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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
Soul Cake by Lisa Russ Spaar
The poems in Lisa Russ Spaar’s seventh full-length collection wrest from their rich, sumptuous, surprising lexicon flashes of dread, beyonding, and gnosis.
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.
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.
Arguments by Benjamin Gucciardi
Winner of the 2025 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award
“Poems to make you think and cry and maybe love.”
—Rebecca Solnit
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
From hospital rooms to dive bars, Don't Let It Kill You by Theo LeGro confronts the complexities of loss and mortality with ferocity and wit. With language that refuses to flinch or flatter, these poems tells the truth about sickness: How boring it is. How brutal. How sacred. The poems do not seek to inspire. They do not resolve. They testify.
NEWS & Updates
Acclaimed poet Patrick Rosal has been named the 2026 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
Per the Guggenheim’s website, “The Poet-in-Residence program seeks to create poetic experiences that deepen public engagement with the museum, its architecture, and its collections, while fostering a sense of community and shared experience.”
Rosal is the author of five full-length poetry collections (all with Persea), including The Last Thing: New & Selected Poems, which won the William Carlos Williams Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His next collection, Prayers from the Protosonic, will be published in May 2027.