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Books Launching in October 2024

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books published in October 2024 from CLMP members.

 

Cover of No One Knows Their Blood Type by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, featuring a black and white painting of three women sitting at a dinner table with a bird on it.No One Knows Their Blood Type by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat

Translated from the Arabic by Hazem Jamjoum

Cleveland State University Poetry Center | October 1, 2024

This “novel of Palestine centers its narrative not on the battlefield of history, but on how women live every day and the colonial context of their embodied lives.”

 

 

 

Cover of I want to start by saying by Samuel Ace, featuring the silhouette of a sea turtle photographed from below in black and white. I want to start by saying by Samuel Ace

Cleveland State University Poetry Center | October 1, 2024

This collection of essay, memoir, and collage is “a constellation of memory, personal and place-based histories, dailiness, repetition, art-making, and desire.”

 

 

 

Cover of Blindspot in America by Elom K. Akoto, featuring an orange and cream illustration of the back of a man on a dark teal background.Blindspot in America by Elom K. Akoto

Red Hen Press | October 1, 2024

This novel “gives a provocative depiction of some of the realities immigrants face in the United States—racism and discrimination—but also their hopes and faith in a country that promises freedom and opportunity to all.”

 

 

 

Cover of American Muse: Starlite Pulp Novellas by Starlite Pulp, featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam wearing a bandit mask and holding a gun on a charcoal background.American Muse: Starlite Pulp Novellas

Starlite Pulp | October 1, 2024

This collection of novellas features “two dark westerns by Brian Townsley and Jean-Paul L. Granier, and two gritty crime yarns by Manny Torres and Alex Slusar, all thematically linked by the search for the American Dream.”

 

 

 

Cover of Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf featuring an illustration of a blue rooster’s foot against a pink and yellow sky inside a frame.Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf

Nightboat Books | October 1, 2024

Baez Bendorf’s third collection “resounds through liminal spaces, at dusk and dawn, across personal meditations and wider cultural awakenings to form a collection overflowing with freedom, rebellion, mischief, and song.”

 

 

 

Cover of Gwenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk, featuring an Egon Schiele painting of a bearded man wearing a red coat against a lime green background with burgundy text.Gwenda, Rodney by Olivia Cronk

Meekling Press | October 1, 2024

This is an “exquisitely genre-ambiguous” book “about reading novels, ekphrasis, and the gaze, transcribed in a mode as ethereal as air filling a garment left to hang.”

 

 

 

 

Cover of Catbird by Julia Marie Davis featuring a cream background with black text and a crayon illustration of a gray bird in a nest.Catbird by Julia Marie Davis

Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 1, 2024

Set against the background of seasonal drama in the bird world, Davis’s novella “embodies the visceral response—angst and exasperating sense of helplessness inflamed by the distance between the will of the people and our national policy, and the bewilderment we feel—to the barbaric violence and violations of human rights happening in Ukraine.”

 

 

 

Cover of Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair by Hilary Giovale, featuring black and red text on a light blue background surrounded by mountains, flowers, and leaves.Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair by Hilary Giovale

Green Writers Press | October 1, 2024

This book “weaves the author’s personal story of transformation with historical research, spiritual teachings, and an appendix of practical skills, resources, and rituals.”

 

 

 

Cover of Arroyo Circle by JoeAnn Hart featuring a digital illustration of a shopping cart lying in a body of water with the shadow of a bird in flight above it.Arroyo Circle by JoeAnn Hart

Green Writers Press | October 1, 2024

Hart’s eco-novel “illuminates the spiritual connectedness of chance occurrences and weaves a powerful tale of strife, introspection, and reclamation.”

 

 

 

Cover of Exit Garden State by John Hennessy, featuring a black background with yellow text and a photograph of an orange flame.Exit Garden State by John Hennessy

Lost Horse Press | October 1, 2024

The speakers of these poems “explore the knots of familial experience, what it’s like to be both parent and child simultaneously, to be embraced by family as well as to lose it, to celebrate kinship and endure its sorrows and changes.”

 

 

 

Cover of Empty Me Full by Catherine Abbey Hodges, featuring black text on an abstract painting of a landscape.Empty Me Full by Catherine Abbey Hodges

Gunpowder Press | October 1, 2024

According to Donna Spruijt-Metz, Abbey Hodges “tenderly interrogates the workings of time,” traveling “with remarkable ease through the liminal corridors between life and death, how we remember, and what we can know.”

 

 

 

Cover of Television Fathers by Sylvia Jones, featuring a black and white photograph of a Black family sitting on a couch.Television Fathers by Sylvia Jones

Meekling Press | October 1, 2024

In this debut collection, Jones is “simultaneously reimagining the past and reveling in the absurd contemporary—her gaze never straying from social inequity, nor from the personal scales of fate.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans by Bill Knott featuring white text and a blue-tinted photograph of the back of a woman’s head.The Naomi Poems: Corpse and Beans by Bill Knott

Black Ocean | October 1, 2024

This new edition of The Naomi Poems brings the collection back into print after almost 60 years and features a new introduction by Richard Hell.

 

 

 

Cover of The Analog Body by Alexander Laurence, featuring white and brown text on a black background with an illustration of multiple brown and gray lines overlapping.The Analog Body by Alexander Laurence

Tofu Ink Arts Press | October 1, 2024

According to Jack Skelley, Laurence’s poetry collection “compiles decades of dreamscapes, deft allusions to the literary-pop canon and cubist-punk lab tests that go Ka-BLAM!”

