Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in April 2025 from CLMP members.
The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa
Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
Archipelago Books | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781962770200
According to Jessica Payn, in this novel Agualusa “consistently treats Angolan history and identity with the lyrical experimentalism and unabashed weirdness of the surrealist.”
Hills Full of Holes by Dan Alter
Barclay Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-157-9
According to Judy Halebsky, this poetry collection “examines the land as an extension of our physical selves, our journey through physical space and also excavating the layers of history, conquest, and urban development.”
The Eating Knife by Ayelet Amittay
Barclay Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-154-8
This debut poetry collection is an “exploration of personal and intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Akedah, the story of the sacrifice of Isaac.”
Second Nature by Chaun Ballard
BOA Editions | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145529
This debut poetry collection “weaves childhood experiences, historical events, and family stories into a living tapestry of memory that celebrates the landscape of Black America, both rural and urban.”
Worthy of the Event: An Essay by Vivian Blaxell
LittlePuss Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964324-99-5
“Set against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s,” this essay “takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai’i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind.”
Jambu Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9780982467329
Edited by by Virginia Barrett, this anthology “aims to capture some of the many ways poets, writers, and visual artists perceive and respond to blue in all its various names and shades.”
The Last Beast We Revel In by Noah Davis
CavanKerry Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-10-9
The poems in this collection “balance revery, mourning, lust, and love while wading the rivers and meandering through the deep hollows of Appalachia’s enduring landscape.”
What to Wear Out by Jen DeGregorio
Get Fresh Books Publishing | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798218545635
According to Tina Chang, this poetry collection is a “fiercely perceptive journey through the complexities of girlhood and womanhood, oftentimes devastating in its exploration of personal and societal grief.”
Nostalgia for the Future: New and Selected Poems 1984-2024 by Gregory Djanikian
Green Writers Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904801-5-5
According to Mark Halliday, Djanikian’s “generously readable poems help us feel that life is livable, full of ache but also of possibility.”
Fearless Vampire Killers: The Bad Brains Photographs by Glen E. Friedman
Akashic Books | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781636142081
This photography book “uniquely features almost every single Glen E. Friedman photograph of the Bad Brains, considered by many music fans to be the greatest and most influential American punk rock band of all time.”
A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America’s Disabled by Alex Green
Bellevue Literary Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1954276420
This book recounts “the rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America’s first public school for mentally disabled people.”
You Crushed It by Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard
Translated from the French by Neil Smith
Book*hug Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669313
This novel centering a stand-up comedian is a “devastating critique of the soft underbelly of toxic masculinity and the complicated ferocity of those who protect it.”
Applause for a Cloud by Sayumi Kamakura
Translated from the Japanese by James Shea
Black Ocean | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1939568-99-1
In this poetry collection, Kamakura “transforms the haiku into a contemporary vehicle for exploring life’s most intimate moments and vast mysteries.”
Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday’s News: A Philadelphia Story by Beth Kephart
Tursulowe Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957057-19-4
This historical novel “evokes 1918 Philadelphia, a city of war and racism, women’s rights and women’s work, the ferocious paralysis of a bloody race riot, and a flu that will prove to be more deadly than the war.”
The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian
Red Hen Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781636281933
“Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale,” this novel “tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War.”
Unsex Me Here by Aurora Mattia
Nightboat Books | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781643622705
According to Publishers Weekly, Mattia “dazzles with this genre-spanning collection of stories about queer and trans characters navigating desire and love.”
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
Graywolf Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-336-0
This essay collection is a “portrait of a time, an anarchic party rich with wild guests, a window into Nelson’s own development, and a testament to the profound sustenance offered by art and artists.”
Get Fresh Books Publishing | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798218522544
The poems in this collection “reflect on the Passaic, an 80-mile long river coursing through prime New Jersey real estate in counties that run the gamut from affluence to working class.”
Tupelo Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-21-3
According to Annie-B Parson, “the sounds in her dreams, her dailiness, and the wrath of the gods combine in a poetic logic that is both irrefutable and moving” in Paty’s poetry collection.
A Field of Telephones by Zach Savich
53rd State Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8986581477
This cross-genre poetry collection “re-envisions what scholarship can offer during times of crisis in the humanities and in our own lives.”
Realistic Fiction by Anton Solomonik
LittlePuss Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781736716885
According to Xtra, “Solomonik’s trans stories are not a plea for acceptance—they are bold and bizarre and tender and confrontational.”
