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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 7h

“You’d chosen a fitting alias—unique enough to stand out from Sean Cody’s stable of all-American jocks named Mark and Ken, but not laughable...”

—Steven Tagle's “To the First-Time Porn Star” in @offassignment.bsky.social #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth
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To the First-Time Porn Star — Off Assignment

“You’d chosen a fitting alias—unique enough to stand out from Sean Cody’s stable of all-American jocks named Mark and Ken, but not laughable like Knox or Shamu. ‘Charley’ with a y dangling off the…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 9h

Johanny Vázquez Paz’s poems explore “contemporary Latino immigrant experience, dancing the tropical sensibility of Puerto Rico among Chicago’s concrete and broken glass.”

Read POEMAS CALLEJEROS / STREETWISE POEMS! @mayapplepress.bsky.social
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Poemas Callejeros / Streetwise Poems – Johanny Vázquez Paz – Mayapple Press

Publishing challenging and accessible literary books since 1978

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 10h

Congratulations to all the CLMP members publishing books this month! Find your next favorite reads in our roundup of new books from more than 60 indie presses: www.clmp.org/news/books-l...

Books Launching in October 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in October 2025 from CLMP members. Earth & Earth-like Planets by Devaki D. Devi…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 13h

In Albert Abonado’s JAW, “America pulls a splinter out of a child’s hand, a man hides beneath a body to avoid Japanese soldiers, and God eats spam, white rice, and a fried egg.”

Read poetry from @sundresspub.bsky.social this #FAHM:
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JAW by Albert Abonado | Sundress Publications

In JAW, America pulls a splinter out of a child’s hand, a man hides beneath a body to avoid Japanese soldiers, and God eats spam, white rice, and a fried egg. Giving us an inside look into…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 15h

Persephone tugged and pulled and twisted
until she had him trained—on a leash. Not
me.

—“Queen of the Dead” by Guadalupe García McCall in West Trestle Review #HispanicHeritageMonth www.westtrestlereview.com/september_20...

Queen of the Dead by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

I know my mother’s waiting for me in heaven because she visits me in dreams, tells me to stop crying and tend the roses in her garden. “Don’t cut your hair,” she says. “It’s your crown, your glory,…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

“1. the uptown 6 screeches as the mango poem
lodged in my throat beckons
to its brother…”

Read “but when,” a poem by Czaerra Galicinao Ucol, in @beestung.bsky.social this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: beestungmag.com/issue05/one-...

One Poem by Czaerra Galicinao Ucol – beestung

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Center for the Art of Translation @catranslation.org · 7d

We're hiring a full-time Engagement Editor—a new full time staff position in CAT's Communications Department. For more information, visit our site and apply by Oct. 31. www.catranslation.org/about/opport...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

The speakers of QUERIDA navigate “memory frayed by the generational trauma of migration, coloniality, and the exploitative labor of late-stage capitalism.”

Read Nathan Xavier Osorio's poetry collection this #HispanicHeritageMonth! @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...

Querida - University of Pittsburgh Press

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

We’re so excited that @recycledgiraffe.bsky.social, Joyce Chen, and @emilynemens.bsky.social are the magazine judges for the 2026 #FirecrackerAwards! Learn more and submit to one of our two magazine categories—best debut or general excellence—by November 14: www.clmp.org/programs-opp...

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

Dino Enrique Piacentini’s story “Mexican Goodbyes” is featured in Issue 325 of @onestorymag.bsky.social and on our reading list for #NationalHispanicHeritageMonth! Order the issue here:
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Mexican Goodbyes – One Story

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 1d

A “literary-architectural hybrid project,” Jan M. Padios’s 36 DWELLINGS “sketches fault lines within a Filipinx family, linking intimate harm to the forces of colonialism and labor migration.”

From Burrow Press and our #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth list:
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36 Dwellings - Burrow Press

36 DWELLINGSJan M. Padios $20 | Limited Edition Text-Image Hybrid A literary-architectural hybrid project, 36 Dwellings sketches fault lines within a Filipinx family, linking intimate harm to the…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 2d

@shopoetryjournal.bsky.social’s #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth playlist features six poems by poets recently published in the journal, including Hannah Keziah Agustin, Karla Myn Khine, Akira Ritos, Elise Thi Tran, and MT Vallarta!

Listen to it here:
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Filipino American History Month Round Up - Shō Poetry Journal

To celebrate National Filipino American Heritage Month, we've curated this selection of poems by by Hannah Keziah Agustin (Shō No. 7); Karla Myn Khine and Akira Ritos (Shō No. 5), and Elise Thi Tran…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 2d

Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s MY PERFECT COGNATE “interrogates the connections and contrasts at the sharp edges of her in-betweens.”

