Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in March 2025 from CLMP members.
Acre Books | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946724-87-8
This debut poetry collection “examines queerness, mental illness, and transgender identity through the lens of thrillers and B movies.”
Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus by Jack Saebyok Jung
Black Square Editions | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 979–8–986037–01–1
This poetry collection is a “five-part poetic journey that moves from intimate personal memory to expansive reflections on culture, war, politics, and myth.”
Hard Bargain by Heather Treseler
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-54-0
According to Willard Spiegelman, Treseler is a “calm anatomist of many things—family, suburbs, ordinariness, human love in its multiple manifestations, museums, ancient Rome—but the surface of her poems covers often startling, deep, painful, even murderous depths.”
When We Only Have the Earth by Abdourahman A. Waberi
Translated from the French by Nancy Naomi Carlson
African Poetry Book Fund | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-4962-4135-1
In this collection, “lyrical, playful, and moving poems urge us to look for the truth and beauty hidden in our daily lives, singing of Waberi’s own enduring love for our endangered planet.”
Tupelo Press | March 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-16-9
This book length essay-in-verse is “inspired by mycelia, the fungal networks thriving beneath us, exploring how the processes of grief nourish new life.”
For the Loneliness of Walking Out by Sheila Black
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-47-2
According to Melissa Kwasny, this poetry collection is a “book sweetened with exquisite images of what the poet loves in this life and full of the longing, if not bitterness, that comes with inevitable loss—lost childhoods, lost neighborhoods, lost romance, lost youth.”
Trash Witch by Martha McCollough
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-46-5
According to Jody (Pamela) Stewart, this poetry collection “with its layered investigation of both old and upcoming selves, its testing of hearts and mind, is a vibrant layering of the ‘speaker’s’ past (and future?) debris.”
You Are Here to Break Apart by Meghan Sterling
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-45-8
According to Betsy Sholl, the poems in this collection are “one part elegy, one part excavation, and a third part exorcism, as she recalls childhood summers in rural Tennessee, dense with vegetation and heat, cattle, corn, and family secrets.”
Beyond the Watershed by Nadia Alexis
CavanKerry Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-09-3
This collection of poetry and photography “explores the various experiences of a Haitian American daughter and her Haitian immigrant mother.”
Selected Poems of Jaime Gil de Biedma — If Only For a Moment (I’ll Never Be Young Again) by Jaime Gil de Biedma
Translated from the Spanish by James Nolan
Fonograf Editions | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8987589052
According to Robert Fernandez, Nolan’s “translations of Gil de Biedma offer a timeless source of encouragement for all who endure repression and tyranny.”
Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Red Hen Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-230-5
In this poetry collection, Deming “extends her exploration of the meanings of nature into the tensions of our political and ecological moment.”
Unsolicited Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-956692-91-4
According to TaraShea Nesbit, Gaddis “creates a tender, bittersweet story, keeping the light on for all that we have lost,” writing “through the lens of motherhood, marriage, and infertility.”
Proceed, Sergeant Lamb: The Continuing Saga of Sergeant Lamb During the American War of Independence by Robert Graves
Seven Stories Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64421-318-6
This second novel in a two-book series “continues the fictionalized account of the adventures of Sergeant Robert Lamb, an Irish soldier who fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War.”
WTAW Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9877197-1-8
In “dream-like vignettes,” this memoir “captures Liz Green’s desire for belonging, grasped only in fleeting instances at restaurant tables.”
If I Had Said Beauty by Tami Haaland
Lost Horse Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-8-9
This poetry collection “explores the possible narratives and distant origins of what lies behind a sense of self—including recent and ancient DNA, recessive and dominant traits, mitochondrial underpinnings, and an intricate microbiome.”
We’re Gonna Get Through This Together by Z. Hanna
Modern Artist Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964403-00-7
In this debut short fiction collection, Hanna “writes incisively about race, class, gender, sexuality, art, and activism—exploring the forces that bring people together and drive them apart.”
Lonesome Ballroom by Madeline McDonnell
Rescue Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9886839-0-2
According to Leni Zumas, this novel is a “magnificent dive into film, fashion, feminism, motherdom, and the manifold performances that make up a life.”
Orison Books | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949039-54-2
This book-length essay is an “account of the author’s thirtieth birthday aboard a sailboat as it makes its way from Nantucket Harbor to Menemsha Harbor.”