My Own Dear People by Dwight Thompson
Akashic Books | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781636141916
This novel follows a teenager “trying to come to terms with his own place in multiple worlds: in his family; at school, with its colonial Eurocentric ethos; and within the religion and politics of Montego Bay and the city’s criminal gangs.”
The Harmattan Winds by Sylvain Trudel
Translated from the French by Donald Winkler
Archipelago Books | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781962770224
According to Rumaan Alam, this novel is a “beguiling fairy tale of a book, indebted as much to Bellow’s Henderson as it is to the immortal Peter Pan, a slender novel of the great adventure that is growing up.”
Graywolf Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-330-8
According to Skylar Miklus, in this poetry collection “the scenery of Colorado comes alive on the page: chickadees sing, honeybees flit, lilies blossom.”
Daughter Days by Julia Wendell
Unsolicited Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-34-5
In this collection spanning Wendell’s career, “poems selected from her previous six books are combined with newer poems, as well as excerpts from her memoirs, Finding My Distance and Come to the X.”
Maiden Mother Crone by Madeleine F White
Sea Crow Press | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1961864245
“Taking its cues from the older, more matriarchal nature of Celtic and Nordic traditions,” this poetry collection “offers magic and mysticism, abuse and reconciliation, power and perception and faith and feminism.”
Get Fresh Books Publishing | April 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798218623302
This debut poetry collection “deals with the loss of Wilson’s father in a tragic car accident as a child, the sexual abuse he survived as a young teenager from his step-father, and how these events have affected his romantic relationships with men as a Black, gay man.”
Anything and Its Shadow by Lucie McKee
Green Writers Press | April 3, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904801-9-3
In this poetry collection, McKee “writes from a place of patience and continual curiosity, both for her own presence in the world and for the nuances of the vastness that lies beyond her intimate awareness.”
Remember That One Time? by Larry Joe Campbell
Finishing Line Press | April 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-88838-826-6
In this novel, an out-of-work actor “begins to look at his own past and the decisions he has made that have led him to being alone over the holidays, reflecting and wondering if his marriage can be saved.”
Hub City Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9798885740463
Anderegg’s debut novel is a “darkly beautiful, unflinching novel about modern girlhood in the internet age, the daily toll of trauma, and the limits of love.”
No One Knows Us There by Jessica Bebenek
Book*hug Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669399
According to Liz Howard, Bebenek “lays bare death processes, grief, and resilience with a documentarian’s eye” in this poetry collection.
The Heart Decided to Move by Melanie Bell
Read Furiously | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781960869197
This mixed-genre collection “captures the author’s transformative journey as she takes the life-changing step of relocating to a new country.”
Perpetual Law by Mario Bellatin
Translated from the Spanish by Stephen Beachy
Deep Vellum | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781646053384
This novel “beckons to engage with the reality of borders, linguistic exile, and the types of self-estrangement that can barely be articulated.”
I Love Shopping by Lauren Cook
Nightboat Books | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781643622866
This short fiction collection “invites its readers to inhabit a world just like ours, reflected through a big, benevolent funhouse mirror.”
Translated from the Chinese by Jacqueline Leung
Two Lines Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781949641769
In this dystopian novel, “a government program incentivizes couples to ‘conjoin’—surgically attach themselves to one another—promising a flourishing economy, ecological revitalization, and personal fulfillment.”
The Worried Well by Anthony Immergluck
Autumn House Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681039
This book of poetry is a “tragicomic collection that explores the intersection of anxiety and safety in a chaotic world.”
Lonely Women Make Good Lovers by Keetje Kuipers
BOA Editions | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145451
In this collection, “astonishingly intimate poems of marriage collide with the fetishization of freedom and the terror of desire.”
Python with a Dog Inside It by Max McDonough
Black Lawrence Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781625571755
This poetry collection set in southern New Jersey “traces the tangled story of two gay brothers as they endeavor to survive their mother’s erratic and escalating violence.”
Blood Wolf Moon by Elise Paschen
Red Hen Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282084
These poems grapple with “a dark period of American history, ‘The Reign of Terror,’ when outsiders murdered individual members of the Osage for their oil headrights.”
Gathering the Pieces of Day by LeeAnn Pickrell
Unsolicited Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-38-3
This book is a “collection of 52 poems, one for each week of the year,” acting as a “reminder to pay attention to each cup of coffee, each encounter, each song, each bite of food, each moment of the day.”