 

 

 

Cover of The Majuscule Reader: The Best of the First Five Years, featuring black, red, and green text on a cream background.The Majuscule Reader: The Best of the First Five Years

Majuscule | October 1, 2024

This collection brings together 18 essays from the first 5 years of Majuscule’s existence on subjects “as varied as animation, corsetry, bulimia, Janet Malcolm, experimental storytelling, and reborn internet dolls.”

 

 

 

Cover of Toxemia by Christine McNair, featuring pink text on a black background with an illustration of a woman standing in a group of tall leaves and pink flowers.Toxemia by Christine McNair

Book*hug Press | October 1, 2024

This hybrid work of lyrical essays, prose poetry, photographs, and more “captures the wrenching feeling of loss of control in the face of an overwhelming medical diagnosis and the small, endless moments in life that underscore it.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Ogre’s Grimoire: Three Years of Red Ogre Review, featuring black text on a cream background, framed by black and red paint splatters.The Ogre’s Grimoire: Three Years of Red Ogre Review

Red Ogre Review | October 1, 2024

This collection collects Red Ogre Review’s first three years of poetry spanning magazine issues from October 2021 through September 2024.

 

 

 

Cover of A History of Echoes by Rod Carlos Rodriguez, featuring red text on a yellow background and a photograph of a large statue of a man’s face surrounded by vegetation.A History of Echoes by Rod Carlos Rodriguez

Gival Press | October 1, 2024

According to Mihir Shah, in this book Rodriguez “preserves the rich history of Taíno culture with incredible tact and tenacity in a compilation that is a clinic on narrative poetry.”

 

 

 

Cover of Army of Giants by Matthew Rohrer featuring large black text sideways on a cream background.Army of Giants by Matthew Rohrer

Wave Books | October 1, 2024

This collection of poems is a “diverse meditation on the ways in which the physical world intersects, overlaps, and informs the universe of the imagination.”

 

 

 

Cover of Storytellers’ True Stories About Family, featuring a photorealistic illustration of a suburban house at night with a lit porch that has chairs on it.Storytellers’ True Stories about Family

Chicago Story Press | October 1, 2024

This anthology of stories explores the many dimensions of family life, “whether it’s the joy of reconnecting with long-lost relatives, the strength found in supporting a loved one through illness, or the lessons learned from family conflicts and reconciliation.”

 

 

 

Cover of Ribcage of Time by Jacqueline Tchakalian featuring white text on a maroon background with an illustration of a plant that has white and green leaves.Ribcage of Time by Jacqueline Tchakalian

Red Hen Press | October 1, 2024

Tchakalian’s second poetry collection “is both intimate and universal in its scope of events—family life, birth, death, rape, abortion, genocide from a poet on the ledge of some eighty years of life with language fresh and unsettling.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Book of Losman by KE Semmel, featuring a black background with the title in large white text where the “O” is replaced by an orange geometric illustration of a brain.The Book of Losman by K. E. Semmel

Santa Fe Writers Project | October 2, 2024

The titular character of this novel “learns of a new drug designed to locate the root of his Tourette through childhood memories,” is “lured by promises of a cure and visits the mysterious lab that developed the drug.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Language of Light by Nancy Thomas, featuring a close-up photograph of blades of grass with dew on them in the sunlight.The Language of Light by Nancy Thomas

Fernwood Press | October 2, 2024

In these poems, Thomas “plays with common figures of speech in the English language, celebrates relationships with peculiar people, and attempts to approach growing older with courage and humor.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Escapades by Marie-Noelle Agniau, featuring peach text on a brown background and a light green illustration of a child riding a horse.The Escapades by Marie-Noëlle Agniau

Translated from the French by Jesse Hover Amar

World Poetry Books | October 3, 2024

Agniau’s English-language debut is a “surreal and haunting work of transfiguration and rupture inspired by Ovid’s Ocyrhoe.”

 

 

 

Cover of Mad Sisters by Susan Grundy, featuring peach text on a blue background with a pink and white crayon drawing of a woman with long hair and green eyes.Mad Sisters by Susan Grundy

Ronsdale Press | October 4, 2024

Grundy’s memoir tells the story of “a caregiver’s lifelong struggle to break through the barrier of her sibling’s mental illness in search of sisterhood.”

 

 

 

Cover of Collected Poems by Gerard Fanning, featuring a photograph of a hole in a teal cement wall that looks on to a body of water with smokestacks in the distance.Collected Poems by Gerard Fanning

Wake Forest University Press | October 7, 2024

This collection of Fanning’s four published books and one previously unpublished collection is “dense with allusions to American music and contemporary cinema, and equally attentive to Ireland’s eastern and western seascapes.”

 

 

 

Cover of Gay Poetics of the Passion by Luis Lopez-Maldonado, featuring a photograph of a man in a wedding dress holding a bouquet of flowers and a dagger.Gay Poetics of the Passion by Luis Lopez-Maldonado

FlowerSong Press | October 7, 2024

Lopez-Maldonado’s “complex collection of poemas and gay prayers” blends “genders, sexes, races, classes, and verdades to create an over-satisfying fruit-smoothie intended to fill, over-fill, and spill.”

