About the Poets: Forrest Gander, born in the Mojave Desert, lives in California. A translator/writer with degrees in geology and literature, he’s received the Pulitzer Prize and Best Translated Book Award. Gander’s has been a signal voice for environmental poetics. His book Twice Alive focuses on human and ecological intimacies. In October 2024, New Directions will bring […]

Engage with new poems on feminism and humanity from lauded poets Joan Larkin and Alicia Ostriker. Joan Larkin’s latest, Old Stranger: Poems (Alice James Books, 2024), reckons with all of the moments that shape a woman’s life, and the many shapes a woman’s life can take—from mother to daughter to trauma survivor to feminist—asking the reader to contend with whether we can […]