Stephanie Pacheco’s love for poetry first began at the middle school lunch table, where students often broke out into freestyle poems. “In New York, we're big on lunch table cyphers,” she says.

The way to read Frederick Seidel’s “Selected Poems” is to remove the dust jacket, light a match and torch it. It’s not that the jacket is unattractive.

Poetry Selected Poems EVAN JONES Grand Parade Poets, $26.95. Alan Wearne's Grand Parade press has published some colourful poetry since its inception in 2011.