Timothy Donnelly, The Cloud Corporation (Wave Book)
Timothy Donnelley is poetry editor for Boston Review and teaches at Columbia University; this is his second collection of poetry.
Paul Legault, The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn)
Paul Legault holds an MFA in creative writing and a BFA in screenwriting. He is the winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Prize, and his poems have been published in theDenver Quarterly, Pleiades, and other journals.
Priscilla Becker, Stories That Listen (Four Way Books)
Priscilla Becker, whose first book of poems, Internal West, won The Paris Review Book Prize, has written an astonishingly precise second collection, Stories That Listen. These poems attempt to come to terms with absences personal and global.