 

 

 

Cover of Among the Crags of the Eyrie by Daniel Shapiro, featuring an illustration of two hawks flying against a background of snow-covered mountains.Among the Crags of the Eyrie by Daniel Shapiro

Dos Madres Press | October 7, 2024

According to Anthony Seidman, Shapiro “deftly showcases poems of personal experience alongside more hermetic and shorter verse, yet it is his assured voice that sweeps us up in his legacy of wind, sabbath wine, savannahs, even the Ostriches of Pasadena from yesteryear.”

 

 

 

Cover of Desire/Halves by Jai Hamid Bashir, featuring white cursive text on an orange background and an illustration of a blue snake interwoven with a photograph of a peeled orange.Desire/Halves by Jai Hamid Bashir

Nine Syllables Press | October 8, 2024

Bashir’s debut collection “navigates between English, Urdu, and Spanish, examining the interplay of these languages and the experience of being Pakistani-American.”

 

 

 

Cover of Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt featuring pink text on a cream background with a light blue raindrop pattern.Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt

Translated from the French by Susan Ouriou

Book*hug Press | October 8, 2024

Britt’s novel “asks what happens when one can no longer play a role—whether in a couple, family, or social structure—and exposes the resulting friction between pleasure and consequence.”

 

 

 

Cover of Coming Out Like a Porn Star, featuring an illustration of a person with long hair and their pants around their ankles coming out of a vagina.Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy

Feminist Press | October 8, 2024

Edited by Jiz Lee and originally published in 2015, the second edition of this anthology “includes new essays that explore issues transforming the modern porn field” and “a panoramic view of the world of sex work that has been described in recent years by Melissa Febos, Margo Steines, Charlotte Shane, and Michelle Tea.”

 

 

 

Cover of One As Other by Chard deNiord, featuring black text over a multicolored abstract painting with a black rectangle in its center. One as Other by Chard deNiord

Green Writers Press | October 8, 2024

According to Dzvinia Orlowsky, deNiord’s collection “points us past near-elegiac compassion toward a belief in infinite, beautiful sanctuaries.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies, featuring dark blue text on an orange background and a fragmented black and white photograph of a woman standing in front of the Eiffel Tower. The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies

Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer

New Vessel Press | October 8, 2024

According to Ruth Ben-Ghiat, this “haunting autobiographical novel shows that the Nazi occupation of France is not an event in the distant past but part of family histories and memories that still go unspoken.”

 

 

 

Cover of Deena Undone by Debra K. Every, featuring white text over two red-tinted photographs of a woman’s face combined at the center.Deena Undone by Debra K. Every

Woodhall Press | October 8, 2024

According to S. T. Joshi, this horror novel’s supernatural motif is “incorporated into a broader tale of searing domestic conflict fueled by love, betrayal, and hatred.”

 

 

 

Cover of Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt featuring a black and white photograph of a naked man lying on a bed. Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt

Nightboat Books | October 8, 2024

Pre-dating the British Sexual Offences Act of 1967, Hyatt’s novel “is a portrait of London’s Soho that is now lost, an important document of queer working-class life from a voice long overlooked.”

 

 

 

Cover of Little Ones by Grey Wolfe LaJoie, featuring an illustration of a gray gazelle whose top half is separated from its bottom half, with birds drinking water from its bottom half.Little Ones by Grey Wolfe LaJoie

Hub City Press | October 8, 2024

Informed by “Appalachian experience and traditions of Southern storytelling,” these “mischievous polyvocal tales are an exercise in audacity, in embracing the bizarre and carnivalesque within us.”

 

 

 

Cover of Arctic Play by Mita Mahato, featuring a pink background with illustrated gray, white, and black squares.Arctic Play by Mita Mahato

The 3rd Thing | October 8, 2024

This work of poetry and graphic narrative “conjures geographic and creative uncertainty as the necessary condition for navigating the climate crisis and its sorrows.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Holy & Broken Bliss by Alicia Ostriker, featuring an abstract painting with yellow, gray, pink, beige, and blue paint smudges.The Holy & Broken Bliss by Alicia Ostriker

Alice James Books | October 8, 2024

According to Publishers Weekly, “Ostriker confronts the intricate dance between spiritual despair and revelatory beauty in her ethereal 17th collection.”

 

 

 

Cover of Inner Verses by Pam Rehm, featuring small black text on a white background that resembles paper.Inner Verses by Pam Rehm

Wave Books | October 8, 2024

Rehm’s collection of lyric poems helps readers “experience a genuine devotion for both birdsong and breath, and the intimacies of thought connecting the two.”

 

 

 

Cover of Window Over Sink by Charles Springer, featuring white text over a blurry photograph of trees through a window covered in raindrops. Window over the Sink by Charles Springer

Fernwood Press | October 8, 2024

According to Michael Martone, this collection of prose poems “gives us tragedy, but also the whole Polonius litany of ‘tragical-comical-historical-pastoral-poem unlimited’ in this very real surreality.”

 

 

 

Cover of Beneath a Sky of Stone by E.B. Tolley, featuring gold text and an illustration of a man overlooking a light brown, dusty landscape.Beneath a Sky of Stone by E. B. Tolley

Woodhall Press | October 8, 2024

In Tolley’s debut novel, Ryan Shaw “learns that he has survived a fall of seventeen kilometers into the Earth’s crust and is trapped underground in the Republic of Inner Earth.”

