Les Portes featured in Ms. Magazine’s “Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026”

We love to see Meredith Nnoka’s debut, Les Portes, featured in Ms. Magazine‘s “Reads for the Rest of Us: The Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026”!

Winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, this collection poses the question that propels the collection: “Where is the path forward / that ensures no recurrence?” Rather than gesture toward resolution, Les Portes dwells inside this question, and what emerges is not consolation but an immense reckoning.

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