Special introduction by Daniel Halpern, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair […]
In Every Day We Get More Illegal, a collection of poems written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness, and later, in quiet moments of reflection, coalesce into an urgent, […]
Special introduction by Natalie Satakovski, 2020 Gulf Stream Literary Magazine editor-in-chief. Gulf Stream Literary Magazine champions vibrant and eclectic literature and art. Based in Miami, it publishes emerging and established writers from the USA and beyond. Join contributors Melissa Goode, whose work has also appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly and Best Australian Short Stories; Sara McNally, […]
The Burning Where Breath Used to Be by Jen Karetnick is an all-consuming trek through a distinct sensibility – nothing escapes its notice, and nothing fails to be fuel for her fires. These poems witness, converse, debate, and reckon with the world in daring, inventive, and prescient ways. Sponsored by
Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome, the poems in Kazim Ali’s The Voice of Sheila Chandra bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival, but of persistence, as this part research-based, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to […]
Homie: Poems is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that […]
Special introduction by Daniel Halpern, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. The National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair […]
Billy Collins’ new collection, Whale Day and Other Poems, brings together more than fifty poems and showcases his deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination, yet stay grounded in the familiar, […]
Moderated by Campbell McGrath, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. In Summer Snow: New Poems, his first collection of poems since 2010, Robert Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world, his subtle humor, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye […]
Grades 9 – 12 Introduced by the Miami-Dade County Teen Court. Punching the Air, a novel-in-verse by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam, tells the story of Amal Shahid, who has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then […]
Grades 3 – 7 Introduced by Cierra Bragan, Miami Mom Collective Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice is a collection of poems by Mahogany L. Browne, Olivia Gatwood, and Elizabeth Acevedo that reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice, tackling topics from discrimination and empathy to acceptance and speaking out. […]
In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not? Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change, social disruption, our new mass migrations, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present – a now […]