploration of the struggles and triumphs that define the path to personal evolution...

Dark and beautiful and strange, NIGHT-SEA is the second chapbook by Rachel Moritz (author of THE WINCHESTER MONOLOGUES, also by New Michigan Press), and further extends her interests in the curlicues...

"In No One Wants to Live Here, Mark Holden turns fantasy and reality inside out, showing us the frail thread that holds them together and the raw edges that our superegos scrabble to keep hidden--the...

"Expertly weaving various textual matter into beautiful, nuanced, and finely balanced form/content patterns, Barbara Maloutas's OF WHICH ANYTHING CONSISTS is a serial exercise in radical apposition...

"What are these? Birds passing over at midnight? Light speeding sideways? Or call them poems and their marvelous footnotes, just for now: in On Subjects of Which We Know Nothing, Karen Carcia has...

At once documentary in its plain-spoken observations and attuned to the romance of place, this chapbook buzzes with people laboring, cowering ranch houses, food courts and "failed utopias." A history...

Oh yes! Chlo? Joan L?pez's QUODLIBET, a finalist for the New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM 2008 Chapbook Contest, is a stellar debut indeed. Brainy, defiant, and precise, these poems explore form and light...

These are dark and playful, sometimes brutal, seemingly confessional poems. Here you will find: long electric hair, death by tetherball rope, sex, termite-infested houses, potato salads, prehistoric...

The winner of the 2010 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press chapbook contest. "Slur Ouevre is sui generis: original, strange, exceptional, solitary." --Mary RuefleAuthor: James D'AgostinoPublisher: New...

A finalist for the 2012 NMP/DIAGRAM Chapbook Competition, Brandon Krieg's SOURCE TO MOUTH is a rangy collection of poems. Reading Emerson and Hopkins, "seven hundred salmon flashes in an hour,"...