Baobab Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-936097-56-2
According to Roseanna Alice Boswell, the poems in this collection “move across time and space as the speaker explores and interrogates identity, sexuality, family history, and intergenerational trauma.”
A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father by Gonçalo M. Tavares
Translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn
Dalkey Archive | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 9781628975987
“Amid a landscape of rubble, skeletal figures, and helplessness in Europe post-World War II, a girl and a man wander among the ruins” in this novel.
Second Set Chances by Rachael Wesley
Vine Leaves Press | April 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-141-1
This novel “challenges us to consider what happens when the life we’re living clashes with the one we secretly dream of.”
Daffodils in December, Poems from an Unexpected Life by Alice Bingham Gorman
Fleur-de-Lis Press | April 10, 2025
ISBN: 9798218628543
In this collection, Gorman’s “beautifully crafted poems take readers from the poet’s early childhood to her eighties.”
Eating Turtle by Alexis Stratton
Harbor Editions | April 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-47-9
According to Jackson Culpepper, “these five essays travel not only through India and Korea, Taiwan and Australia, but also through grief and the shadow of death, through shifting gender identity, relationships that last and those that fade.”
The Sound of Her Good Name by Candace R. Curran
Slate Roof Press | April 11, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89292-162-6
This poetry collection contains “truth telling, piercing perceptions of human behavior, and fierce momentum.”
Black Holes and Their Feeding Habits by Kiyoko Reidy
Terrapin Books | April 11, 2025
ISBN: 9781947896819
According to Carlina Duan, the poems in this collection “breathe portals into familial care, inherited violence, intergenerational loss, and the natural landscapes within and around us.”
Chomp, Press, Pull by Elaina Battista-Parsons
Vine Leaves Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-143-5
According to Jocelyn Mackenzie, this essay collection “hits right to the core, conjuring smells of grandma’s kitchen and summoning the feeling of scratchy shag carpet on a hot summer’s day.”
Good Morning, Space by Linda Bondestam
Translated from the Swedish by A. A. Prime
Yonder | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781632063830
This children’s book features “abundant humor, interactive cutouts, and plenty of Easter eggs for those with a curious eye.”
When the Horses by Mary Helen Callier
Alice James Books | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1949944716
According to Literary Hub, Callier’s “crisp marriage of sentence and line sings across the psychic landscapes of childhood and into elements of desire made slant.”
The Way of Wildfires and hard luck believers by Brian David Cinadr
Wet Cement Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9918692-2-5
According to Dana Stevens, Cinadr “writes with the heat and energy of the Santa Ana winds, creating a compelling LA story of danger, love and redemption, as a man finds the courage to sift through the ashes of his broken heart.”
supreme night by Keith Donnell Jr.
Black Lawrence Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781625571571
In this poetry collection, “the troubles of double consciousness and anti-Black violence recede into the temporary haven of night.”
Tiny Little Landslides by Grace Evanoff
Wet Cement Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9918692-0-1
According to Sylke Rene Meyer, Evanoff “delivers a collection that defines a generation caught between irony and inadequacy” with these essays.
I Have Not Considered Consequences by Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681046
This flash fiction collection “delves into the complexities of grief, desire, and a peculiar intersection between humans and bears.”
Airlie Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950404-16-2
This debut poetry collection “weaves in and out of Rome, taken as a figure for empire, ruin, and the seductions of both.”
jump the gun by Jennie Malboeuf
BOA Editions | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145413
The poems in this collection “uproot the hidden recesses of life, the stages and struggles of womanhood, and our continual fight against violence, both internal and external, in the U.S. today.”
The Equestrian Turtle and Other Poems / La tortuga ecuestre y otros poemas by César Moro
Translated from the Spanish by Leslie Bary and Esteban Quispe
Cardboard House Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-35-2
Originally published in Lima in 1957, this poetry collection is an “oblique chronicle of the poet’s relationship with the Mexican army officer Antonio Acosta.”
stay with me by Hanne Ørstavik
Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken
Archipelago Books | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781962770187
In this novel, Ørstavik “unravels the binds that fasten us to those we love — why we return despite immeasurable pain, and why we finally, justly, leave.”
Red Hen Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781636281728
These poems “investigate what unites us—how the personal is political and the political is personal—attempting to change our perceptions to heal our families, friendships, and country of incivility and villainization by practicing greater compassion.”
