Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in July 2026.
Proof: Inaugural Poem Suite by Cornelius Eady
Tupelo Press | July 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1961209800
“Moving from Robert Frost squinting into winter glare, to Elizabeth Alexander straightening her back before history, to Aretha Franklin beneath her church-crown hat,” this poetry collection “braids civic pageantry with private memory.”
Daughter of Salt by Leila Farjami
Trio House Press | July 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-69-5
“Moving between land and sea, mother and daughter, Iran and the United States,” the poems in Farjami’s debut collection “chart a matrilineal inheritance shaped by war and endurance.”
Continental Drift by Mai-Linh Hong
Trio House Press | July 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-64-0
In this poetry collection, Hong “honors and explores the geography that made and continues to shape her ancestors’ story, her own story, and the future story of her descendants.”
My Wise Little Ghost by Emily Hyland
Trio House Press | July 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-58-9
In this poetry collection, Hyland “uncovers the texture of buried, complicated feelings from the impossible timing and circumstance of the end of her marriage” that led to her getting an abortion.
Dear Dear by Reuben Gelley Newman
Trio House Press | July 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-66-4
“Drawing on artists from Bach to Mitski,” this poetry collection “flirts with nostalgia but refuses to dwell in the past, asking how remembering our ancestors can reinvigorate our present struggles.”
Trio House Press | July 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-70-1
This memoir follows “an adult son seeking to understand his terrifying and abusive father, interwoven with a biography of his father, who experienced unimaginable horrors as a child during World War II.”
CHABÓCHI DOLL by féi iká shumarí
Abode Press | July 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9955832-0-2
In this essay collection, shumarí turns “womanhood, citizenship, and disability on their head” while “negotiating the radicalness of her joy and two-spirited embodiment, when confronted with a brain tumor diagnosis.”
From Reluctant Earth by Lisa Stice
Fernwood Press | July 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-230-9
According to Raquel Vasquez Gilliland, in these poems “writers, authors, editors, poets, muses—many of whom have been misogynistically tucked behind the fame and work of their male partners and relatives—are given beautiful homage.”
it answers to my name by samari zysk
new words {press} | July 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968528-04-1
zysk’s debut is “an autobiographical collection of poetry that explores the boundary between language and identity” and offers a “howl of joy, of anger, of freedom, of grief.”
Game Over Books | July 7, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-994811-27-6
“Lush and poignant,” aboutaleb’s poetry collection is a “love song of misery and grief, tracing the poet’s steps as she dives into the Underworld in search of her brother.”
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World by Oliver Basciano
Graywolf Press | July 7, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-406-0
Basciano’s debut “reveals leprosy as the world’s foundational stigma, underlying the colonialism, exclusion, and exploitation that has shaped contemporary life.”
The Virginia Poems: Based on the Writings of Virginia Woolf by Barbara Fried
The Poetry Box | July 7, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968610-28-9
Each poem in this biographical collection “captures Woolf’s personal reflections, yet each has a universal resonance—the void left after a mother’s death, the loneliness of a love extinguished, the deep satisfaction of a day well lived.”
Vine Leaves Press | July 7, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-200-5
“Set against an ancient Talmudic legend of thirty-six people responsible for the survival of humankind,” this novel is “a powerful story of obligation versus choice—of embracing one’s destiny or daring to escape it.”
The Fountain of Youth by John Kinsella
Dalkey Archive Press | July 7, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62897-651-9
In this novel set in a small town in Western Australia, “unlikely neighbors intersect at the straining joints of religion, faith, secularism, technology, and the pressure is starting to build.”
St. Ulphia’s Dead by Scott Lambridis
Regal House Publishing | July 7, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64603-750-6
In this mystery novel, “disgraced medical researcher Mirs and his skeptical new supervisor Jo arrive on the remote island of St. Ulphia to investigate an outbreak of mass psychosis.”
Party Line by Kyle Carrero Lopez
Graywolf Press | July 7, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-398-8
“Through familial, satirical, and geopolitical lenses,” this poetry collection “centers three interconnected forces: social life, US-Cuba relations, and the lives of Black people in the United States and Cuba.”
Sermon of Swallows by Whitney Vale
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | July 7, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966075-17-2
According to Lynn Slaughter, Vale “allows herself to be vulnerable as she writes about her childhood as a navy brat struggling to fit in at each new location” and other life experiences in this poetry chapbook.
Of a Certain Age by Tricia Gates Brown
Fernwood Press | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-232-3
In this poetry collection, Brown “reminds us to tune in—to the natural world, to the transcendent, to relationships, to the decades and epochs of one’s ordinary life, with wonder and courage.”
Unwritten by Laura Camacho Frias
Flare Books | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963511-43-7
In this novel, a thirteen-year-old “is confronted with new revelations about his mother’s past, propelling him to look for the lost side of his family that still lives in Spain, setting off a chain reaction of unintended consequences.”
Tough Poets Review, Inc. | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 9798234043887
“Formally rigorous and deeply erotic,” this hybrid chapbook “traces the bruises that approval leaves on a voice and the power that is reclaimed when that voice decides to misbehave.”
The Parliament of Mice by Robert Epstein
Regal House Publishing | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64603-735-3
According to Robert J. Meyer-Lee, in this novel Epstein “has reverse-engineered postmodern fiction, bringing it back to its roots in medieval beast fable and mock epic.”
The Wounded Me: Inspired by Hugo Simberg’s The Wounded Angel by Sherezade García Rangel
Blackwater Press | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963614-13-8
“An allegorical tale inspired by the Venezuelan crisis and diaspora,” this novel “of adventure, brotherhood and desperation asks: why do we follow our leaders and what are we willing to do to belong?”
