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However and Wherever We Are
Poems from Persea’s First Fifty Years
To celebrate Persea’s 50th Anniversary, we are proud to present However and Wherever We Are, a sampling of more than fifty poets essential to the press’s identity and signifying its successful quest to become a vital force in contemporary poetry, beginning at its founding in 1975.
Among the poets are Cameron Awkward-Rich, Paul Blackburn, Elizabeth Bradfield, Molly McCully Brown, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Paul Celan, Mitchell L. H. Douglas, Sarah Gambito, Kimberly Grey, Ramon Guthrie, Nazim Hikmet, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Marie Howe, Kimberly Johnson, Osip Mandelstam, Sandra Meek, Les Murray, Thylias Moss, Laura Riding, Patrick Rosal, Lisa Russ Spaar, and Alexandra Teague.
NeW & Forthcoming
An Optimism by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Against our terribly ambivalent present—in which Black, trans, and other minoritized forms of life seem at once more possible than ever and, also, relentlessly under attack—An Optimism gives us poems in search of ways to survive—and even thrive.
The Hungriest Stars by Carey Salerno
With language flush with and supercharged by Eros, Carey Salerno's The Hungriest Stars is a poet’s elegy to her uterus, her love letter penned in an overcrowded room to autonomy and desire.
Universal Corner by Mitchell L.H. Douglas
From the author of dying in the scarecrow's arms, new poems powered by the twin musical engines of punk and Hip-Hop.
SOFAR by Elizabeth Bradfield
“Some poets take nonhuman nature as just one more subject; for Bradfield, however, plants and animals—Atlantic seascapes, tropical forests, marine mammals, migratory seabirds—give most of her poems their reason to exist...”
—Stephanie Burt, American Poet
Lost Cities by Valencia Robin
Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin’s second collection are both a walking tour of local neighborhoods and a journey into space and across time.
Amerigun by Anne Marie Macari
In her heartrending sixth collection of poetry, Anne Marie Macari communes with a brother decades gone and calls out a gun-obsessed America has enabled countless similar deaths.
NEWS & Updates
Theo LeGro, author of Don’t Let It Kill You, winner of the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, passed away in March following her long, brave battle with breast cancer. In their poetry, Theo contended that merely persisting in living isn’t brave. But it is, and they were. We are honored to be publishing Theo’s collection, which comes out on June 2 and can be preordered here.
Theo was a Kundiman fellow. You can read a lovely tribute to them here on the Kundiman web site.