 

 

 

Cover of Hungry Gods, and Other Matters of Conscience: Speculative Fictions by Heather Bourbeau, featuring a classical painting of multiple naked people in a garden wearing laurels and holding weapons. Hungry Gods, and Other Matters of Conscience: Speculative Fictions by Heather Bourbeau

Fabulist Editions | October 10, 2024

These short stories show us “a revolution launched by a slice of cake; an empath trained to avenge the genocidal crimes of her ancestors­; a balloon that can buoy a wounded soul into a new life of liberation.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Light That Burns by Jazra Khaleed, featuring a blurred black and white photograph of a person running on a sidewalk. The Light That Burns Us by Jazra Khaleed

Translated from the Greek by Peter Constantine, Viktoras Iliopoulos, Sarah McCann, Jason Rigas, Max Ritvo, Angelos Sakkis, Josephine Simple, Brian Sneeden, and Karen Van Dyck

World Poetry Books | October 10, 2024

Khaleed’s English-language debut is “an unapologetic indictment of the wrongs faced by immigrants, by a rudderless young European generation, by leftist activists in a Greece and a Europe blighted by neoliberal policies of deregulation and privatization.”

 

 

 

Cover of Endpapers by Jonathan Strong, featuring blue text on a white background and a rectangular abstract illustration of a wavy, multicolored arch pattern on a maroon background.Endpapers by Jonathan Strong

Grid Books | October 10, 2024

In Strong’s eighteenth published book, “youth and age come into close contact and understanding, even while made to cope with the concerns of a larger world.”

 

 

 

Cover of Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook by Zachary Cahill, featuring an expressionist painting of a unicorn and a skeleton against a dark blue background.Unicorn Death Moon: Paris Guidebook by Zachary Cahill

Red Ogre Review | October 11, 2024

According to Jacob Henry Leveton, Cahill’s collection of poems “marshals the imaginative to ground his reader in what is dark, fantastic, surreal, and magical.”

 

 

 

Cover of Near Strangers by Marian Crotty featuring a photograph of a hand with teal nail polish holding the railing of an escalator next to a figure wearing a brown jacket.Near Strangers by Marian Crotty

Autumn House Press | October 11, 2024

The eight stories in Near Strangers “center on resilient female protagonists and offer a view into queer life in America outside of its major coastal cities.”

 

 

 

Cover of Old California Strikes Back by Scott Russell Duncan, featuring an illustration of a fist holding a large jar with the head of a man with a mustache and long hair inside.Old California Strikes Back by Scott Russell Duncan

FlowerSong Press | October 14, 2024

Russell Duncan’s book is a “magical memoir and meta-novel that chronicles the journey of its mixed-race author—SRD—as he dismantles the myths surrounding Californios and the Chicano condition.”

 

 

 

Cover of Calendar by Dawn Potter, featuring black and gray text over a photograph of a muddy path in a forest surrounded by evergreen trees.Calendar by Dawn Potter

Deerbrook Editions | October 14, 2024

According to Arielle Greenberg, Potter’s latest poetry collection “witnesses both the partially eclipsed diurnal (laundry, litter) and the shining counter-quotidian (patience, psalms).”

 

 

 

Cover of The Kármán Line by Daisy Atterbury featuring a photograph of a small red rocket launching into the sky above a desert. The Kármán Line by Daisy Atterbury

Rescue Press | October 15, 2024

This hybrid collection “glides between off-planet simulations, uranium mining, queer erotics, military rockets, galactic zones of avoidance, and settler logics to arrive in the ‘outside of outside.’”

 

 

 

Cover of Into the Ether by Kate Banks, featuring a gold illustration of a dragonfly and paint splatters on a black background.Into the Ether by Kate Banks

Regal House Publishing | October 15, 2024

Each poem in Banks’s collection “builds a history, layered like sediment, of a life of observations, of tragedy, of connection, with one inevitable conclusion.”

 

 

 

 

Cover of Deeper the Tropics by Matt Broaddus featuring black text on black, green, and blue abstract painting of vegetation. Deeper the Tropics by Matt Broaddus

Fonograf Editions | October 15, 2024

Broaddus’s collection presents “the self as an accumulation of faces over which we have only partial control” via persona poems, prose poems, and false translations.

 

 

 

 

Cover of The Ghost Town Collectives by Brittney Corrigan, featuring an illustration of a bird’s nest with a flock of small birds in the distance on a white background. The Ghost Town Collectives by Brittney Corrigan

Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 15, 2024

According to Peter Rock, Corrigan’s short stories collect “tales of loss—lost relationships, lost climates and landscapes, lost possibilities and yet they are always infused with hope and empathy.”

 

 

 

Cover of Persephone Heads for the Gate by Merrill Oliver Douglas, featuring an abstract painting of a purple-skinned person in a dress and two other figures standing in front of several tall peach-colored buildings.Persephone Heads for the Gate by Merrill Oliver Douglas

Silverfish Review Press | October 15, 2024

According to Ellen Bass, these poems “move the reader’s focus from quotidian detail to big idea with confidence” and “fresh, engaging imagery that holds tension between beauty and harsh truths.”