Read this new poetry collection, out now from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social and featured on our #HispanicHeritageMonth list: www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/my-per...

My Perfect Cognate by Natalie Scenters-Zapico - Copper Canyon Press

Staggering between English and Spanish, language becomes Scenters-Zapico’s mirror, reflecting her body, her family, and the borders that confine them.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 2d

Writing & Art from the Farmworker Community—a 2024 portfolio from @commonmag.bsky.social—features fiction by Helena María Viramontes, nonfiction by Nora Rodriguez Camagna, poetry by Miguel M. Morales, and more! Read it this #HispanicHeritageMonth: www.thecommononline.org/issues/issue...

The Common, Issue 26

A special portfolio of writing from immigrant, seasonal, and migrant farmworkers, stories set in Chicago and India, an essay about coming of age in the Balkans, and poems by Rickey Laurentiis,…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

“You’re sitting in the back of the car en route to the outlet malls a few towns over. In front of you is a GameBoy Color.”

Read Lyn Rafil's “‘Are you a boy? Or are you a girl?’: A Walkthrough" in @anmlymag.bsky.social! #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth anmly.org/ap37/lyn-raf...

Lyn Rafil – ANMLY

ANMLY

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 3d

Read a Kaya Press novel this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!

Set in 1970s Honolulu, R. Zamora Linmark's ROLLING THE R’S “animates the hilarious, disturbing, and chaotic misadventures of a group of Filipino, Vietnamese, Okinawan, and haole fifth graders.”
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Rolling the R's: 20th Anniversary Edition |

Before the Young Adult became the edgy, best-selling genre it is today, Kaya Press was publishing cutting edge stories about Asian diasporic young people that changed the world. R. Zamora Linmark’s…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

“A painful amount of guilt has riddled my body for years.”

Read “In My Own Skin” by Camille Espiritu, published by Wellspringwords, this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: www.wellspringwords.love/the-descent/...

In My Own Skin — Wellspringwords

“I will no longer be a silent citizen of victimhood.”

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

Kimberly Vargas Agnese’s poetry “invites readers to ponder: What rights ought to be afforded to the people, creatures, and landscapes that comprise the world in which we live?”

Order KADUPUL FLOWER from @greenwriterspress.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth greenwriterspress.com/book/kadupul...

KADUPUL FLOWER

Kimberly Vargas Agnese

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 4d

MANILA NOIR (@akashicbooks.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!

According to Publishers Weekly, this anthology “includes a liberal dose of the gothic and supernatural, with disappearance and loss being constants.”
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Manila Noir (Philippines)

Fresh noir from one of the most intense, congested, and overpopulated cities in the world.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5d

In THIRD WINTER IN OUR SECOND COUNTRY, Andres Rojas “captures the essence of the experience of settling into a new land, in all its strangeness and sometimes, ridiculousness.”

Read this poetry collection from @triohousepress.org! #HispanicHeritageMonth
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Third Winter in Our Second Country by Andres Rojas

A poetry collection detailing the experience of the exiled, this collection both haunts and inspires. In elegies that mourn loss of a homeland, Rojas also captures the essence of the experience of…

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5d

“do not hold honey in our home like that.
sweet-hold, i tear my jaw
from the window. there’s a spasm
between your lips.”

Read “idiosyncratic kitchen,” one of two poems by Turi Sioson in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social, for #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth:
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“idiosyncratic kitchen”

Turi Sioson

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5d

Giancarlo Huapaya’s poetry collection [GAMEROVER]—translated by Ryan Greene—charts “the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents’ bodies and complicated habits.”

Order your copy from @deepvellum.bsky.social! #HispanicHeritageMonth store.deepvellum.org/products/gam...

[gamerover]

By Giancarlo Huapaya, tr. Ryan Greene. A political, poetic excavation of the human landscape, charting the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents' bodies and complicated…

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Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you to Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) for including Babaylan in your 2025 reading list! 📚Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, everyone. Find your next read: https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-filipino-american-history-month-2025/

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 5d

Read Eileen R. Tabios’s BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR (Marsh Hawk Press) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!

According to E. San Juan, Jr., this collection of poetry and prose “weaves the semiotic subtleties of icon, index, and symbol into epiphanies.”
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Because I love you, I Become War Poems & Uncollected Poetics | Independent Publishers Group

Independent Publishers Group

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 6d

BANANA [ ] is on our reading list for #HispanicHeritageMonth!

Published by @upittpress.bsky.social, Paul Hlava Ceballos’s poems “reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits.” upittpress.org/books/978082...

banana [ ] - University of Pittsburgh Press

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