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Alice James Books is an independent poetry press dedicated to publishing books that matter by poets who inspire.

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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!
Rewriting the Archive: Poetic Voices on Who Defines History, Sponsored by Alice James Books
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October 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Someday, if I am Lucky

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by Matthew Nienow
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Short poem by Matthew Nienow: Someday, if I am Lucky From his book, If Nothing Alice James Books, 2025
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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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Decade of the Brain: Poems by Janine Joseph — Alice James Books
Janine Joseph's second poetry collection entitled DECADE OF THE BRAIN: POEMS. Published by Alice James Books.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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“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
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
October 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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New #poetry #books from University of Iowa Press, @redhenpress.bsky.social, Tin House Books, Persea, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, Nightwood Editions, Coach House Books, @boa-editions.bsky.social, New Directions & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
New Poetry Titles (9/16/25)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/16 from McGill-Queen's University Press, Plamen Press, Lithic Press, Black Sun Lit, Caitlin Press, University Of Iowa Press, Morgan James Publishing, Red H...
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September 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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"Owed to My Father's Accent", a poem by Ally Ang
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September 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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🎉 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.
🔗 ORDER NOW: bit.ly/possiblebodies
September 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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.
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“Each version of the self is at once grounded in the present and oracular, speaking as the prophet of a past life.”

@asaldrake.bsky.social reviews @estherwslin.bsky.social’s Cold Thief Place (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social).

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August 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Thanks for sharing this poem from my forthcoming book Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) 🌝
September 7, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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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
September 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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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 🌟
August 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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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
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.
August 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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📣 We're hiring! AJB seeks a part-time Production Coordinator (20–25 hrs/wk) in New Gloucester, ME. Join our team & help bring books to life! 2–3 yrs experience preferred. Must commute 2+ days/wk.

📚 Details: bit.ly/AJBSubmit
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August 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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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...
August 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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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.
✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby
📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq
#SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse
July 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

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July 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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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Saint Consequence by Michael M. Weinstein — Alice James Books
Michael M. Weinstein's poetry collection, SAINT CONSEQUENCE, published by Alice James Books
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July 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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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...
Two Poems by Esther Lin
Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Esther Lin for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I Don’t Want To Be Understood by @sadqueer4life.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ‬⁩

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July 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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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...
FREELAND by Leigh Sugar — Alice James Books
Leigh Sugar's poetry collection, FREELAND, published by Alice James Books.
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July 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Matthew Nienow, If Nothing / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ;
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Matthew Nienow, If Nothing
WHAT LUCK I lived. Lived again. Wrecked, hungover. Swerved in the dark from river back to bunk and never hit a tree. Never was pulled ...
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July 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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R. A. Villanueva
July 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social is currently having a 30% off and buy-two-get-one-free sale through tomorrow if you want to preorder Let the Moon Wobble! www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/le...
Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang (Alice James Books) — Alice James Books
Ally Ang's poetry collection, LET THE MOON WOBBLE (Alice James Books)
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July 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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New book mail! @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social @blacklawrence.bsky.social
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
July 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"I hear what we are meant for
outside this room."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
Here by Jean Valentine from Light Me Down - The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (2024 @AliceJamesBooks.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/dex2wank
Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (Alice James Books) — Alice James Books
The new & selected poetry collection, Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine by Jean Valentine (Alice James Books)
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July 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM