Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in June 2025 from CLMP members.
Tupelo Press | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-20-6
These poems and lyric essays “unearth the ways violence both disrupts and enables our ways of knowing—or approximating knowledge of—one another.”
Solemnity Rites by Loralee Clark
Prolific Pulse Press | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1962374477
This poetry collection is an “account of reimagined myths and truths of who we are as humans and how we live our histories.”
My Love is Water by Rob Macaisa Colgate
Ugly Duckling Presse | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-34-7
In this hybrid drama and poetry collection, Colgate “writes in rigorous and experimental verse to upend our understandings of desire, race, disability, and care.”
Lantana; or, the indissoluble exhalation by bruno darío
Translated from the Spanish by Kit Schluter
Ugly Duckling Presse | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-16-3
This trilogy of poetry books “centers on the relationship of a young man (the Inconsolable) and an older woman who unexpectedly takes her own life (Lantana/Anfitriona).”
The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster by Dale Going
Codhill Press | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949933-30-7
Going’s poetry collection “reflects with lyric grace and formal innovation on the reverberating trauma and long-term effects of illness.”
Split Daughter of Eve by Catherine Gonick
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-16-4
This poetry collection “describes a lifelong attempt to arrive at a sense of soul, self, and worldly identity, from an initial dark mess of imposed meanings.”
Parade of Storms by Evelyn Lau
Anvil Press | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77214-245-7
“Weather, both physical and emotional, forms the backdrop” to Lau’s poetry collection, written when “the recent effects of climate change became more and more intrusive and unavoidable.”
Mapping the Borderlands: Haibun & Tanka Prose by Barbara Sabol
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-962405-15-7
The poems in this collection “live at the edge of an impassable boundary between human and animal worlds.”
Tupelo Press | June 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961209-26-8
This novel “enacts an incisive and moving exploration into what it means to be human in the age of AI and increasing transhumanism.”
Putting the Pieces Together by Sharon Whitehill
Fernwood Press | June 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-161-6
According to Carol Drummond, “readers will find a resonant exploration of sorrow, renewal, and rejuvenation that invites them to reflect on the intricate pieces of their own lives” in this poetry collection.
Charlottesville: An American Story by Deborah Baker
Graywolf Press | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-341-4
In this book, Baker “shows how a city more associated with Thomas Jefferson than civil unrest became a flashpoint in a continuing struggle over our nation’s founding myths.”
Juvenilia by Hera Lindsay Bird
Deep Vellum | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-377-3
This debut “wrangles the flamboyant, provocative pique of youth into a poetry collection highly focused and desperately alive.”
Bodock: Stories by Robert Busby
Hub City Press | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 9798885740517
According to Tom Franklin, Busby “has affixed his own postage stamp to the great and troubled state of Mississippi” in this collection of short stories.
Black Lesbian in White America and Other Writing by Anita Cornwell
Sinister Wisdom | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-944981-89-1
This new reprint of Cornwell’s 1983 essay collection includes previously unpublished poetry and an introduction by Briona Simone Jones, as well as an interview between Cornwell and Audre Lorde.
Rural Astronomy by Georgann Eubanks
EastOver Press | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-958094-57-0
The poems in Eubanks’ collection “shift between childhood memories and her contemporary observations of the ongoing clash between Nature and human entitlement.”
To Hell with Poverty!: A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four by Jon King
Akashic Books | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63614-234-0
This memoir “documents King’s story from a south London slum and working-class background to international success as core musician, lyricist, writer, and producer in the legendary post-punk/funk band Gang of Four.”
When I Was a King by John Krumberger
Fernwood Press | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-159-3
The poems in this collection “take readers through the worst darkness that life can give a person, finding a bright light shining on the other side.”
Dzanc Books | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-938603-31-0
This short fiction anthology edited by Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley is a “celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi.”
Dyke Delusions: Essays & Observations by Samantha Mann
Read Furiously | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960869-16-6
This collection is “a mix of body politics, motherhood, and feminine sexuality that showcases some of Samantha Mann’s published work and brand new essays.”
Angel Eye by Madeleine Nakamura
Red Hen Press | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939096-21-0
In this novel, Nakamura “plunges readers back into her spellbinding series, where Professor Adrien Desfourneaux’s journey through peril, passion, and dark magic takes a thrilling new turn.”
Paradise Once: A Novel by Olive Senior
Akashic Books | June 3, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63614-227-2
This historical novel “brings to life the resiliency of the indigenous Taíno people in the Caribbean whose culture was virtually destroyed within two generations of their ‘discovery’ by Christopher Columbus in 1492.”
Tree Fall with Birdsong by Kendall Dunkelberg
Fernwood Press | June 4, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-160-9
This collection explores “the natural world around the poet’s home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled.”
Fernwood Press | June 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-162-3
According to Lorcan Black, this poetry collection is an “unflinching masterwork of unpicking the familial ties, the ‘white lies,’ we live with and how we forge ourselves separate from them.”
Jonah’s Map of the Whale and Other Poems by Anthony Doyle
Old Scratch Press | June 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957224-54-1
In this poetry collection, “sea-born metaphors shimmer with heartbreak, absurdity, and revelation across the tide pools of memory and myth.”
Future Tense Books | June 6, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9986256-0-2
“Born out of a fascination with common sayings, turns of phrase, and the absurd,” this collection of prose poetry is about “love, family, assurance, and doubt.”
Wild Nest, No Prison by Marita O’Neill
Deerbrook Editions | June 7, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9903529-4-0
According to Betsy Sholl, the poems in this collection “lead to wisdom and a deep caring for all who are lost or wayward or vulnerable, animal and human.”
The Shortest Stories: A midwife writes birth haiku on each beginning by Janelle Alier
Good Printed Things | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9921993-2-1
This poetry collection “captures the fleeting, transformative moments of birth through the elegance of haiku.”
dispersed holdings | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-986799-03-2
This poetry collection “records the results of nine computational ‘gyms,’ each intended to challenge and strengthen a particular aspect of the subject’s poetic musculature.”
BOA Editions | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960145-49-9
This collection features “linked stories that indict the ultraconservative movement that emerged at the end of the Cold War and extends into present day.”
We Are Not Where We Are by Matt Donovan and Jenny George
Bull City Press | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949344-59-2
In this chapbook collection, Donovan and George “perform a chapter-by-chapter erasure of Walden, challenging its deeply flawed beliefs about individualism, the natural world, and relationships between people and the land.”
On the Invisible Palm of God by Joseph Hurka
Vine Leaves Press | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-153-4
This memoir is about “an enduring friendship, and the hidden resilience of the human spirit that resides within all of us.”
Red Hen Press | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-63628-194-0
According to Norman Dubie, Lemons “continues his relentless exploration into the personal/global linguistic” with this poetry collection.
Midnight Is Not in Everyone’s Reach by António Lobo Antunes
Translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe
Dalkey Archive | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62897-612-0
In this novel set over the course of three days, “our aging narrator has returned to Alto da Vigia to say goodbye to the house where her family spent summers during her childhood.”
Regal House Publishing | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64603-577-9
In this novel, “three women excavate and attempt to reckon with the shared shame and suffering stemming from an unresolved trauma that has cast a profound shadow over their lives.”
Not Long Ago Persons Found by J. Richard Osborn
Bellevue Literary Press | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954276-40-6
In this novel, “the body of a young boy is found floating in a city river with pollen in his lungs from a warm river valley far from the country where he died.”
Iris and the Dead by Miranda Schreiber
Book*hug Press | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-77166-929-0
“Weaving personal memory with magic realism and folklore,” this novel asks: “What if you could look back and tell someone exactly how they changed the course of your life?”
Alice James Books | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949944-73-0
According to Edward Hirsch, this debut poetry collection “dramatizes what it’s like to stand on the outside looking in, to be in a relationship with someone who is incarcerated, to live within a love confined by the state.”
Blu’s Hanging by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Kaya Press | June 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-935717-01-0
“Through the rich, multivocal pidgin of Hawai’i,” this novel “offers an unvarnished look at a life where music, poverty and love share the same home.”
Small Harbor Publishing | June 12, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-48-6
In this collection of hybrid poetry, Jeong explores “grief, music, religion, and the tradition of elegiac writing.”
Recovery Commands by Abby E. Murray
Ex Ophidia Press | June 12, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-218-66786-3
According to Frances Richey, readers of this poetry collection are “guided into a world that has existed as long as armies and military families have been on the planet: the world of the military spouse.”
