My debut poetry collection West Portal is now available for pre-order here! Winner of the 2020 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, the book will be out in the world this July, and features a beautiful foreword by contest judge and beloved poet and teacher Gabrielle Calvocoressi. Of the collection, Eduardo Corral says, “In West Portal, ravishing beauty and ravenous grief braid into utterly lucid and breathtaking poems. The language—deftly scored on the page, rippling with tenderness—radiates with the hushed warmth of an intimate conversation. Ben Gucciardi’s first book has the lyrical depth of a second or third book. It’s an astonishing debut.”