Subjects & Themes - Political & Protest

  • A Grain of Sand in Lambeth: Poems

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    In A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, visionary world of William Blake. Drawing on Blake’s own rejection of tradition and his relentless quest to c… [more below]

    • Series: Test Site Poetry
    • Author: Babbitt, Geoffrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 114
    • Publish Date: December 02 2025
    • ISBN10: 1647792053
    • Language: English
  • Something Small of How to See a River

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    Through the weaving of documentary poetics, first-hand accounts, dialogue, and lyric, these poems tell the story of co-running a school at the Ocethi Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock.

    Something Small of

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    • Author: Dzieglewicz, Teresa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: October 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 194648282X
    • Language: English
  • Interrogation Records: Poems

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    Finalist for the 2025 Lammy Awards for Bisexual Poetry

    Interrogation Records is not only an important piece of historical research but also a display of significant poetic talent.” –Electric Literatu

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    • Author: Sophronius, Jeddie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: April 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1958652075
    • Language: English
  • The Nightmare Sequence

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    An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo–poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed-that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.

    The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atr… [more below]

    • Author: Skar, Omar
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1643622978
    • Language: English
  • Paper Crown

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    First poetry collection in a decade from acclaimed author of The Crying Book

    Since Heather Christle published her last poetry collection a decade ago, her nonfiction works The Crying Book and In the Rh

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    • Series: Wesleyan Poetry
    • Author: Christle, Heather
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: August 05 2025
    • ISBN10: 0819501697
    • Language: English
  • Echolalia Echolalia

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    Shortlisted Raymond Souster Award

    Interviewed on CBC Books

    CBC Best Poetry Book 2024

    Relentlessly inventive poetry that proclaims a diasporic, queer, and disabled self-hood.

    In Jane Shi’s echolalia echol

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    • Author: Shi, Jane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 122
    • Publish Date: October 01 2024
    • ISBN10: 1771316373
    • Language: English
  • Terror Counter

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    TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages-interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical–constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.

    It moves through sec

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    • Author: Tbakhi, Fargo Nissim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: June 24 2025
    • ISBN10: 1646053796
    • Language: English
  • The Thomas Salto

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    The Thomas Salto takes its name from a difficult and dangerous move in gymnastics, a leaping triple flip popularized during the last years of the Cold War. Both in its Reagan-grained historicity, and … [more below]

    • Author: Straw, Timmy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 105
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 0578358549
    • Language: English
  • What to Wear Out

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    What to Wear Out is a poetry collection that offers a portrait of a mind corseted by the pathological norms of patriarchy, white femininity, and the neoliberal notion of happiness as a project of capi

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    • Author: DeGregorio, Jen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 9798218545635
    • Language: English
  • Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco

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    COVID Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco meditates on the extraordinary time of loss, isolation, and bizarre rituals of the Covid era and its aftermath.

    “Yep, she’s still got it. . . . Like

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    • Author: Finley, Karen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 0872869350
    • Language: English
  • Sonnets from a Cell

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    *Winner 2023 Alcuin Award* Poems for and about the incarcerated.

    Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters’ debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psycholo

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    • Author: Peters, Bradley
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1771316136
    • Language: English
  • The Murmuring Grief of the Americas

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    “All I ever wanted is to keep the police away from the outside of my body and keep the police away from the inside of my body.”

    In The Murmuring Grief of the Americas, 2016 National Book Award winner

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    • Author: Borzutzky, Daniel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 156689705X
    • Language: English
  • Personal Problem

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    On the heels of his 2020 debut Love & Solidarity, Brendan has returned with a brand new collection of poems that circle his obsessions; money, class, work and the political economy of ecological colla

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    • Author: Joyce, Brendan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 68
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1088278426
    • Language: English
  • Poems by Presidents: The First-Ever Anthology

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    “Well-written, thoroughly researched, and impeccably organized, Poems by Presidents explores an intriguing and unexpected side to many American presidents: they wrote poetry! In this excellent antholo… [more below]

    • Author: Croland, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: December 13 2023
    • ISBN10: 0486851532
    • Language: English
  • False Offering

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    Rita Mookerjee’s False Offering, while providing a trenchant critique of the oppressiveness of “white space,” is also glittery, culinary sumptuous, and scythe sharp. Shot through with equal parts “nec

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    • Author: Mookerjee, Rita
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: November 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 1956907041
    • Language: English
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