Sky Responds to Our Holler by Zenaida Peterson
Game Over Books | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915566-6-8
According to Desireé Dallagiacomo, this poetry collection “sings in the spectacular and achy home where hope and despair meet, page after page is a devotion that eclipses sorrow but refuses to forget it.”
Soiled with Earth, Drunk on Air by Sibila Petlevski
Translated from the Croatian by Sibila Petlevski
Sandorf Passage | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9789533515274
The poems in this collection “predicted the fear and isolation of the global pandemic lockdown, while also offering up a strategy to overcome these hardships through understanding people as a part of nature.”
Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition by Paul B. Preciado
Graywolf Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-332-2
This book is a “mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry, and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility.”
Graywolf Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-334-6
According to Chris Kraus, this poetry collection “explores the contours of something essential, diving deep into pain and complexity and describing them in the most factual way.”
Yellow Chrysanthemum by Munmun Samanta
Prolific Pulse Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962374-39-2
According to Nolcha Fox, this short story collection is a “treasure chest of joy and strength that springs from the neglect, abuse, betrayal, and invisibility of 20 women.”
Anything You Want by Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno
Wet Cement Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9918692-1-8
According to John Ninso High, the poems in this collection “wander through the realms of birth and death, loss and abundance, radical acceptance and on further through the smallest miraculous details of tenderness for how we live with and help one another.”
What Is Given by Brit Washburn
Wet Cement Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9883840-9-0
According to Sebastian Matthews, this poetry collection is “part daybook on living a meaningful life, part phenomenological treatise,” and “a field guide to the interior.”
Re: Wild Her by Shannon Webb-Campbell
Book*hug Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669337
In this poetry collection “artistry and nature are intertwined, speaking to the sensual musings of lovers in Paris, driftwood and death cycles, and the rise of wild swimming and cold dipping.”
Depth Control by Lauren W. Westerfield
Unsolicited Press | April 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-956692-94-5
This book is an “experimental exploration by an essayist, aiming to make sense of and reflect on personal identity, belonging, and the choices that shape us.”
Trouser Press Books | April 16, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9898283-7-1
This coming-of-age novel “focuses on the creative process, the devotion required to choose an uncertain life in music, the inspiration for songwriting and the challenge of making the rent while making art.”
Translated from the Italian by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard
World Poetry | April 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-29-1
This collection by one of Italy’s significant post-war writers “asks how poetry can document lived experience while dialoguing with the Petrarchan sonnet tradition.”
Fearless Now & Nameless by Jon Davis
Grid Books | April 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781946830319
In this poetry collection, Davis “directs his keen eye toward the ironies on which this life so often depends—the failures of language, the violence of nature, the indifference of death.”
Translating Blue by Sherre Vernon
Poetose | April 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64672-363-8
This poetry collection explores “language, identity, and love, and considers how even in a lifetime of challenge and heartbreak one can find something beautiful in this life.”
Black Ocean | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1965154-03-8
“Through interweaving prose and verse,” this collection “resurrects two figures from myth: Cardea, goddess of hinges, and Echo, the nymph transformed into reflective sound.”
Show Me Where the Hurt Is by Hayden Casey
Split/Lip Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-952897-43-6
The stories in this collection are “about love and grief, anchored in brokenness—broken people, broken relationships, broken systems—and the obsessions and insecurities that prevent us from revealing ourselves to one another.”
New Door Books | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7355585-7-8
According to Booklist, this novel is an “engaging, briskly told tale of self-discovery, mother-daughter dynamics, and the complicated bonds of unsettling personal truths.”
Ecobloomspaces: Poetry at the Intersection of Social Identity and Nature, Environment, and Place
Iron Oak Editions | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9896084-2-3
This anthology—edited by Ken R. Harmon and featuring poems by Dare Williams, Hannah Bonner, Genevea Toldan, C. T. Salazar, and more—explores “the relationships among socially constructed identities, geographies (space/place), dynamic movement, nature and the nonhuman world.”
Apparent Breviary by Gastón Fernández
Translated from the Spanish by KM Cascia
World Poetry | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-34-5
These 100 poems by the twentieth-century Peruvian writer are “notable as much for their silences as what they say, their use of negative space as a counterweight to speech, and the hallucinatory effect of their sequence.”
dormilona by Connie Mae Oliver
Burrow Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9781941681343
This collection is a “bilingual book of poetry exploring dream states, distance, and the rituals of sleep.”
night myths • • before the body by Abi Pollokoff
Red Hen Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9781636281971
This debut poetry collection “illuminates the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every day: identity and expectation, self-preservation and doubt, freedom and entrapment, wildness and cultivation.”
