Suzanne Burns
Look at All the Colors Hidden There
Galileo Press, 2025
$16.42
Playlist:
If anyone on Spotify wants to hear an actual playlist that went along with the years of our tumultuous getting together, it is called “The Innocent Warmth of June Impending.”
Poems read:
“Blood She Must Have”
“Celestial Mechanics”
“Small Town”
“The Night Before the Elopement”
Ching-In Chen
Shiny City
Airlie Press, 2025
$18
Playlist:
Shiny City examines the “real” and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown. Documentary poems are juxtaposed with speculative poems of a shiny city of the global future. Both experimental and narrative, these poems juxtapose found texts with a singular kind of imagining: through a wild love, and despite an incomplete and fragmented archive, Shiny City reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks. This book was first inspired from my involvement in the Save Our Chinatown Committee, a grassroots committee of community members who organized to protect Riverside’s Chinatown archaeological site from development.
Susan Michele Coronel
In the Needle, A Woman
Finishing Line Press, 2025
$22.99
Playlist:
“In the Needle, A Woman" traces a woman's life shaped by inheritance, loss, and longing—from childhood through marriage and its unraveling. The poems grapple with the complexities of the mother–daughter bond and weight of Jewish lineage, testing what is carried forward and what is left behind. Turning toward repair, the collection uses poetry to stitch together what has been torn, and claims a life shaped on one’s own terms.
Poems read:
“Younger Daughter Resists Tradition"
“A Long Needle Was Inserted Into My Belly to Extract the Truth”