Bending Light with Bare Hands by David B. Prather
Barclay Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-155-5
This collection of poems is a “direct response to Covid lockdown and all the insecurities and frustrations that accompanied compulsory isolation.”
Optional Practical Training by Shubha Sunder
Graywolf Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-324-7
According to Publishers Weekly, this novel following a young Indian woman in the US “coheres into a crystalline portrait of a woman straddling cultures and expectations while attempting to discover who she is.”
Deep Vellum | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-356-8
This novel-in-verse “tells the story of Lua Mater, an obscure Roman goddess who re-imagines herself as an assassin coming to terms with an emerging performance artist identity in the late-20th century.”
Hollywood Cemetery by David Trinidad
Green Linden Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-06-4
According to James Allen Hall, this poetry collection is “dishy and soapy—any movie buff’s must-have—but beyond that, Trinidad also considers themes of death and memory.”
Graywolf Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-326-1
This poetry collection explores “the collective trauma and resilience experienced by Hmong people and communities, the ongoing cultural and environmental repercussions of the war in Vietnam, the lives of refugees afterward, and the postmemory carried by their descendants.”
String Theory / Teoría de cuerdas by Karen Villeda
Translated from the Spanish by NAFTA
Cardboard House Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-34-5
According to Erín Moure, this autobiographical poem “disentangles the present-absence of a woman, the sister of a parent, a life extinguished before Villeda was able to speak and understand.”
Big Money Porno Mommy by Catherine Weiss
Game Over Books | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915566-0-6
This poetry collection “explores the author’s complex relationship to sex and power from childhood through adulthood, and how this tenuous balance relates to her decision to not become a mother.”
Midwest Futures: Poems & Micro-Stories from Tomorrow’s Heartland
Middle West Press | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1953665324
In this mixed-genre anthology edited by Randy Brown, “30 emerging and established voices of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror tell fresh new narratives of environmental and social transformation set in the American Midwest.”
Akashic Books | March 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63614-201-2
According to editor John Freeman, this short fiction anthology invites readers “into a variety of houses and apartments and spaces all over Sacramento, to imagine lives, not yours, or perhaps like yours, as told by some of the city’s most talented living writers.”
Flood Editions | March 5, 2025
ISBN: 979-8985787474
According to Publishers Weekly, this reprinted book-length poem “begins and ends with the U.S. space program, reaches back to ancient Egypt and the myth of Eden, and stops to acknowledge the author’s own native Kansas.”
The Latest: 20 Ghazals for 2020 by Denise Duhamel and Julie Marie Wade
Small Harbor Publishing | March 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-42-4
In this poetry chapbook, “the pandemic, the U.S. election, gun violence, and the loss of feminist icons Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Helen Reddy forefront a series of collaborations in which the two poets face isolation together.”
Potomac Fever: Reflections on the Nation’s River by Charlotte Taylor Fryar
Bellevue Literary Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1954276345
According to Library Journal, this book is “for readers looking for a different lens through which to view the U.S. capital and to see both the ugly impacts of racism and the beauty of nature.”
Finding Serenissima by Apple Gidley
Vine Leaves Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-135-0
This novel is a “heartwarming tale of second chances, exploring the complexities of long marriage, independence, and rediscovering love in the most unexpected places.”
Many Miles by Rosa Sophia Godshall
Small Harbor Publishing | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-46-2
In this poetry collection about the loss of her brother, Godshall “reflects on childhood dysfunction and her own spiritual identity in search of a way forward.”
Ar:range:ments by Esther Kondo Heller
Fonograf Editions | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-39-0
In this mixed-genre collection, Heller “creates textual & visual language that escapes the page to utter and speak past the record, the archive, and the document.”
Green Linden Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961834-05-7
In this poetry collection, Jones “has moved increasingly from the lyric grounded in the everyday to a kind of magical realism where he sees in daily life transformations all around, as if a curtain has parted or he has touched the hem of some great mystery.”
My Therapist Says This Grief Journal Is a Good Idea by Andrew Katz
Lanternfish Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-941360-85-9
In this novel, “KJ fills his therapist-recommended grief journal with plenty of sarcasm, excerpts from sweary, punny high-school short stories, and fourth-wall-breaking asides.”
Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin
Alice James Books | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-70-9
According to Javier Zamora, Lin’s debut poetry collection is “not only a timeless and necessary addition to immigrant literature around the world, but an automatic induction into the American canon.”