Love and Resistance by Nizar Qabbani
Translated from the Arabic by Rana Bitar
Fernwood Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-158-6
The poems in this collection have been “selected for their breadth of representation, their influence in the Arab world, and their poetic prowess.”
Translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine
Dalkey Archive | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9781628975802
“Transgressing genres and genders,” this novel is “among the most daring achievements of postmodern Latin American fiction.”
Unsolicited Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-33-8
These poems “weave together the personal, political, and global, revealing the hidden and overlooked amid the ordinary.”
Wild Cucumber: New and Selected Poems by Ann Spiers
Empty Bowl Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9798991740036
These poems “explore the islands, beaches, and volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest; the canyonlands of the Southwest; and visits to Mexico and Thailand.”
Rodeo by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Autumn House Press | April 22, 2025
ISBN: 9781637681022
In this collection, Wilkinson “carries her readers through sorrow and confusion, reckoning with seismic losses such as a stillborn son and strained relationships, alongside more abstract and existential pains.”
This Natal House by J. L. Conrad
Harbor Editions | April 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-49-3
In this chapbook, “the story of children coming into being is also the narrative of a mother’s disintegration, as pregnancy sets off ongoing experiences of hypermobility and chronic pain.”
I Remember Lights by Ben Ladouceur
Book*hug Press | April 24, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669351
According to Loghan Paylor, Ladouceur “has crafted a raw, intimate portrait of queer desire and resilience against the well-researched and cunningly detailed backdrop of Expo 67 and 1970s Montreal.”
Apotheosis of Music by Witold Wirpsza
Translated from the Polish by Frank L. Vigoda
World Poetry | April 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-31-4
“Reveling in spoof, buffoonery, the grotesque, paradox, hyperbole, and nonsense,” this collection of poems “employs every poetic means to undermine our propensity to take what is being said at face value.”
Wake Forest University Press | April 28, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-943667-07-9
In this poetry collection, a “dramatically charged lyricism links environmental understanding with an emotive exploration of human experience and potential.”
BOA Editions | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145475
In this poetry collection, alexandra “invites readers into a world bristling with family, memory, home, and inheritance—all in the wake of dislocation and fracture.”
Best Literary Translations 2025
Deep Vellum | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781646053735
This anthology edited by Noh Anothai, Wendy Call, Öykü Tekten, and Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún “redefines the canon of global literatures in English translation, showcasing the brave and brilliant work of contemporary translators and editors.”
Nightboat Books | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781643622736
This poetry collection is a “pulpy, mytho-poetic dispatch from an ‘anarchist jurisdiction’ that explores the liberatory possibilities of community and womanhood.”
Vine Leaves Press | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-145-9
This novel “strikes all the right chords for anyone who’s ever wondered if it’s possible to reclaim their dreams—and the people—they left behind.”
The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguín
Red Hen Press | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282718
In this short story collection, “historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.”
Game Over Books | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781643622736
According to Isabelle Correa, this poetry collection is a “lamentation of loneliness and loss with a witty distrust of self-help culture.”
Restless Books | April 29, 2025
ISBN: 9781632062277
The seven plays in this anthology by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Hansol Jung, Martyna Majok, Mona Mansour, Charlie Oh, Mfoniso Udofia, and Jesús I. Valles “herald a profound shift in what it means to be an American, an immigrant, and an artist on today’s stage.”
A Necklace of Ears by Alberto Roblest
Translated from the Spanish by Dillon Scalzo
Arte Público Press | April 30, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89375-009-6
This thriller novel “combines detailed descriptions with reflections on today’s society to graphically explore the reality of many hard-working migrants facing harsh conditions in the United States.”
Seesaw by Ken Tomaro and Nolcha Fox
Prolific Pulse Press | April 30, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962374-43-9
This collection is “poetry at its most spontaneous and fun, a reminder that even in life’s heavier moments, there’s always room to laugh, twist the narrative, and dance on the edge of meaning.”
The Chicano Documentary by Jesús Salvador Treviño
Arte Público Press | April 30, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89375-010-2
In this book, Treviño “examines the history of non-fiction cinema made by Mexican Americans from 1969 to the present.”
