Danzirly is a stunning bilingual poetry collection that considers multigenerational Latinx identities in the rapidly changing United States. Winner of the Academy of American Poets' Ambroggio Prize, Gloria Muñoz's collection is an unforgettable reckoning of the grief and beauty that pulses through twenty-first-century America.

Deuda Natal finds the beauty within vulnerability and the dignity amidst precariousness. As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life—and for language—can create a space of poetic decolonization. The poems in Deuda Natal propose new ways of understanding as they traverse a thematic landscape of women’s labor, the figure of the nomad and immigrant, and the return from economic exile to confront the catastrophic confluence of disaster and disaster capitalism. The poems in Deuda Natal reckon with the stark environmental degradation in Puerto Rico and the larger impacts of global climate change as they navigate our changing world through a feminist lens. Pastor’s work asserts a feminist objection to our society’s obsession with production and the accumulation of wealth, offering readers an opportunity for collective vulnerability within these pages. For this remarkable work, Pastor has found unique allies in María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong, the translators of Deuda Natal. Winner of the 2020 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets, this collection showcases masterfully crafted and translated poems that are politically urgent and emotionally striking.

“There are some poets we admire for a mastery that allows them to tell a story, express an epiphany, form a conclusion, all gracefully and even memorably—yet language in some way remains external to them. But there are other poets in whom language seems to arise spontaneously, fulfilling a design in which the poet’s intention feels secondary. Books by these poets we read with a gathering sense of excitement and recognition at the linguistic web being drawn deliberately tighter around a nucleus of human experience that is both familiar and completely new, until at last it seems no phrase is misplaced and no word lacks its resonance with what has come before. Such a book is Austin Segrest’s Door to Remain. Ranging between Atlanta, Georgia, and the Eternal City of Rome, these poems offer a poignant chronicle of haunting by a mother who is simultaneously present and absent even before her death. The centerpiece of the book is a poem in nineteen sections entitled ‘Majestic Diner’ that strives to answer its own epigraph, from George Herbert: ‘My God, what is a heart?’ Elsewhere, the poet writes ‘Humankind / cannot bear to be cheated out of our most guarded truths,’ paraphrasing T.S. Eliot’s dictum that ‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality,’ and part of what makes this book memorable are the clear-sightedness and charity with which those truths are anatomized.”—Karl Kirchwey, author of Poems of Rome and judge

Most archaeologists and historians of the ancient Near East have focused on the internal transformations that led to the emergence of early cities and states. In The Uruk World System, Guillermo Algaze concentrates on the unprecedented and wide-ranging process of external expansion that coincided with the rapid initial crystallization of Mesopotamian civilization. In this extensive study, he contends that the rise of early Sumerian polities cannot be understood without also taking into account the developments in surrounding peripheral areas. This new edition includes a substantial new chapter that explores recent data and interpretations of the expansion of Uruk settlements across Syro-Mesopotamia.

Poets for Harris is a collective of poets from across the United States committed to protecting artistic freedom and supporting the historic campaign of Kamala Harris for president. All net profits from sales of this book will be donated to VoteRiders. A few hours after President Biden announced he would not be seeking re-election and Vice President Kamala Harris was named his preferred candidate, Win With Black Women, led by founder Jotaka Eaddy (and author of the foreword for this collection), kicked off an organic tsunami of volunteer organizations with a historic 44,000-strong Zoom call. Win With Black Men, White Women: Answer The Call!, White Dudes for Harris, Comics for Kamala, Cat Ladies for Kamala, and many more soon followed. San Francisco Bay Area poets Liz Cahill and James Morehead, during a break at a local open mic, asked the question: “Where are the poets?” And Poets for Harris was born. Like many of the over 100 grassroots organizations, Poets for Harris started from nothing more than an idea and the determination to do something. Fast forward to Sunday, September 15, the 61st anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, and an extraordinary lineup of poets took to a virtual mic for a nearly four-hour livestream event, viewed (as of this writing) by nearly two thousand people. Even more poets participated online by contributing videos, which were shared thousands of times on social media. This book builds on that event with contributions from Pulitzer Prize nominees and finalists, poets laureate, and authors, including: Poets for Harris is a collective of poets from across the United States committed to protecting artistic freedom and supporting the historic campaign of Kamala Harris for president. All net profits from sales of this poetry anthology will be donated to VoteRiders. Contributing poets include: Lauren K. Alleyne, Regina Harris Baiocchi, Carmine Di Biase, Tennison S. Black, Tabitha Bozeman, Clarise Annette Brooks, Dustin Brookshire, Liz Cahill, Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Tina Cane, Kai Coggin, Nick Courtright, Brennan DeFrisco, Lenny DellaRocca, Lauren Ducrey, Cornelius Eady, Regina YC Garcia, Ella Gordon, Salaam Green, Carol Guess, Jared Harél, Judy Ireland, Patricia Spears Jones, Mike Jurkovic, Ben Kline, Dorianne Laux, Matthew Layne, Morgan Liphart, Elise Liu, Jennifer Martelli, Donna Masini, Tyler Mills, James Morehead, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Lisa Mottolo, Gloria Muñoz, ayodele nzinga, Donald Platt, Maya Raveneau-Bey, Victoria Redel, J.R. Rice, Jessica Sabo, Lisa Marie Simmons, Susannah Winters Simpson, Kelsey Stancliffe, L.J Sysko, Pamela Wax, Steven Willis, and Emanuel Xavier.