Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in June 2026.
Heaven off the Coast by M. S. A. Bacon
Fuente Fountain Books | June 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-0-9843756-2-2
In this novel, a sixty-year-old woman’s return to Okinawa “with her elderly mother, surfer brother, and conservative Christian niece is rocked by mystic calls from their ancestral culture.”
Poetry’s Abracadabra: Essays on Michael Longley
Wake Forest University Press | June 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-943667-20-8
Written by ten poets and scholars of contemporary Irish poetry, this essay collection edited by Meg Tyler “reveals new insights into Longley’s thirteen collections as well as his prose, interviews, and archival material.”
Tulipwood Books | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9914048-6-0
This poetry collection centered on a woman in 1890 “holds ponderosa pines and celestial events, quick encounters of love and longing, and the joyful companionship of the self.”
The Fire Agent by David Baerwald
Spiegel & Grau | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966302-00-1
This historical novel “carries us from nineteenth-century German idealism to the onset of chemical warfare; from Japan’s organized crime syndicates to FDR’s spy networks; from the Nanking Massacre to the dawn of the Cold War.”
The Dyke and the Dybbuk by Ellen Galford
Sinister Wisdom | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-944981-91-4
According to Kirkus Reviews, this novel originally published in 1993 is “a fun, feisty, feminist romp through Jewish folklore as an ancient spirit returns to haunt a modern-day London lesbian.”
YesYes Books | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946303-17-2
In this collection, gilbert tells “her grandmother’s story through fragment, ephemera, history, and the imaginary, looking past the spectacle of the murdered woman and into the things that come, like ripples, after.”
Summer in Cranberry Harbor by Candace Hammond
Sea Crow Press | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961864-56-6
“Brimming with coastal charm,” the third novel in the Cranberry Harbor Series is “a perfect seaside escape celebrating connection, community and the enduring magic of small-town life.”
Let Other Hounds: Poems Breaking Silence Fifty Years After Sexual Abuse at Church by Scott LaMascus
Fernwood Press | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-202-6
In his debut collection of poetry, LaMascus “breaks silence as an accomplished husband and father who has learned much about the aftermath of boyhood sexual abuse.”
Everyday Magic by Shakira Maharaj
Catalyst Press | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960803-48-1
According to Ann Angel, this picture book illustrated by Karen Vermeulen and “focused on making a family through adoption brings home the realities of a couple’s growing love and understanding of parenting as they navigate what it means to adopt.”
La Cuenta Mundo / The World Counting by Gabriela Mistral
Translated from the Spanish by Doreen Stock
The Poetry Box | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968610-23-4
The poems in this collection “speak to a newborn baby of the elemental things of our world, touching on the most powerful forces in the universe: light, water, air, fire.”
Santa Fe Writers Project | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-951631-61-1
In this romance novel, “Ahilya’s independent career as an epidemiologist for the WHO causes constant friction with her family’s desire for her to ‘settle down and marry.’”
Dreams in Which I’m Almost Human by Hannah Soyer
Red Hen Press | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63628-474-3
According to Rebekah Taussig, Soyer’s memoir “generously and whimsically offers a timely examination of life—rich, complicated life—in a vulnerable body.”
Read Furiously | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960869-25-8
“With wit, vulnerability, and a feminist eye for the ridiculous,” Teets’s debut collection of essays “explores what happens when you refuse to play the role society assigns you.”
Without Terminus by chaun webster
Graywolf Press | June 2, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-392-6
In this hybrid essay collection, webster traces “the ways structural anti-Black violence has shaped his inheritance, and grapples with the question of how to know—and mourn—the kin he was never able to meet.”
Vamoose: Stories by Kathy Anderson
Vine Leaves Press | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-206-7
“Filled with crackling humor and surprising loves,” this short fiction collection contains “fifteen stories of women leading lives of self-determination, small triumphs, and subversive pleasures.”
