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We Call to the Eye & the Night
Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage

Exquisitely curated and introduced by acclaimed authors Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck, We Call to the Eye & the Night gathers nearly two-hundred vibrant English-Language love poems by contemporary writers of Arab descent. Featured are evocative explorations of love and of the beloved, friendship and family, heritage and homeland, transporting us from city centers to the depths of the sea and to the stars above.

We Call to the Eye & the Night is an exciting new resource, granting access to a myriad of Arab writers writing in English today.” —Los Angeles Review of Books


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An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness by Amy Newman

In poems that shift under the weight of their formal properties, Amy Newman describes a physical world stuffed with maddening beauty, trifling joys, and the will to persevere, even though all of it might come to a spectacular nothing.

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Bound by Jubi Arriola-Headley

“In poem after poem Arriola-Headley shows how to plumb into the very heart of feeling through poetry’s unique means, with a lyric assurance, formal variety, captivating sensibility, and lambent humor distinctly his own. Bound confirms he is one of our best!”—John Keene

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Glass Jaw by Raisa Tolchinsky

Winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry

“An astonishing, unforgettable collection.”― Laura van den Berg

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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing by Kimberly Grey

"What we learn from these pages is the power of language—searing, ingenious language—to remake the self word-by-word, to ‘reassemble’ an ‘I’ in the present tense." —Julie Carr

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Each Luminous Thing by Stacie Cassarino

Winner of the 2022 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award

From the boreal woods of Vermont to the coastal canyons of Southern California, Cassarino’s second poetry collection maps the parallel tracks of walking through shifting terrains and becoming a mother.

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Exploding Head by Cynthia Marie Hoffman

“Hoffman’s fourth book compresses the relentlessness of fear and obsession into electrifying prose poems, boxes threatening to burst… I felt I’d been transported into another woman’s extraordinary brain.”—Eugenia Leigh

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Updates

Submissions for the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award are open now through March 15th.

Congratulations to Andrea Ballou, whose collection Family Business won the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize! We are excited to publish her debut collection, and we’re grateful to everyone who sent us their work.

Andrea (Read) Ballou’s poems and book reviews have appeared in Barrow Street, Copper Nickel, FIELD, Ilanot Review, Plume, Plume Anthology, The Missouri Review, Tupelo Quarterly and elsewhere. Andrea received her PhD in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of Chicago and her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, she is also the recipient of a National Resource Fellowship, a Tinker Foundation Grant, Artist’s Fellowships and Project Grants from the Somerville Arts Council, and a residency at Joya/AIR in Spain. She has been teaching weekly poetry workshops for elders at the VNA since 2018 and serves on the board of the Somerville Arts Council. Andrea divides her time between Massachusetts and mid-coast Maine, where she tends 500 acres of forest.