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Listen to Bill Berkson read “The One God” from his new collection “Expect Delays.”

Sarah Rose Nordgren reads "The Performance" from her debut collection, "Best Bones." When she wrote the poem, she was thinking about self-inflicted violence and women.

When Thomas Dooley was writing his poem "Aunt Peggy," he was preoccupied with understanding forgiveness.

Saskia Hamilton reads her poem "Once" from her new collection, “Corridor.”

Bill Berkson’s poetry isn’t known for one particular style, and his newest collection, “Expect Delays,” captures that variety. He describes it as a “sense of scatter.” The book showcases different approaches and writing styles, varying between abstract and concrete, related experiences and unrelated. It’s his first book since his 2009 “Portrait and Dream,” which collected 50 years of work. Through the process of editing that collection, Berkson began to see the full range of his writing and for the first time, he says he let himself take pleasure in it.

Ellen Bass reads her poem "Relax" from her new collection "Like a Beggar."

Thomas Dooley’s debut collection of poems, “Trespass,” deals with the duality of vulnerability and forgiveness via the narrative of a family.

Sarah Rose Nordgren, whose debut collection “Best Bones” was published at the end of September, has often been talked about for her surrealistic storytelling style, but she doesn’t see it that way.

Listen to Alison Powell read her poem “The Fields” from “On the Desire to Levitate," Powell's debut collection of poetry.

“Mimi’s Trapeze,” a new book by J. Allyn Rosser, starts with a quote by Balzac in the original French. The poet translates it roughly as, “what an appalling condition in which every happy moment depends on an ignorance of some sort.” Or in other words, ignorance is bliss.

Many of the poems in “Red Juice” deal with a concern for globalization and sustainability. “You can see that progression in the book, that there is more and more urgency around the concern about financial collapse, concern about environmental collapse, concerns about disaster and surviving,” said the poet.

David Roderick spent a year traveling abroad, in search of poetic inspiration. In Japan, he wrote prose poems, a form he hadn’t previously explored. In Ireland, he became “enamored” with composing ballads, and in Italy, he used art as inspiration for his verse.

The poetry in “The Infinitesimals” invites the reader to look into their own past and think on what it is to experience loss.

“The spirit of the book is a lot about passing through or passing by different lives and landscapes,” says Saskia Hamilton of her new collection, "Corridor."

We've taken our environment for granted for centuries and now we're at a point of "crisis." That is the driving theme in “Nude Descending an Empire,” the new collection by Sam Taylor published in August, which he was inspired to write during the presidency of George W. Bush.