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Danez Smith on Stage at Gala
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Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
Tracy K. Smith
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Questions 27 & 28
Questions 27 & 28
Karen Yamashita
Swirl & Vortex
Swirl & Vortex
Larry Levis, David St. John
Triage
Triage
Claudia Rankine
Earth 7
Earth 7
Deb Unferth
Autobiography of Cotton
Autobiography of Cotton
Cristina Rivera Garza, Christina MacSweeney
Attention-Seeking Behavior
Attention-Seeking Behavior
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
This Poor Book
This Poor Book
Fanny Howe
The Memory Museum
The Memory Museum
M Lin
Hide
Hide
Carolina Ebeid
City Like Water
City Like Water
Dorothy Tse, Natascha Bruce
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl
Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl
Mandy-Suzanne Wong
The Spoil
The Spoil
Maile Chapman
Overtakelessness
Overtakelessness
Daniel Moysaenko
Without Terminus
Without Terminus
chaun webster
Party Line
Party Line
Kyle Carrero Lopez
Outcast
Outcast
Oliver Basciano
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TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE WINS INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
Written by Yáng Shuang-zi and translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE has won the 2026 International Booker Prize. Read full story »
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Poetry Foundation and Graywolf Press Collaborate on New Book Prize
Recognizing poets 40 and older with a $10,000 prize and publication for their first or second book Read full story »

Citizen in the Classroom

Claudia Rankine's groundbreaking Citizen: An American Lyric and other books have inspired programming and sparked conversations in schools, universities, and communities across the country. (Photo credit: DP Jolly.)

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“A post-Romantic lyric autobiography, Diane Seuss's Modern Poetry, in reinventing the 19th- and 20th-century poetic canons, deconstructs how poems and poets are made, and what poems mean.”

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