Don’t Take This the Wrong Way by Kim Magowan and Michelle Ross
EastOver Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-958094-56-3
According to Dana Diehl and Melissa Goodrich, the stories in this collection “are sharp-toothed, playful, trippy introspections on the mundane insanity of office-life, the gluey-soup of dating, the casual cruelty of childhood.”
Four Days in Algeria by Clarence Major
Red Hen Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-178-0
In this collection, Major depicts “adventurous encounters with ordinary life rendered through poems of dazzling agility and fearless bluntness.”
At the Window, Silence by Kenneth Pobo
Barclay Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-156-2
This poetry collection is “divided into two sections, one that focuses on the interior world, life in a house or memories of life in various places, and one that focuses on the exterior world, particularly that of the garden.”
Deep Vellum | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-358-2
This debut novel is “an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and endurance during the waning days of the American whaling industry.”
Still Water Carving Light by Peggy Shumaker
Red Hen Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-168-1
In this poetry collection, “intimate snapshots of everyday life depict the quiet resilience of those left behind, inviting readers who have experienced loss to connect deeply with their own emotions.”
London Calling New York New York by Peter Silverton
Trouser Press Books | March 12, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9898283-5-7
According to Don Letts, this book “unpacks how Sinatra and the Clash shaped their cities—and how those cities in turn shaped their iconic songs, recorded at the same time but worlds apart.”
Unusual Fragments: Japanese Stories
Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles, Brian Bergstrom, Margaret Mitsutani, Lucy North, and Philip Price
Two Lines Press | March 11, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949641-75-2
According to Alexandra Kleeman, these five short stories by Jeffrey Angles, Taeko Kono, Nobuko Takagi, Takako Takahashi, and Tomoko Yoshida “are each a little pocket universe of the eerie and uncanny, places in which to get deliciously lost.”
Bone Valley Hymnal by Taylor Franson-Thiel
ELJ Editions | March 14, 2025
Inspired by the landscape of Utah, the poems in this collection “present compelling connections between science, gender, faith, and myth-making.”
Concerning the Angels by Rafael Alberti
Translated from the Spanish by John Murillo
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-42-7
In this translation of Spanish poems first published in 1929, Murillo “has given new life to what many consider Alberti’s magnum opus and delivered our marching orders for the resistance the future will require.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-26-7
This poetry collection “transcribes a true emergency in the poet’s direct sight—wilderness and civilization smoldering alike in the California wildfires.”
Red Wilderness by Aaron Coleman
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-24-3
Coleman’s poetry collection “interpolates American history with his own family’s legacy, reflecting on national identity, Blackness, taboo, faith, and remembrance while enacting a multigenerational chorus of poems that stretches back to the Civil War.”
Willow Hammer by Patrick Donnelly
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-30-4
Donnelly’s poetry collection is a “sequence of poems that fans out kaleidoscopically upon learning, twenty years afterward, that his stepfather assaulted his sister.”
No Small Thing by Gabriel Fried
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-34-2
According to Patrick Phillips, this poetry collection is “filled with wry wit, and formal dexterity, and grit, as Gabriel Fried moves from the joys and losses of mid-life, to the underworld of childhood, and back again.”
After the Operation by Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr.
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-40-3
Gray’s poetry collection “reports from the No Man’s Land she wandered following eight hours of surgery to remove a brain tumor.”
One More World Like This World by Carlie Hoffman
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-28-1
This poetry collection is a “lyrical study of contemporary life—its lines echo amidst the imbalanced interdependence of globalization, in the wake of third-wave feminism, and from the active collapse of our American empire.”
Airlie Press | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-950404-16-2
According to Maggie Millner, this poetry collection “ponders and parses the Roman Empire—with its walls and conquests, artworks and origin myths—sifting the ruins for clues as to how to live, grieve, and speak in the present.”
Reality Checkmate by Daniel Ruiz
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-38-0
According to Tomás Q. Morín, Ruiz “tackles reality itself, nimbly assembling and reassembling what we think we know in order to move us toward a greater, more profound feeling” in this poetry collection.
There’s Nothing Left for You Here by Allegra Solomon
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-44-1
The short stories in this collection are “joined by their keen attention to the lives of contemporary young women of color” and “feature an eclectic cast of characters who are as fascinatingly complex as they are deeply relatable.”
The Fire Passage by Lisa Wells
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-36-6
This book-length poem “recontextualizes biblically scaled plagues as the entropic catastrophes of our late-stage capitalist society.”
