Danielle Hanson
The Night Is What It Eats
Codhill Press, 2026
$18.00
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The Night Is What It Eats explores several interlacing themes: saints complaining about their Heaven, body parts disassembled and put to use in a surrealistic bending of reality, elegies to animals loved and unloved, magical realist poems and odes to nature and natural forces. It is the world we live in, but dismantled and reassembled. Parts of the whole are set free, like St Lucia’s eyes, to see the world on their own.
Poems read:
“Abisko, Sweden, 2016”
“Venice, 1991/2016”
“St Denis in the Afterlife”
“St Agnes in the Afterlife”
Lisa Rosenberg
Weeds and Stars
The Word Works, Hilary Tham Capital Collection, 2026
$20
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“Altogether ravishing.” Maria Popova hails Lisa Rosenberg’s Weeds and Stars as “the finest reverie of reality since Diane Ackerman’s The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral, with the feeling-tone of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and the sensibility of astronomer-poet Rebecca Elson’s A Responsibility to Awe. The rhythmic, formally varied poems of Weeds and Stars explore kinship, uncertainty, transformation, and resilience throughout natural and built worlds—feather to fire, plants to politics, Old Glory to accretion disks.
Poems read:
“Sun, Flower”
“Dear Neighbor”
“Herbarium: Cobra Lily” “Herbarium: Pineapple Weed”
“Urchin”
former DMQ Review contributor
Melody Wilson
Madre Dura
Lily Review Books, 2026
$18.00
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Madre Dura is my first full-length collection of poetry and was inspired when a reader asked me why I never wrote about my mother. I suppose this is my answer. The poems in this book look at motherhood, diminishing ethnicity, growing up unsupervised, mothering, and a little bit of romantic love. I was thrilled that Madre Dura received Lily Poetry Review’s Paul Nemser Prize, but I’m also pleased that it provided a place for my relationship with my mother to grow—even after all these years.