Pissing in the Fountain of Youth by Justin Gradin
Tough Poets Review, Inc. | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 9798234114129
This poetry collection written over the course of several decades is “a map of life, a journal of rough truths and sad times, psychic boredom, psychedelic nightmares, and lovesick daydreams.”
Dzanc Books | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-938603-79-2
This novel “reimagines Cervantes’s classic tale through Sancho’s eyes, as he and the Don revisit the sites of their former adventures, embark on new ones, and finally go their separate ways.”
Self-Control by Stig Saeterbakken
Translated from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella
Dalkey Archive Press | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62897-653-3
In this novel, “a middle-aged man, Andreas Feldt, feeling that he is unable to communicate with his adult daughter over the course of lunch, announces on an inexplicable whim that he is going to get a divorce.”
The Sexuality of Care: On Nursing, Kink, and a Future Without Hospitals by M. K. Thekkumkattil
The Feminist Press | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-55861-362-1
This essay collection illustrates how the “medical system fails both its patients and its laboring nurses” and how “radical consent found in queer kink practices lets us imagine a future where hospitals are abolished, yet care thrives.”
Leave the Kid Alone by Steve Zettler
Vine Leaves Press | July 14, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-198-5
In Zettler’s memoir, he recounts “growing up above the family restaurant/bar/country inn, nestled in the free-spirited, alcohol-saturated Bucks County, Pennsylvania of the 1950s.”
The Ballad of a Bloodless Hangnail by Harper Walton
new words {press} | July 20, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968528-06-5
This poetry collection “explores a year in the life of a twentysomething queer person prone to yearning and overthinking” while investigating “desire and identity through humour and vivid imagery.”
The Loneliest Monk by Richard Chess
Orison Books | July 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949039-71-9
According to Edward Hirsch, “a boy becomes a yearning man, an unlikely monk longs for Jerusalem, and an American poet tries typing his way to Eden” in this poetry collection.
No Silence in the Afterlife by Abou Farman
Noemi Press | July 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-955992-72-5
This collection of visual art and poetry “comes out of live performances/lectures and experiments in dying and mourning,” as Farman’s “partner of 15 years, Leo, was leaving her flesh due to a metastatic cancer.”
The Great Awakening by Donald Hays
Regal House Publishing | July 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64603-711-7
In this novel set in Arkansas, Hays “delivers a sharp, darkly comic vision of a fractured nation veering off the rails—where power, delusion, and desperation collide in unforgettable ways.”
The Age of Migration: A Novella and Stories by Kai Maristed
WTAW Press | July 21, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9923690-5-2
“Set in intimate and unsettled places around the world,” the short stories in this collection “follow people who leave, arrive, flee, or remain, confronting what motion promises and what it demands in return.”
Dalkey Archive Press | July 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62897-655-7
In this novel, “Ava Klein—thirty-nine, lover of life, world traveler, professor of comparative literature—is dying,” and her life “unfolds as a spectacular dream theater with a cast of her life’s loves.”
The King’s Ghost by A. L. Sirois
Fitzroy Books | July 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64603-747-6
“Set in the glittering and dangerous world of ancient Egypt,” this novel “is a tense, atmospheric mystery where loyalty is fragile, power is deadly, and nothing is as it seems.”
Welcome to Perfectville by Yvonne Eve Walus
Vine Leaves Press | July 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-196-1
In this novel, a woman in a utopian town “faces an impossible choice: protect the system that keeps thousands safe, or destroy it and risk losing her children to the chaos beyond its walls.”
A Buyer’s Guide to the Afterlife by Erica Wright
Black Lawrence Press | July 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-210-3
The poems in this collection “respond to the feats of strength called upon by motherhood as well as the mental gymnastics required to start a family in the face of ecological disaster.”
Translated from the Polish by Mark Ordon
Open Letter | July 28, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960385-47-5
In this book, Boni “merges the official history of Auroville with her experiences with the people she meets while living in this unique city” to explore “the successes and failures of this unique attempt at utopia.”
Melancholy I & II by Jon Fosse
Translated from the Norwegian by Grethe Kvernes and Damion Searls
Dalkey Archive Press | July 28, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62897-657-1
In this pair of novels, Fosse “explores the life and work of Lars Hertervig … a troubled painter of dreamlike landscapes who was diagnosed with ‘melancholy’ but is now widely regarded as a major Norwegian artist.”
Regal House Publishing | July 28, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64603-717-9
“Interwoven with myth and memory,” this memoir is a “lyrical mediation on family, identity, inherited trauma, and the strength it takes to grow something new from broken ground.”
Black Lawrence Press | July 28, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-178-6
This essay collection follows Shin’s “journey from her childhood as a nameless, abandoned nine-month-old baby in Seoul, South Korea to an award-winning author.”
That Time I Got Cancer by Jim Zervanos
Vine Leaves Press | July 28, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-252-4
“A deeply human account of loss, resilience, and awakening,” Zervanos’s memoir about his lymphoma diagnosis “is the story of a man who came back—and learned, finally, how to be fully alive.”
Arcana Poetry Press | July 29, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968451-09-7
“A swooning, lyrical meditation on longing,” this poetry collection “explores the intoxicating pull of limerence—where devotion meets fixation and desire thrives on everything just out of reach.”
Welcome to the Mountain: A Portable Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference
Four Way Books | July 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-971810-00-3
Commemorating the centennial of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, this anthology edited by Lauren Francis-Sharma and Jennifer Grotz “recreates the experience of being in a writerly community that celebrates literature and invests in literary apprenticeship.”
How to Survive an Asthma Attack in a Climate Apocalypse by Osmani R. Ochoa
Abode Press | July 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9955832-1-9
This poetry chapbook for “readers who carry deep political conviction, live with chronic illness, or know the ache of loss and longing” is “a meditation on being human, and how breath—and breathlessness—reminds us that we are alive.”