A Magnificent Loneliness by Allison Benis White
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-22-9
The poems in this collection “represent White’s attempts to comprehend the individual suffering of being alive, and to metabolize the grief of women’s epidemic disappearance, literal and spiritual, through sickness and despair.”
Building the Perfect Animal: New and Selected Poems by C. Dale Young
Four Way Books | March 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961897-32-8
The poems in this collection “explore the author’s simultaneous embrace of mortality’s richness and resignation to death’s inevitable decay.”
Wings and Whispers: Tales of Friendship, Volume 1 by Kaelen Felix
Prolific Pulse Press | March 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962374-36-1
This children’s book consists of “stories about friendship filled with vivid and detailed illustrations of the many animals that learn to live together and encourage each other in Lily Brooke Swamp.”
Fonograf Editions | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-964499-48-2
In this poetry collection traversing European cities, Almallah “encounters the impossibility of being a Palestinian, left alone in a world full of sympathizers and enemies.”
Vine Leaves Press | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-137-4
This thriller novel “explores the intense, often unspoken, struggles of new motherhood and the complexities of human fallibility, raising an unsettling question: Does one irreversible mistake define you forever?”
I Want You to Know by Mona Damluji
Seven Stories Press | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64421-441-1
According to Aya Ghanameh, this poem with illustrations by Ishtar Bäcklund Dakhil “offers young readers a meaningful way to explore the complexities of family heritage, displacement, and the lasting effects of war.”
Crosshatch: Martha Schofield, the Forgotten Feminist (1839–1916) by Christina Larocco
Blackwater Press | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963614-08-4
In this biography “the feminist Martha Schofield emerges as a complex character, and also a complicated one—a perfect foil for our deeply complicated times and a brilliant companion for Larocco’s own most elegant mind,” according to Beth Kephart.
City of Smoke and Sea by Malia Márquez
Red Hen Press | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-9639528-3-7
According to Andromeda Romano-Lax, this is a “delightful and inventive novel of hidden roots, unseen worlds, magical alliances, and personal reinvention, bringing the many layers of Los Angeles to life.”
Variations in Blue by Adela Najarro
Red Hen Press | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-274-9
The poems in this collection “cycle through the traumatic residue of dysfunctional relationships, the complexities of Latinx representation through a series of ekphrastic poems, and reimagine Nicaragua as a homeland set in a volcanic landscape.”
Graywolf Press | March 18, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-328-5
According to Literary Hub, this essay collection “about listening to music while running” is a “meditation on the ways in which we can deepen our connection to even the things we imagine we understand the best.”
The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World by Ted Levin
Green Writers Press | March 20, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9891784-2-1
According to Tom Junod, this memoir “does not just invent a beautifully refurbished language for the close observation of nature; it turns the close observation of nature into an act of moral witness in a threatened world.”
Just About Anything: New and Selected Poems by Jonathan Aaron
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN:978-0-88748-713-2
According to Rosanna Warren, the poems in this collection “both show and recount how the ordinary can slip at any moment into the unsteady worlds of legend and dream.”
Aristotle’s Wife by Claudia Barnett
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88748-712-5
Each short play in this collection “explores an imagined moment in the life of a little-known scientist sidelined by gender.”
Goat-Footed Gods by Kathleen Driskell
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88748-708-8
In this poetry collection, Driskell “seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of the infamous Goatman of Pope Lick, identified by The Washington Post as one of the deadliest cryptids in America.”
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88748-709-5
This poetry collection is “anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance, and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations that draw from the Church’s canonical hours of prayer as collected in a breviary.”
Angel Sharpening Its Beak by Michael McGriff
Carnegie Mellon University Press | March 21, 2025
ISBN: 978-0-88748-710-1
This poetry collection “searches for meaning at the intersection of surrealism, place, and poverty in rural America.”
The Confines by Anu Kandikuppa
Veliz Books | March, 23 2025
ISBN: 9781949776188
The short stories in this debut collection “deliver us into the cultural expectations, hierarchies, and taboos that define and limit our lives, especially the lives of women.”
Golden Threads by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Ayin Press | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961814-21-9
This book for middle-grade readers “will take people of all ages on a journey into the multi-faith world of Morocco’s craftspeople, inspiring generative conversations about art, labor, community, and technology for years to come.”