 

 

 

Cover of Scream Queen by Jeremy Griffin, featuring a photograph of a woman on a beach wearing yellow sunglasses, an orange wig, and a shiny pink top holding a water gun.Scream Queen by Jeremy Griffin

Black Lawrence Press | October 15, 2024

Scream Queen navigates “issues of violence, spirituality, addiction, parenthood, and mortality for a clearer understanding of how our failures ultimately shape us.”

 

 

 

Cover of Take Me With You Next Time by Janis Hubschman, featuring an illustration of a red bicycle on a white background with a large yellow sun. Take Me With You Next Time by Janis Hubschman

WTAW Press | October 15, 2024

The “morally complex and often wryly funny” stories in Hubschman’s debut collection feature “women held captive by misguided desire, heartbreak, and bewildering grief.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Village of New Ghosts by Winifred Hughes, featuring dark blue watercolor outlines of four people and two animals on a white background.The Village of New Ghosts by Winifred Hughes

Passager Books | October 15, 2024

According to EJ Colen, The Village of New Ghosts creates a “linguistic and emotional landscape of give and take, of push and pull, each step forward a constant realignment of understanding of nature and history, of temporality itself.”

 

 

 

Cover of This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB by Roman Kozak, featuring white and yellow text over a black and white photograph of the graffitied exterior of CBGB.This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of CBGB by Roman Kozak

Trouser Press Books | October 15, 2024

The new edition of this 1988 work of music history features “a new foreword by Chris Frantz of Talking Heads, 12 pages of photographs by Ebet Roberts and historical reporting about the club’s closing in 2006.”

 

 

 

Cover of Gone by Steven Wesley Law, featuring a forest of evergreen trees photographed from above and fading into a cream background.Gone by Steven Wesley Law

Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 15, 2024

Law’s essays capture “the essence of the American wilderness with a voice that merges the precision of a journalist and the soul of a poet.”

 

 

 

Cover of Under This Roof by Theresa Monteiro featuring white text over a beige watercolor painting with a cream colored circle in the center.Under This Roof by Theresa Monteiro

Fernwood Press | October 15, 2024

Monteiro’s debut collection “offers the possibility of restoration, of making peace with grief, and of forging connection in a disrupted world.”

 

 

 

Cover of Caesaria by Hanna Nordenhök featuring yellow text over a black and white photograph of a woman in a dress with arms folded over her stomach whose head is not in the frame. Caesaria by Hanna Nordenhök

Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel

Book*hug Press | October 15, 2024

This novel is “a gothic tale set at the dawn of modern gynecology, when the female body appears as a cryptic landscape and male hubris reigns.”

 

 

 

Cover of apparitions (nines) by Nat Raha featuring an infrared photograph of grass and leaves on the edge of a pond.apparitions (nines) by Nat Raha

Nightboat Books | October 15, 2024

Written as a series of “niners”—a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines—Raha’s collection is “a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet.”

 

 

 

Cover of Saturday by Margaret Ross featuring white text and a close up black and white photograph of an orange tree.Saturday by Margaret Ross

The Song Cave | October 15, 2024

Ross’s second poetry collection chronicles “a brute education in love and decorum through ceremony starter kits, basement classrooms, and a mission school turned art camp.”

 

 

 

Cover of Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue by Robert Sellers and Nick Pendleton, featuring a red-tinted photograph of a man onstage smiling and playing an electric guitar.Marquee: The Story of the World’s Greatest Music Venue by Robert Sellers and Nick Pendleton

Trouser Press Books | October 15, 2024

Cowritten by the son of the founders, this illustrated book tells the club’s 30-year history through “dates, memories, wild stories, musical milestones and behind-the-scenes drama.”

 

 

 

Cover of A Ukrainian Dictionary of War by Ostap Slyvynsky featuring green text and an illustration of an outstretched arm with purple flowers growing out of it.A Ukrainian Dictionary of War by Ostap Slyvynsky

Translated from the Ukrainian by Grace Mahoney and Taras Malkovych

Lost Horse Press | October 15, 2024

In a dual-language format, this multi-genre book presents Slyvynsky’s efforts as a “wartime lexicographer, carefully collecting and compiling a dictionary of witness to Russia’s invasion and war against Ukraine.”

 

 

 

Cover of Solace by Cornelia Maude Spelman, featuring half of a black and white photograph of a young girl over a green background with cursive writing on it.Solace by Cornelia Maude Spelman

JackLeg Press | October 15, 2024

Spelman’s memoir “unfurls in a series of vignettes drawn from diaries and personal stories about her relationship to others as daughter, mother, friend, wife, therapist, and grandmother.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Orchard by Susan Weiss featuring a blurry photograph of red flowers blooming on tree branches with a body of water in the background creating lens flares.The Orchard by Susan Weiss

Green Writers Press | October 15, 2024

Created between 2020 and 2022, Weiss’s photographic study “speaks to the many moments of the pandemic cycle and allows the viewer to ponder those complex times and reflect on the feelings expressed.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Next Noise is Our Hearts by Kathleen Willard, featuring an illustration of an elk under a yellow arch standing on top of a wreath of green leaves and yellow flowers intertwined with a topographical map.The Next Noise Is Our Hearts by Kathleen Willard

Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | October 15, 2024

Willard’s poetry collection “evokes an unabashed celebration of the natural world as she shares her love of bees, the northern white rhinoceros, bison, coral reefs, and whales—balanced by her poetic and science-based investigations into many environmental issues.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Last of the Pops by Adam Wilson, featuring graffiti-style text over a dark blue background with illustrations of various instruments and musicians.Last of the Pops by Adam Wilson

Read Furiously | October 15, 2024

This graphic novel dives “into the soundtrack of a wannabe podcaster, a teen graffiti artist and her estranged brother, a former disc jockey, the newest owner of a vinyl legacy, and a tortured singer on the cusp of greatness.”

