Wave Books

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in...

Recorded live in Los AngelesMatthew Rohrer’s simple, hilarious, generous, and strangely disquieting poems conjure versions of the most familiar aspects of our lives—friendship, marriage, childhood, work—into which intrude incongruous, peculiar,...

After their Fall 2002 whirlwind tour supporting their book of collaborative poems, Nice Hat. Thanks, these acclaimed poets return with a collection of the finest new poems created live as they rambled high and low. Covering such topics as hillbillies,...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***Written with keen perception and insatiable curiosity, Chris Nealon's fifth book of poetry, All About You, is both a study of...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***This collection from Cedar Sigo, All This Time, pays homage to artistic influences that have shaped his poetic practices. Lyrical...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***Body & Glass extends Koeneke’s experimentations in Ertruria with a tightly woven set of more compact poems that brighten and...

Recorded live in Los Angeles. Read by Dolores Dorantes in Spanish.From Mexican-born poet Dolores Dorantes, Copy is a book-length prose poem examining extrication, refuge, and reintegration. Through deconstructed dictionary entries and powerfully...

Recorded live in Los Angeles"Melding images of natural timelessness with appearances from contemporary culture, Koeneke's collection is easily enjoyed by the well-seasoned bard and poetic neophyte alike."—BookslutEtruria is a diverse collection of...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***With exquisite detail and humble sensibilities, Geoffrey Nutter’s sixth collection of poetry offers myriad delights in language...

Recorded live in Los AngelesHardly War, Don Mee Choi's major second collection, defies history, national identity, and militarism. Using artifacts from Choi's father, a professional photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she combines memoir,...

Recorded live in Los AngelesWhether it's addressing the grotesque in daily scenes or upsetting the norms of professional culture, Joe Wenderoth's fifth collection, If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep, resonates with his signature intellect and...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***In Michael Earl Craig’s sixth book, poems resonate with an inscrutable logic that feels excitedly otherworldly and unsettlingly...

Recorded live in Los AngelesLanguage Arts, like Cedar Sigo, is playfully spontaneous. Sigo uses poetry as a way to record his own adventures as a reader, traveler, lover, poet, friend, and he welcomes the reader to share the experience. The pleasure...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***In Lovers of Today, Garrett Caples is his most playful and heartfelt. Here are poems that generously place the reader in a...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***Poems that break language apart from the inside. Brolaski's third collection combines Latin, pop culture, etymology, politics, and...

Recorded live in Los AngelesPoet, novelist, and Fence founder Rebecca Wolff’s internal monologue made external in poetry is uncanny. Her musical and darkly funny fourth collection, One Morning—, spans language, culture, art history, love, passion,...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***With breathtaking fervor, Sandra Simonds delivers an extended address to Orlando, which stands as both a city marked by vibrant...

Recorded live in Los AngelesTake It is a gift of expansive and expressive generosity. The poems masterfully combine traditional and contemporary concerns and speech in attending to a degraded, yet wondrous world. Author - Joshua Beckman. Narrator -...

Recorded live in Los AngelesMichael Earl Craig furthers his existential, Lynchian leanings with masterfully composed new poems. He has borrowed the everyday and returned it defamiliarized, dark, and droll. Readers are ushered out of their contemporary...

Recorded live in Los AngelesTimothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation, the long-awaited second collection by Columbia University professor and poetry editor of Boston Review, is an absolute tour de force, fully investing itself in the possibilities of...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***Matthew Rohrer's latest collection explores the space between wakefulness and sleep, that drowsy loosening of consciousness called...

Recorded live in Los AngelesThing Music is full of flesh, of creatures tangled in their worlds. Marked variously by the desert and coastal landscapes of Southern California and the intersections of phenomenology and anarchism, these poems are porous...

Recorded live in Los Angeles"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever...

***This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.***Highly anticipated poems from beloved contemporary poet Dara Barrois/Dixon (née Dara Wier).In her latest collection, Dara...