Modern Poetry

FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2024 HEARTLAND BOOKSELLERS AWARD FOR POETRY Diane Seuss’s signature voice—audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its attitude—has become one of the most original in contemporary poetry. Her latest collection takes its title, Modern Poetry , from the first textbook Seuss encountered as a child and the first poetry course she took in college, as an enrapt but ill-