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Revelations is a captivating collection of poetry and literary translations about faith, doubt, and chaos. Ruben Quesada's poems are simultaneously wondrous and contemplative, witnessing trauma of both public and private lives that have been made and unmade at the hands of the Information Age.

"From the first, devastating poem ("i touch myself & do not leak gold"), George Abraham's poems bristle with alchemy, a narrative of love, history, family, and Palestine that pulses with longing. Juxtaposed with Leila Abdelrazaq's startlingly evocative artwork, this book is a fearless, riveting excavation of self and other." - Hala Alyan

"In Midnight in a Perfect World, Collin Kelley navigates the moody landscapes of desire, travels the dark edge of Eros in the 21st century of love, charting his passage in language sometimes brutal, sometimes lyrical, often both at once. And if that perfect world all lovers seek remains elusive, here we break the boundaries of the familiar and arrive in a place where we can breathe the twilight air and step, almost, into the dream of it, ourselves." - Cecilia Woloch, author of Tsigan"Collin Kelley is a master craftsman, reliable and unrelenting with language of emotional precision. Midnight in a Perfect World versifies life, love, and loss on two continents. This is a collection of deft, intimate stories worthy of being reread and reexamined often." - Steven Reigns, author of Inheritance"Midnight in a Perfect World is an excellently observed and written collection, taking you deeper and deeper into a world which you may never have encountered so closely or so intimately. It is an achingly emotional collection, filled with love, disappointment, betrayal, loss, and lack of and yearning for love. It does more than tear at your heart-strings … it plucks them out altogether." - Agnes Meadows, author of This One Is For You

In Corporal Muse, poet Allison E. Joseph pulls back the curtain on her writing process, searching for (and finding) The Muse in unexpected places. These are poems of love and praise. They are time machine and magic spell. Corporal Muse is a cross-section of poetic technique so strong it conjures The Muse to wherever the reader holds this book.

Subject to Change is an anthology celebrating the work of five poets who are unapologetically trans: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Christopher Soto, beyza ozer, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and Kay Ulanday Barrett. Featuring poetry and interviews, this collection is a testament to the power of trans poets speaking to one another—about family, race, class, disability, religion, and the body. This anthology includes a range of trans experiences and poetics, expanding the possibilities of what it means to be both trans and a writer in the twenty-first century.-----Subject to Change is revolutionary, a culture and power border-smasher & a piercing examination of brilliant, painful, and transcendent Trans consciousness and experience. It is personal document, a set of trans community-journey notations and an at-the-edge howl of love for love. Each poet goes beyond poetry, that is, beyond being the gendered & genre-ed. Each writer calls out a manifesto against death, against “being pulled apart,” against frozen progressive social movements and the “homelessness” of being. What does Freedom, Bravery, Self-realization look like? Enter these five poets—their questions, their investigations, their bodies on paper, their humanity. A superb diamond, in motion. I love this book. You will too.— Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2016-17  

In the fall of 2016, Bryan Borland embarked on a book tour that took him across the United States. Set against the backdrop of a divisive presidential campaign with an unanticipated victor, an explosion in New York, a historic World Series, and a maturing relationship at home, Borland navigates the ways we become tourists in our own lives.

"These poems are love letters to manhattans, meteor showers, and mononucleosis; to friends hundreds of miles apart; to the great love I sleep with. I didn't go get an MFA; I got married instead. All of you, your books, your reviews and criticisms, I read you and learn daily. Some I am even lucky enough to work with at Sibling Rivalry Press. This education is worth more to me than any program I could have attended. So, thank you, for your wit, your courage, your intellect. Thank you for you." -Seth Pennington

“Walt Whitman writes: I am he attesting sympathy. Joseph Ross could say the same. The poems in Ache flow from a fountain of compassion for those so often denied these sacred waters: immigrants crossing the border at their peril, people of color murdered by police now and half a century ago, the martyrs whose names we know—from Trayvon Martin to Archbishop Romero—and whose names we do not know. In one breath, the poet speaks in the voice of Nelson Mandela, addressing the mother of lynching victim Emmett Till; in the next breath, he speaks of his own high school student, a young Black man spat upon by an officer of the law. In clear, concise language, Joseph Ross praises and grieves the world around him, the music as well as the murder. He also engages in prophecy: If you leave your country in the wrong hands, / you might return to /see it drowning in blood, / able to spit / but not to speak. Yes, indeed.” - Martín Espada

Anthony Frame, by trade, is an exterminator. Frame is, also by trade, a poet. Frame writes what he knows, inviting us into the delicate world of pests others pay to have extinguished. What is not expected is the forgiveness for which he begs; how all these creatures live and die and live again so vividly in these pages.

“Amir Rabiyah is a magician who has tasted salt of the creation story’s sea. The cleaving of human to spirit found in Prayers for My 17th Chromosome is a blood tangle that will kiss your cells till you sweat / constellations. Rabiyah reminds their reader that to exist in between boxes of national belongings, migrations, queer kinships, and disability is not to swallow war. Rather, in these verses, complications find respite in one another, [becoming] the endless, / the source, / the horizon / awakening.” - Rajiv Mohabir, author of The Cowherd’s Son and The Taxidermist’s Cut

If You Can Hear This: Poems in Protest of an American Inauguration includes poems from over 70 poets from all over the world writing in response to the 2016 United States presidential election. Poets include Kaveh Akbar, Nickole Brown, Jessica Jacobs, Michael Klein, sam sax, and Eloisa Amezcua, plus many, many more. 

Bold and wise, compassionate and erotic, the poems in Avowed explore aspects of a contemporary lesbian life within a committed relationship and as a citizen in the larger community. The narrator celebrates (“We break a glass. Mazel tov! We cry.”) and mourns her losses (“Sometimes, between three and four a.m./on a break from her game/of bridge, your dead mother visits.”). Riffing on Jewish liturgy, the feminist declares “everyday/I thank God/I was born a woman.” Avowed delivers a complex, sustained vision of intimate partnership while celebrating the political changes that have secured LGBTQ visibility.Robin Becker, author of Tiger HeronAvowed asks the critical question, “Is paper all that makes a marriage?” For the queer bride in a long-term relationship, the answer is as hard-won as the right to marry. Julie R. Enszer explores the bittersweet journey of a lesbian couple’s struggle through the happily ever after with an edgy and humorous perspective that dares to share deep truths about desire, sex, and love.Rigoberto González, author of Unpeopled Eden