New Michigan Press

WINNER OF THE 2015 DIAGRAM/NEW MICHIGAN PRESS CHAPBOOK CONTEST "For Colleen O'Brien, a word is myriad inside, like a geode. So is a sentence, so is a painting, so is a scribbled note whose "i" might...

In stark, fevered, poetic lines, Valen Arnoux confesses his intimate participation in 131 executions. As a prison guard and member of the strap down team, he is compelled to rehearse, to perfect his...

"Sutured with strange, glittering sentences fat with music and intelligence, the flung you negotiates the kinetic, violent, vigorous dance of existence. Anderton writes with both exuberance and...

George Kalamaras' THE MINING CAMPS OF THE MOUTH is the winner of the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press 2012 Chapbook Contest. In The Mining Camps of the Mouth, George Kalamaras's newest book, we encounter a...

Zachary Harris's THERE IS ANOTHER POEM IN WHICH THE NEWS IS ERASED AND REWRITTEN is a great and strange debut. Studded with esoterica like musical theatre, Anita Ekberg, the Scythians, a Victorian...

Marc McKee's WHAT APOCALYPSE is a tumultuous, exciting, hilarious, bizarre, beautiful, and terrifying high wire act. Winner of the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press 2008 Chapbook Contest, this book is...

Created using only a 2000 plus printer 30 self inking stamp, Catie Hannigan's poems have a physicality to them that most contemporary poetry can't touch. Though the poems are small, the world she's...

"There is a kind of alluring, cosmic deadpan to these poems that deftly unveils our contemporary experience of its peculiar and sometimes even Romantic wonders. Playful and impulsive, mirthful and...

"I want to read one of these in my newspaper daily and then when they're done to get them in my newspaper all over again from the beginning. They are keen, talky, funny, immediate, clear, kind, and...