Yuck: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia by Barret Baumgart
Wandering Aengus Press | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 979-8218515751
According to Erik Davis, this “ode to the Joshua tree—part poetry, part cultural history, part confrontation with a Mojave mystery—deftly honors one of the Southwest’s most compelling and symbolically rich inhabitants.”
For Now, We Have Been Spared by Gary Fincke
Slant Books | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63982-193-8
The poems in this collection “reflect the uncertainty of living through a pandemic—not only in terms of the immediate threats to the body, but also the tectonic shifts in how we perceive the nature of existence itself.”
Marisolandia by Michelle Cruz Gonzales
WTAW Press | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9877197-1-8
In this speculative novel, “the new Republic of California is forcing Marisol, a Mexicana woman, to marry a white man to create a homogenous race in the new nation.”
Omer Calendar of Biblical Women by Jill Hammer
Ayin Press | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961814-20-2
This illustrated guidebook is an “exploratory, mystical, and feminist companion for the traditional Jewish practice of counting the Omer.”
Stories from the Edge of the Sea by Andrew Lam
Red Hen Press | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-242-8
The short stories in this collection “explore love and loss, lust and grief, longing and heartbreaks through the lives of Vietnamese immigrants and their children in California.”
Lamentations of Nezahualcóyotl: Nahuatl Poems by Nezahualcóyotl
Translated from the Nahuatl by Ilan Stavans
Restless Books | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63206-386-1
This collection of fifteenth-century poetry from the famed Aztec ruler is “brimming with anguish and longing” and depicts a “young warrior and his journey from exile to historical legend.”
Creature Publishing | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951971-25-0
This debut novella “explores predatory family dynamics, the boundaries of bodies and home, and how individuals choose to participate in or push back against structures that would harm them.”
Dreams Like Thunder by Diane Simmons
Story Line Press | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-58654-301-3
In this novel taking place “on a small Eastern Oregon farm between Baker and Hells Canyon,” a family “seems less in touch with the 20th century than with the myth of their own pioneer past.”
Utopians In Love by Bob Sykora
Game Over Books | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915566-5-1
The poems in this collection “hope to ask what we actually can learn from the utopian dreams and failures of the past as we attempt to build a better world in the present.”
Tick… Tick… Tick… by Steve Zettler
Vine Leaves Press | March 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-139-8
In this speculative novel, “the future of the planet is on a stopwatch, and Harlan is the one person capable of preserving humanity.”
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 26, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-56-4
According to Le Hinton, this poetry collection is an “astonishing offering to the world,” and “each poem explores grief in its countless incarnations.”
Between Latitudes by Michelle Latvala
Green Writers Press | March 26, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904801-8-6
This debut poetry collection is “rooted in both the practice of forging a life in the boreal forest of Alaska and finding footing in contemporary California.”
The Shepherd’s Hour by Rikki Santer
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 26, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-53-3
This poetry collection “showcases Santer’s poetic virtuosity as it explores her cultural inheritance as a Jewish woman raised in the mid 20th century in America’s heartland.”
self-portrait as vanishing act by Leslie Ullman
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 26, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957755-55-7
According to Nance Van Winckel, in this poetry collection “pieces of the self—as museum relics, thrift store objects, even recurring dreams—assemble and reassemble themselves.”
How We Enter the Palace by Michelle Blake
Green Writers Press | March 27, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9891784-7-6
This poetry collection includes “persona poems in the voices of Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena, Helen Keller, and other characters who have shown up along the way.”
Blues for the Buffalo: A Luis Montez Mystery by Manuel Ramos
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89375-008-9
In the latest installment of the Luis Montez Mystery series, “a chance encounter with a woman who goes missing leads to the attorney’s involvement in an enigmatic case.”
Stories, Tales, and Fables by Marquis de Sade
Translated from the French by R J Dent
Contra Mundum Press | March 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-940625-72-0
The first English translation of Sade’s short works is “an introduction for those who are not yet familiar with the work of this controversial French literary innovator.”
The Search Committee by José Skinner
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89375-007-2
In this novel, Skinner “writes darkly comedic scenes with an insider’s understanding of university and border life and the narco violence that has disrupted them.”
Postcards to Herself: A Prose Poetry Novella by Laura Stamps
Prolific Pulse Press | March 31, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962374-37-8
This prose poetry novella is “about a woman, her love of Holly, her Yorkshire Terrier, and a very fun and interesting life.”