Death Fluorescence by Julia Bouwsma
Sundress Publications | June 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-951979-74-4
In this poetry collection, Bouwsma “expertly crafts an exploration of life on this Earth woven with the wonders of parasitic worms, Jewish identity, and the persistent neurosis of mice.”
Destroy Me Gently Please by Max Talley
Serving House Books | June 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-947175-87-7
This short story collection follows “troubled drifters, middle-aged dreamers, unreliable narrators, and reliable procrastinators all hoping for a last shot at glory.”
Blood Work and Other Stories by Donald A. Carreira Ching
Bamboo Ridge Press | June 16, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-943756-13-1
The characters in these seventeen short stories “live in a Hawai‘i far removed from tourist postcards, navigating sorrow, displacement, and the weight of generational trauma.”
The Return of Black Nationalism and the Death of White Supremacy by Vincent Adejumo
Feral House | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62731-162-5
In this book, Adejumo “takes readers on a fascinating journey through time, unraveling the rich history of Black Nationalism and its role as a steadfast defense against white supremacy.”
Under the BQE | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9911220-1-6
“Centered around a summer science assignment on stargazing,” this novel “travels from the safe cocoon of a home full of SAT prep books and overprotective parents into the light-polluted slate of the New Jersey night.”
The Ice Moves for No One by Arlo Z. Graves
Quills and Cosmos Press | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-965790-00-7
In this fantasy novel, “the ice moves for no one, the trees do not answer, and the Svall obeys no master.”
Ostraca by Isabell Serafin Krause
Vine Leaves Press | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-155-8
This short fiction collection is about “remembering not just the past, but the complexities of the human heart.”
Junah at the End of the World by Dan Leach
Hub City Press | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 9798885740494
In this novel taking place months before Y2K, “Junah’s eccentric teacher tasks each of her students to make a time capsule in a shoe box to document their experiences in South Carolina at the end of the world.”
Deep Vellum | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62897-452-2
This novel is about “the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State.”
The Journalist by Harry Mathews
Deep Vellum | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62897-609-0
“A blend of postmodern metafiction and old-style bedroom farce,” this novel “explores the elusive, sometimes illusive, boundaries between facts and the fictions we weave around them.”
All the Lands We Inherit by Darby Price
Black Lawrence Press | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-62557-160-1
In this memoir, Price “investigates the ways that matrilineal legacy have shaped her mother, and how that shaping comes to bear on the author herself.”
Elixir: New and Selected Poems by Aaron Shurin
Nightboat Books | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64362-276-7
This collection of poems “draws from a dozen books over a period of fifty years, presciently investigating issues of gender, homosexuality, identity, and subjectivity via ecstatic diction, luxurious sound-scape, creative grammar, and radical form.”
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà
Translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem
Graywolf Press | June 17, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-343-8
According to Catherine Lacey, this novel is “forged from the deepest and truest stories about the perversity of the body, the sheer drama of the natural world, and the vengeful side of the divine.”
Reclaiming the Nectar and the Hum by Peg Edera
Fernwood Press | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-59498-166-1
Edera’s poems are “a mother’s guide to loss, an inquiry into generational mysteries, and a song cycle of transformation.”
Vine Leaves Press | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-157-2
This poetry collection is “the yield of almost nine years of notebooks, observations and locations, mostly Athens and Berlin, but a smattering of London, Marrakech, Cameroon and West Bengal.”
PROTOCOLS: An Erasure by Daniela Naomi Molnar
Ayin Press | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-961814-23-3
This book-length poem “transforms the world’s most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an erasure poem exploring essential questions of power, history, and language.”
TERROR COUNTER by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
Deep Vellum | June 24, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64605-379-7
This debut poetry collection “acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.”
Radhika Rages at the Crater School by Chaz Brenchley
Wizard’s Tower Press | June 26, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-917950-01-5
In this young adult science fiction novel, “The Crater School has taken in children from all across the province, which means from many different cultures and creeds, but never yet a half-Indian army brat who absolutely doesn’t want to be there.”
Glass Labyrinth by Hailey Spencer
Thirty West Publishing House | June 27, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9895422-8-4
According to Beth Cato, this “choose-your-own-adventure” poetry collection is an “ethereal meditation on loneliness, grief, and the relentless swirl of life.”
