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Brandon Shimoda wrote this short poem after encountering a lost migrant in the Arizona desert.

Lyn Hejinian’s sonnet proposes that liberation might be found in scattering and disorientation.

A poem that overlays love onto a previously loveless surface of the world.

In this poem from a Palestinian American writer, absence becomes atmosphere.

The easy way of seeing the world begins to look like a socially convenient illusion.

An evocation of motherhood as negative capability.

In her new book, “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts,” the poet Crystal Wilkinson explores her family history through cooking and recipes.

In four new collections, a frank look at disability, a celebration of domestic life (and dogs), a gathering of hushed moments and a clutch of myth-inflected reveries.

The poems in Mary Jo Bang’s latest collection, “A Film in Which I Play Everyone,” are full of pleasure, color, sound and light — but also torment.

David Gate has a popular following online, but his best poems suggest he’s not entirely comfortable as an influencer.