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New Poetry Titles (9/16/25) Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/16 from McGill-Queen's University Press, Plamen Press, Lithic Press, Black Sun Lit, Caitlin Press, University Of Iowa Press, Morgan James Publishing, Red H...

New #poetry #books from University of Iowa Press, @redhenpress.bsky.social, Tin House Books, Persea, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, Nightwood Editions, Coach House Books, @boa-editions.bsky.social, New Directions & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"Owed to My Father's Accent", a poem by Ally Ang
https://spare.poems.com/poem/owed-to-my-fathers-accent/
via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

🎉 Happy Pub Day to ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES by Iain Haley Pollock 🎉 A candid collection on violence, racial justice, and what it means to be American.
🔗 ORDER NOW: bit.ly/possiblebodies

I've been rereading @estherwslin.bsky.social's Cold Thief Place since January when I got an early copy from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. It's already one of my favorite books.

Thanks for sharing this poem from my forthcoming book Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) 🌝

So proud to celebrate @estherwslin.bsky.social and her stunning debut COLD THIEF PLACE, just longlisted for the 76th National Book Awards! 🌟 A rare honor for a first collection + a testament to Esther’s extraordinary voice. Congrats to Esther and all this year’s nominees! 💐📚 #NBAwards

Big congrats to DeeSoul Carson, named a 2025 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellow! 🎉 And cheers to Sarah Ghazal Ali, a finalist this year—AJB is so proud to publish you both! Learn more: buff.ly/KWx91wz 🌟

Cover of OLD STRANGER POEMS: JOAN LARKIN a painted enigmatic mask portrait Selbstportrat" by Paula Modersohn-Becker (1906-7)

Mozart Songbook Outside on Fremont Ave., black snow and no such thing as a white wig or a lovestruck violet who sings his heart out. My lungs ached, huge with breath and the harsh sweetness of strange words. Veilchen, Madchen -- my brother spoke them to show how my tongue was a gate that could open secrets. He pressed keys partway, to draw softest sounds from the upright, and what he loved I loved. That was my whole faith then.

For the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #4 I read Joan Larkin's latest work Old Stranger. Enigmatic image-driven poems, interior/sense memory, haunting works. From @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social #LGBTQAI #poetics

📣 We're hiring! AJB seeks a part-time Production Coordinator (20–25 hrs/wk) in New Gloucester, ME. Join our team & help bring books to life! 2–3 yrs experience preferred. Must commute 2+ days/wk.

📚 Details: bit.ly/AJBSubmit
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🎉 Happy Pub Day to SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein! A luminous debut exploring transition, illness, and the body as a site of transformation—spiritual, physical, and public. Out now from Alice James Books: bit.ly/saint-conseq...

Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social, with readings by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Shelby Handler.
✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby
📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq
#SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse

Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

#poetry

Saint Consequence by Michael M. Weinstein — Alice James Books Michael M. Weinstein's poetry collection, SAINT CONSEQUENCE, published by Alice James Books

SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein is on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list!

This collection from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social is “a book of 21st century transits … towards the culture and language of Russia, out of one gender and into another.”
www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/sa...

Two Poems by Esther Lin Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Esther Lin for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.

“My petitioner is interested in sex. / His distinguishing feature is a hibiscus tattoo. / My petitioner’s mother dislikes me. / Her son would never marry someone like me.” — @estherwslin.bsky.social, “Ms. L— Describe Your Petitioner” @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/536048/two-p...

I Don’t Want To Be Understood by @sadqueer4life.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ‬⁩

#poetry #transpoetry

FREELAND by Leigh Sugar — Alice James Books Leigh Sugar's poetry collection, FREELAND, published by Alice James Books.

Leigh Sugar’s debut poetry collection “dramatizes what it’s like to stand on the outside looking in ... to live within a love confined by the state.” —Edward Hirsch

FREELAND (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #DisabilityPrideMonth: www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/fr...

Matthew Nienow, If Nothing WHAT LUCK I lived. Lived again. Wrecked, hungover. Swerved in the dark from river back to bunk and never hit a tree. Never was pulled ...

Matthew Nienow, If Nothing / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/matt...

R. A. Villanueva

Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang (Alice James Books) — Alice James Books Ally Ang's poetry collection, LET THE MOON WOBBLE (Alice James Books)

@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social is currently having a 30% off and buy-two-get-one-free sale through tomorrow if you want to preorder Let the Moon Wobble! www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/le...

Three books on a paisley print chair: FISH WIFE by Alysss Kathleen McCanna, MAKING A LIVING by Rosalie Moffett, and MOTHERSALT by Mia Ayumi Malhotra

New book mail! @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social @blacklawrence.bsky.social

"I hear what we are meant for
outside this room."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Here by Jean Valentine from Light Me Down - The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (2024 @AliceJamesBooks.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/dex2wank

#BefriendaBook to support 1 of 11 upcoming AJB titles by funding editorial, production, or promotion 📚 Each donation enters you to win signed copies of all 11 books — a full shelf of poetry from debut and award-winning voices! Give now → bit.ly/BefriendaBook

Sneak peek from Andrés Cerpa's THE PALACE, coming in Jan 🌟

Leigh Sugar, Freeland INHERITANCE In 1920, my grandfather received an American name: Zucker to Sugar , now my own last name.  The Third Reich never tatto...

Leigh Sugar, Freeland / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ;
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Look who’s in Poets & Writers! 🎉
Honored to see @leighsugar.bsky.social‬'s FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work.
More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫

Thrilled to welcome @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social‬ back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌
Expansive poems on memory, theory & time.
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Grateful for early love for ‪@leighsugar.bsky.social‬'s FREELAND:

✨ @electricliterature.com interview on love, prison & poetry
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⭐ Bear Review: “a work of obsession & analysis”
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📝 @phillychapbook.bsky.social:‬ “Ars Poetica” + note
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Thanks for reading 📖

Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Mothersalt Like an object from space, birth language is a sign of alien life: Mucus plug. Meconium . Also the language of newborns, with its twisted ...

Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Mothersalt / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ;
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I Was Undocumented for 21 Years. This Is Why I Tell My Story "I laugh when one of my poems emerges especially dark. It’s dark because I was truthful," writes Esther Lin.

A short essay I wrote on writing poetry while undocumented. Many thanks to @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social and @timemagazine.bsky.social

@estherwslin.bsky.social‬'s essay, “I Was Undocumented for 21 Years,” is now in TIME Magazine. Her story of living without status from age 4 to 27 arrives at a crucial moment.

Esther is the author of COLD THIEF PLACE, published by AJB in March 💛

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