Add this amazing #AWP26 featured event to your schedule in Baltimore: “Rewriting the Archive: Poetic Voices on Who Defines History, Sponsored by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social” featuring Natalie Diaz, Kondwani Fidel, Tyehimba Jess, Iain Haley Pollock, and @leighsugar.bsky.social, on Friday, March 6!
Short poem by Matthew Nienow: Someday, if I am Lucky From his book, If Nothing Alice James Books, 2025
Someday, if I am Lucky
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by Matthew Nienow
@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
According to Aracelis Girmay, these poems depict “other past and simultaneous selves changed by injury, intimacy, notions of citizenship, and nation.”
Read Janine Joseph’s DECADE OF THE BRAIN (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth:
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UP THE MOUNTAIN DOWN THE FIELDS. should I say you beat us too. in the shower, in public, on the face. with boots, with a chair leg. chased Vicky to cut her awful hair. told us, get work done, more tits, less chin, more eyes, less ears. but it’s verging on melodrama. nice people don’t suspend their disbelief. Esther Lin
“should I say / you beat us / too / in the shower / in public / on the face / with boots / with a chair leg / chased Vicky / to cut her / awful hair / told us / get work done / more tits / less chin” —
@estherwslin.bsky.social, “Up the Mountain Down the Fields” @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
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"Owed to My Father's Accent", a poem by Ally Ang
https://spare.poems.com/poem/owed-to-my-fathers-accent/
via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
🎉 Happy Pub Day to ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES by Iain Haley Pollock 🎉 A candid collection on violence, racial justice, and what it means to be American.
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I've been rereading @estherwslin.bsky.social's Cold Thief Place since January when I got an early copy from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. It's already one of my favorite books.
Thanks for sharing this poem from my forthcoming book Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) 🌝
So proud to celebrate @estherwslin.bsky.social and her stunning debut COLD THIEF PLACE, just longlisted for the 76th National Book Awards! 🌟 A rare honor for a first collection + a testament to Esther’s extraordinary voice. Congrats to Esther and all this year’s nominees! 💐📚 #NBAwards
Big congrats to DeeSoul Carson, named a 2025 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellow! 🎉 And cheers to Sarah Ghazal Ali, a finalist this year—AJB is so proud to publish you both! Learn more: buff.ly/KWx91wz 🌟
Cover of OLD STRANGER POEMS: JOAN LARKIN a painted enigmatic mask portrait Selbstportrat" by Paula Modersohn-Becker (1906-7)
Mozart Songbook Outside on Fremont Ave., black snow and no such thing as a white wig or a lovestruck violet who sings his heart out. My lungs ached, huge with breath and the harsh sweetness of strange words. Veilchen, Madchen -- my brother spoke them to show how my tongue was a gate that could open secrets. He pressed keys partway, to draw softest sounds from the upright, and what he loved I loved. That was my whole faith then.
For the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #4 I read Joan Larkin's latest work Old Stranger. Enigmatic image-driven poems, interior/sense memory, haunting works. From @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social #LGBTQAI #poetics
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🎉 Happy Pub Day to SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein! A luminous debut exploring transition, illness, and the body as a site of transformation—spiritual, physical, and public. Out now from Alice James Books: bit.ly/saint-conseq...
Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social, with readings by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Shelby Handler.
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Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
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SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein is on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list!
This collection from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social is “a book of 21st century transits … towards the culture and language of Russia, out of one gender and into another.”
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“My petitioner is interested in sex. / His distinguishing feature is a hibiscus tattoo. / My petitioner’s mother dislikes me. / Her son would never marry someone like me.” — @estherwslin.bsky.social, “Ms. L— Describe Your Petitioner” @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/536048/two-p...
I Don’t Want To Be Understood by @sadqueer4life.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social
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Leigh Sugar’s debut poetry collection “dramatizes what it’s like to stand on the outside looking in ... to live within a love confined by the state.” —Edward Hirsch
FREELAND (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #DisabilityPrideMonth: www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/fr...
Matthew Nienow, If Nothing / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ;
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Three books on a paisley print chair: FISH WIFE by Alysss Kathleen McCanna, MAKING A LIVING by Rosalie Moffett, and MOTHERSALT by Mia Ayumi Malhotra
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"I hear what we are meant for
outside this room."
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Here by Jean Valentine from Light Me Down - The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (2024 @AliceJamesBooks.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/dex2wank
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Sneak peek from Andrés Cerpa's THE PALACE, coming in Jan 🌟
Leigh Sugar, Freeland / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ;
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Look who’s in Poets & Writers! 🎉
Honored to see @leighsugar.bsky.social's FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work.
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Thrilled to welcome @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌
Expansive poems on memory, theory & time.
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