 

 

 

Cover of Deep & Wild: On Mountains, Opossums & Finding Your Way in West Virginia by Laura Jackson, featuring an illustration of an opossum sitting on rocks overlooking green and blue mountains against a pink sky.Deep & Wild: On Mountains, Opossums & Finding Your Way in West Virginia by Laura Jackson

Autumn House Press | October 18, 2024

In her debut essay collection, Jackson describes “life in West Virginia while dismantling stereotypes portrayed in popular media with humor and tenderness.”

 

 

 

Cover of Keefer Street by David Spaner, featuring a yellow and black illustration of a man with one fist raised against a yellow, red, and black background.Keefer Street by David Spaner

Ronsdale Press | October 18, 2024

Spaner’s novel tells the story of a Vancouver man “shaped by the Spanish Civil War and the not-so-civil wars that go on within families and intimate relationships.”

 

 

 

Cover of Walking and Stealing by Stephen Cain, featuring a digital illustration of floodlights and an airplane against a gray background. Walking and Stealing by Stephen Cain

Book*hug Press | October 22, 2024

This collection of serial poems “considers urban affairs and culture through playful, revelatory devices.”

 

 

 

Cover of No More Flowers by Stephanie Cawley, featuring yellow cursive text over an orange background with abstract blue and red illustrations resembling woven yarn. No More Flowers by Stephanie Cawley

Birds, LLC | October 22, 2024

The poems in this collection “believe in their ability to affect consequences with language, while being self-aware enough to know how absurd that belief is.”

 

 

 

Cover of Connecticut Literary Anthology, featuring a blue background with illustrations of the Connecticut flag, leaves, flowers, a whale, and a tower viewer. Connecticut Literary Anthology

Woodhall Press | October 22, 2024

Edited by Victoria Buitron, Summer Tate, and Christine Kandic Torres, this anthology has “constellated together the best poetry, nonfiction, and prose from Connecticut writers.”

 

 

 

Cover of Wrong Heaven Again by Ryan Eckes featuring a photograph of a white wrecked car pointing upwards in a field of tall grass with farmland and a gray sky in the background. Wrong Heaven Again by Ryan Eckes

Birds, LLC | October 22, 2024

According to Laura Jaramillo, the poems in this collection “emerge from the deformation of language by landlords, administrators, and politicians who seek to dress up the daily hell into which we’ve been plunged.”

 

 

 

Cover of Black Days by Jackson Ellis featuring an illustration of a bloodshot eye with a blue and red iris against a black background with large white text. Black Days by Jackson Ellis

Green Writers Press | October 22, 2024

In Ellis’s speculative novel, the two protagonists “discover the key to human hibernation—but when their secret goes public, death, deception, and moral dilemmas wreak havoc on their lives.”

 

 

 

Cover of All We Can Do Is Name Them by Joanne Esser featuring an illustration of three small brown deer walking across a snowy landscape with the night sky above them.All We Can Do Is Name Them by Joanne Esser

Fernwood Press | October 22, 2024

According to Deborah Keenan, this poetry collection is “assured, confident, direct, far-ranging—a book written by a grown-up willing to stare at the years gone by and at the present moment.”

 

 

 

Cover of All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins by Ariel Francisco, featuring an illustration of a man in a purple Hawaiian shirt sitting on a bed with a green squid on his lap and a margarita in his hand, looking upward as everything in the picture liquifies and floats upward against a teal background.All the Places We Love Have Been Left in Ruins by Ariel Francisco

Translated into the Spanish by Francisco Henriquez

Burrow Press | October 22, 2024

In this bilingual collection, Francisco “mourns a Miami already ruined by climate change and development, and meditates on the future ruins of a city reclaimed by the sea.”

 

 

 

Cover of The First Day by Beth Gordon featuring a saturated photograph of a blue payphone against a brick and metal wall.The First Day by Beth Gordon

Belle Point Press | October 22, 2024

This poetry chapbook “pieces together one-way conversations that enter a complex world of relationships spanning several decades yet remaining tethered to revelations in ordinary places.”

 

 

 

Cover of Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer featuring an illustration of many yellow, blue, and red cars with their headlights on driving down a street lined with red and black buildings at night. Certain Shelter by Abbie Kiefer

June Road Press | October 22, 2024

Kiefer’s debut poetry collection asks, “What sources of solace and stability remain amid the ruins of industry, after the death of a parent, while raising children in an uncertain time alongside the ghosts of the past?”

 

 

 

Cover of Wish Ave by Alessandra Lynch, featuring an illustration of tall brown trees against a sky blue background and a woman standing beside the silhouette of an animal.Wish Ave by Alessandra Lynch

Alice James Books | October 22, 2024

According to Bin Ramke, “The essential dialogic nature of this book … establishes the voices in this head, headlong encounter with the world, answering for our human failure to care properly or enough or in time.”

 

 

 

Cover of Material Witness by Aditi Machado, featuring an orange illustration of a person adorned with geometric jewelry, made up of small hatch marks against a pink background.Material Witness by Aditi Machado

Nightboat Books | October 22, 2024

This collection is “a series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.”

 

 

 

Cover of José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas by José Martí, featuring illustrations of pink, orange, and green palm fronds and a yellow oval with an illustration of a man’s hair and facial hair in the center.José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas by José Martí

Seven Stories Press | October 22, 2024

This anthology of the writing of José Martí features bilingual poetry, political essays, writings on Latin American culture, and his letters.

 

 

 

Cover of North of Main: Spartanburg's Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College by Brenda Lee Pryce, Jim Neighbors, and Betsy Wakefield Teter, featuring a sepia toned photograph of young Black people sitting in rows and a color photograph of the exterior of a brick building.North of Main: Spartanburg’s Historic Black Neighborhoods of North Dean Street, Gas Bottom, and Back of the College by Brenda Lee Pryce, Jim Neighbors, and Betsy Wakefield Teter

Hub City Press | October 22, 2024

This 250-page history book includes over 150 historic photographs and maps, telling the story of this district through “oral interviews, newspaper accounts, archival records, photographs, and personal collections.”

 

 

 

Cover of Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing by Eleni Stecopoulos featuring a purple tinted aerial photograph of a semicircle-shaped building surrounded by trees.Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing by Eleni Stecopoulos

Nightboat Books | October 22, 2024

This book of essays is “a virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.”

 

 

 

Cover of Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea by Liz Worth featuring red text over a black and white photograph of a person’s hands holding an animal’s skull. Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea by Liz Worth

Book*hug Press | October 22, 2024

Inspired by Worth’s professional tarot reading, these poems about ritual, magic, and daily life “explore the thin veil between them and suggest it barely exists at all.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn featuring black text and green braille on a white background.The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn

Rose Metal Press | October 23, 2024

This memoir about progressive vision loss “shapeshifts between lyric essay and prose poetry and traverses the divides between lived experience, history, and scientific knowledge.”

 

 

 

Cover of Book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham featuring an illustration of a person in an astronaut helmet sitting inside an hourglass filled with stars against a background made up of a written manuscript in another language.Book of Kin by Darius Atefat-Peckham

Autumn House Press | October 25, 2024

This debut poetry collection “follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of both his mother and brother.”

 

 

 

Cover of An Altar of Tides by Peter Ludwin featuring yellow text over a close up photograph of smooth brown stones embedded in wet sand. An Altar of Tides by Peter Ludwin

Wandering Aengus Press | October 25, 2024

According to Kevin Miller, the poems in this collection “are steeped in the natural beauty of the Northwest, they are intricate and intimate.”

 

 

 

Cover of Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, featuring a black and white illustration of two female religious figures looking upward with a circular hole cut in the middle of the drawing.Lunulae: New & Selected Poems in Translation by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Translated from the Irish by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Wake Forest University Press | October 25, 2024

This new edition of the award-winning Irish-language poet’s work “revisits and reworks poems from her previous collection.”

 

 

 

Cover of Water, Spiderweb by Nada Gašić featuring red text over a yellow unlabeled map and twisting green branches.Water, Spiderweb by Nada Gašić

Translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias–Bursać

Sandorf Passage | October 29, 2024

Gašić’s “literary noir is set in motion by the historic 1964 Sava River flood that runs through the lives, and generations, of an eccentric cast of marginalized characters.”

 

 

 

Cover of Food Porn by Sienna Liu featuring a blue text over a green background and a black outlined illustration of a fork twisting noodles, which are intertwined with the text. Food Porn by Sienna Liu

Game Over Books | October 29, 2024

This novella focused on food, the body, eating disorder, identity, and desire is “an alternative campus novel that explores the possibility of love in a world where everything is always excessive yet unfulfilled.”

 

 

 

Cover of Whitewash by Frances Victory Schenkkan featuring a green-tinted photograph of logs floating on water with trees in the distance. Whitewash by Frances Victory Schenkkan

Belle Point Press | October 29, 2024

This poetry collection “explores the civil rights era and its lingering tensions in Shreveport, Louisiana.”

 

 

 

Cover of Opheliac by Emma Sloan featuring orange text on a black background with a white and gray illustration of flowers on a branch. Opheliac by Emma Sloan

Black Lawrence Press | October 29, 2024

This debut chapbook “intertwines modern mythology and one of literature’s most enduring figures, Shakespeare’s Ophelia–using both as a vessel to explore betrayal and grief.”

 

 

 

Cover of No Credit River by Zoe Whittall featuring blue dripping, cursive text over a red painting of a girl’s face. No Credit River by Zoe Whittall

Book*hug Press | October 29, 2024

According to Ali Blythe, this memoir in prose poetry “is a testament to our queer and artistic communities—profoundly thoughtful, coursing with intelligence.”

 

 

 

Cover of Lines by Sung J. Woo featuring an illustration of a man and woman walking towards each other under the Washington Square arch, separated by a black square in the center of the picture. Lines by Sung J. Woo

Unsolicited Press | October 29, 2024

According to Brenda Janowitz, this romantic novel is “a thoughtful exploration of the choices we make, and how one chance meeting (or lack thereof) can change your life in complicated and unexpected ways.”

