Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in July 2023 from CLMP members.
Nothing and Too Much to Talk About by Nancy Patrice Davenport
Roadside Press | July 1, 2023
According to Bill Gainer, Davenport “offers a glimpse of what it is to touch the mysteries of a grateful heart.”
Live in Suspense by David Groff
Trio House Press | July 1, 2023
In these poems, Groff “writes about living between beginnings and endings, about always expecting the next mortal thing to happen.”
Tupelo Press | July 1, 2023
In this poetry collection, Lala “struts through our contemporary wasteland—detritus of culture and commerce strewn everywhere, day’s minutiae grown Dionysiac, allusion rapt in a visionary elusiveness.”
Trio House Press | July 1, 2023
The Fight “showcases Manthey’s experience with adoption, alongside the actions of Varina Davis, history’s only First Lady of the Confederate States.”
A Northern Spring by Matt Mauch
Trio House Press | July 1, 2023
This collection of prose poems “transcends genre and form to depict splinters of humanity under the duress of plague and political destruction.”
Santa Fe Writers Project | July 1, 2023
In Roadmap, a “radical twenty-first century choreopoem, Dorian, a young American Black man, is tasked by an ancestral spirit to thwart his inevitable murder.”
Kaan and Her Sisters by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Trio House Press | July 1, 2023
This poetry collection “illuminates the work of grief and survival, the sordid legacies of official historical record and the liberatory practice of intimate narration.”
States of Arousal by Sunshine O’Donnell
Trio House Press | July 2, 2023
In O’Donnell’s poetry collection, “the reader is confronted by the brutality of the modern world while simultaneously comforted by the delicate displays of the human spirit.”
The Truth Is by Vivienne Shalom
Choeofpleirn Press | July 2, 2023
This poetry collection “knows well the complicated relationships children have with their parents, especially the relationship daughters have with their mothers.”
Bellevue Literary Press | July 4, 2023
The tenth stand-alone book in The American Novels series follows Ralph Waldo Emerson “coming to terms with the loss of memory, the cost of inaction, and the end of life.”
Dreams Are My Social Life by Rupert Wondolowski
Publishing Genius Press | July 4, 2023
Wondolowski’s poetry collection “bursts with ecstatic language and includes numerous tributes to the characters who populate the Baltimore literary world.”
Wonder About The by Matthew Cooperman
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | July 7, 2023
Wonder About The “represents Colorado stitched by threads of the water cycle, specifically the Cache la Poudre River, explored with an intimacy and depth.”
Pliny and Other Problems by Emily Fernandez
Bamboo Dart Press | July 7, 2023
This poetry chapbook “starts with the problems of ordinary life—a mother’s midlife crisis—and the doings (and undoings) of aging and loss.”
Café Unfiltered by Jean-Philippe Blondel
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
New Vessel Press | July 11, 2023
In this novel spanning twenty-four hours, “a medley of characters retrace the fading patterns of their lives after a long disruption from Covid.”
Read Furiously | July 11, 2023
The stories in this collection “eclipse the many different sides of the American experience, from riding on the school bus to the backdrop of Disneyland to the lives we live.”
Black girl magic & other elixirs by Shantell Hinton Hill
Yellow Arrow Publishing | July 11, 2023
This poetry collection is about “the embodied experiences of a ’90s Black girl growing up in the American South and how those experiences shaped her becoming a Black woman.”
Beer-Breath Kisses by Damon McKinney
Belle Point Press | July 11, 2023
In this collection of flash fiction and nonfiction, “McKinney weaves his own family narratives within fictionalized landscapes of reservation life.”
Et Alia Press | July 11, 2023
Peeble’s memoir follows her shift “from competitive cheerleader in pink to teen fighting for survival from a rare bone cancer and leukemia.”
Men in My Situation by Per Petterson
Translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey
Graywolf Press | July 11, 2023
Newly released in paperback, this novel is a “tender, merciless portrait of a life going to pieces.”
Red Hen Press | July 11, 2023
Warren’s debut poetry collection “discloses their reality of living nonbinary in the rural context of Alaska.”
Phantasmal Flowers in The Eden Where O
nly I Know by Yuu Ikeda
Black Sunflowers Poetry Press | July 14, 2023
This poetry chapbook “presents a curious, poetic directory of what it is to be a bloom.”
The Body’s Owner Speaks by Leo Smith
Black Sunflowers Poetry Press | July 14, 2023
According to Tiana Clark, Smith’s poetry chapbook “shines with sharp, visceral imagery and illuminating vulnerability.”
Consider the Gravity by Linda Enders
Choeofpleirn Press | July 15, 2023
According to Joseph Zaccardi, in this poetry chapbook, Enders “weaves the elements of the natural and human worlds.”
Get Fresh Books Publishing | July 15, 2023
This debut poetry collection “flies across oceans and recycles itself through tradition, blood, nature, and time—always manifesting itself in new creationism.”
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness by Shahd Alshammari
Feminist Press | July 18, 2023
This lyrical hybrid memoir “revisits a lifetime’s worth of personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness—a moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope.”
Something I Might Say by Stephanie Austin
WTAW Press | July 18, 2023
Austin considers the deaths of her father and grandmother in this memoir and “reminds us that the histories of our loves—the kindnesses and the disappointments too—sit with us in that final room.”
An Atavic Fear of Hailstorms by João Reis
Long Day Press | July 18, 2023
In this novel following a car crash, “a man obsesses about the decisions that brought him there, including the fate of woman he was driving to see.”
Rose Metal Press | July 18, 2023
Edited by Kelcey Ervick and Tom Hart, this anthology “gives readers unprecedented insight into the techniques of 28 of today’s most innovative creators of poetry comics, graphic narratives, and image-text hybrids.”
The Legible Element by Ralph Sneeden
EastOver Press | July 18, 2023
In this memoir “with a personal immersion in literature, visual art, film, and music,” Sneeden “establishes a nonfiction hybrid on the border between the academic and the personal.”
Walking In Awe: Musings of a Nature-Loving Nonprofit Director by Dave Van Manen
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | July 20, 2023
This is a collection of personal essays by “a non-profit nature education center director who also created award-winning environmental literacy programming, outlining the challenges of balancing life and work in the same fields and forests.”
What Could Maggie Do? by Thomas Donahue
Clare Songbirds Publishing | July 22, 2023
Illustrated by Michele Ridgeway, What Could Maggie Do? is “a delightful lap book about a day full of small adventures.”