 

 

 

Cover of We Shall Not All Sleep by Tony Woodlief featuring white text over a black and white photograph of a tree standing in the middle of a body of water with mountains in the distance. We Shall Not All Sleep by Tony Woodlief

Slant Books | October 29, 2024

According to Ron Hansen, this coming-of-age novel is a “beautifully written portrait of a father and son’s deep love for each other, and of the guilt and hauntings, both real and imagined, that threaten and challenge them.”

 

 

 

Cover of Waiting for Maria by Ifeoma Chinwuba featuring a black and white illustration of three young girls’ heads above the wall of a prison with a watchtower and a truck.Waiting for Maria by Ifeoma Chinwuba

Iskanchi Press | October 30, 2024

This novel, a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize, “explores the harrowing experiences of female inmates caught in Nigeria’s sluggish justice system.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Civilization by K. M. McKenzie featuring neon blue text and an illustration of a Black woman wearing a glowing gold necklace and standing next to a leopard with a castle in the distance. The Civilization by K. M. McKenzie

Iskanchi Press | October 30, 2024

In this young adult fantasy novel, 17-year-old Kadsa “enters a realm of dark forces, ancient deities, and looming annihilation” on a mission to save her grandfather.

 

 

 

Cover of The Man with Yellow Hair by Meriel Mongie featuring orange text and an illustration of a farm with grazing livestock, orange sun rays illuminating it, and a yellow butterfly in the foreground.The Man with Yellow Hair by Meriel Mongie

Iskanchi Press | October 30, 2024

This novel “delves into the experiences and emotions of mature women, providing readers with a rich and nuanced portrayal of relationships, loss, and the passage of time.”

 

 

 

Cover of The Finish Line by Ayo Oyeku featuring an illustration of a Black girl in a purple running outfit pointing at a roaring lion on a dirt trail surrounded by trees. The Finish Line by Ayo Oyeku

Iskanchi Press | October 30, 2024

This children’s fantasy book “follows Mafoya, a determined girl who dreams of becoming her town’s top sprinter.”

 

 

 

Cover of Una nueva ciudad, un nuevo hogar / A New City, a New Home by Elías David featuring an illustration of a mother, father, and young son smiling in a blue car with boxes and suitcases strapped to the hood.Una nueva ciudad, un nuevo hogar / A New City, a New Home by Elías David

Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024

In this bilingual picture book for children ages 4 to 8, parents “help their son cope with a scary change: leaving everything familiar behind and moving to a new home in a new city.”

 

 

 

Cover of Racing at Devil’s Bridge and Other Stories / Carreras en El Puente del Diablo y otros cuentos by Xavier Garza featuring an illustration of a red devil frowning and looking down at smaller illustrations of various figures.Racing at Devil’s Bridge and Other Stories / Carreras en El Puente del Diablo y otros cuentos by Xavier Garza

Translated into the Spanish by Alaíde Ventura Medina

Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024

The stories in this bilingual collection for children “feature creepy creatures from Latin American lore with a contemporary twist.”

 

 

 

Cover of Ghost Brother by Sylvia Sánchez Garza featuring gold text over an illustration of a man’s shadow on a green and brown rocky ground. Ghost Brother by Sylvia Sánchez Garza

Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024

This young adult novel “explores death, grief and the supernatural folklore of Mexican Americans in South Texas.”

 

 

 

Cover of Trini's Magic Kitchen by Patricia Santos Marcantonio featuring an illustration of a young girl in a green dress smiling and surrounded by various colorful plants and pots.Trini’s Magic Kitchen by Patricia Santos Marcantonio

Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024

This novel for middle readers explores a “young girl’s family difficulties alongside new adventures in the kitchen.”

 

 

 

Cover of El empacho de Isabel / Isabel’s Tummy Ache by Julio Molinete, featuring an illustration of a smiling elderly woman stirring an orange liquid in a large bowl while a smiling young girl with black hair and a pink dress watches.El empacho de Isabel / Isabel’s Tummy Ache by Julio Molinete

Translated from the Spanish by Gabriela Baeza Ventura

Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024

This bilingual picture book “follows a girl who visits her grandmother and explores the food and customs of her Caribbean island.”

 

 

 

Cover of ¡Celebremos el Día de las Brujas y el Día de los Muertos! / Let’s Celebrate Halloween and the Day of the Dead! by Gustavo Ruffino, featuring two children in face paint smiling and hugging, one of them holding a basket of multicolored candy, surrounded by butterflies and orange and yellow flowers. ¡Celebremos el Día de las Brujas y el Día de los Muertos! / Let’s Celebrate Halloween and the Day of the Dead! by Gustavo Ruffino

Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024

This bilingual picture book “warmly depicts the love of lost family members—even four-legged ones—and the Mexican indigenous tradition of the Day of the Dead/El Día de los Muertos.”

 

 

 

Cover of Shane's Journey to Shiprock by Gloria L. Velásquez featuring an illustration of a young man smiling and standing in front of a grassy green and purple landscape with a tall brown rock in the center.Shane’s Journey to Shiprock by Gloria L. Velásquez

Arte Público Press | October 31, 2024

The new novel in the Roosevelt High School Series “acquaints teen readers with traumatic events experienced by Native American communities in the Southwest, including forced displacement, loss of family and struggles with alcoholism.”