Children of Fire by Shahrzad Arshadi and Anna Chatterton
Book*hug Press | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77166-978-8
According to Ayelet Tsabari, this collection is a “boundary-defying, genre-bending work that tells the extraordinary stories of Kurdish female freedom fighters and their fight for liberation.”
Sundress Publications | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-951979-89-8
This poetry collection is “meditative, cleansing, and compulsively readable: recounting a feminine childhood transformed into something monstrous until seen through a new lens.”
Black Lawrence Press | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-218-9
This collection of linked short stories traces the lives of “women and men as they navigate exile, marriage, violence, and love in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.”
Nothing Is Stationary by Joanne Esser
Holy Cow! Press | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-66640-698-6
“Even as they reflect on the past and live fully in the present,” the poems in this collection “proclaim, sometimes reluctantly, that change is a biological constant, an emotional condition, and a spiritual conundrum.”
Imagine a Woman by Dorothy Neagle
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966075-16-5
“Organized around four feminine archetypes—the Virgin, the Mother, the Prophet, and the Whore,” these poems “offer a multi-storied perspective on the many ways a woman is defined.”
We Want So Much to Be Ourselves by Stephen O’Connor
Bellevue Literary Press | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954276-58-1
This historical novel is “an absorbing investigation into the Nazis’ exploitation of psychoanalysis, and a cautionary tale about self-deception and the failures of a people to recognize the lies of their charismatic leader.”
Excursus: Selected Prose by John Peck
Black Square Editions | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9860370-9-7
The prose works compiled in this collection are a “marvel of critical insight and philosophical and psychological gravity, laying out their arguments in exceptional detail and persuasive ingenuity.”
People Who Live Alone Talk Too Much by Sofi Stambo
Restless Books | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63206-417-2
In these short stories, “immigrants to New York City work their way through absurd situations into even messier ones, communing with their fellow diners, officemates, and the local cemetery geese, and greeting chaos with a grin.”
Graywolf Press | June 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-394-0
According to Donna Seaman, this novel tells a “crystalline, poetic, witty, and haunting post-depopulation tale of loss, adaptation, unexpected beauty, and surpassing love.”
Kelsey Street Press | June 10, 2026
ISBN: 978-0-932716-93-4
This hybrid collection is an “experimental text that fuses the speaker’s transcontinental and matrilineal lines with the discourses of the speaker’s own reproductive body alongside the bodies of her daughters.”
If a Dolphin by Lindsay Remee Ahl
The Word Works | June 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946276-01-8
According to Joanne Dominique Dwyer, these poems are “narrated by a girl drowned in a lake who continues to age in the afterlife and is capable of time travel, by the lifeguard who could not save her, by dolphins, World War II spies and occasionally by Ahl herself.”
Faithful Error by Sarah Louise Garrido
The Center for Literary Publishing | June 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966618-00-3
“Exploring the tension between freedom and fidelity,” this poetry collection “meditates on life’s most sacred and often difficult loves—romantic, parental, familial, and spiritual—against a backdrop of environmental unease.”
Eclipse Season by Karin Gottshall
Conduit Books & Ephemera | June 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9883272-8-8
This poetry collection is a “stunning and restless meditation on a speaker tormented (and seduced) by memory, attempting to orient and reckon in the present moment.”
My First Bikini by Elena Medel
Translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis
Scrambler Books | June 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-0-578-16389-5
“Out of print in the United States for the last few years, this is a newly revised and updated bilingual edition” of the poetry collection originally published in Spain.
Wisteria: Complete Works 2000–2020 by Úrsula Starke
Translated from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas
Diálogos / Lavender Ink | June 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-956921-74-8
This poetry collection “offers scenes of enormous literary force: interior landscapes converted into architecture, reflections about madness and the body, and a constant questioning of identity.”
Stegosaurus Moon by Scott Beal
Dzanc Books | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-938603-78-5
Beal’s poetry collection “builds into an examination of how the language of queer identity can be weaponized or can open space for more expansive ways to live and love.”
Dalkey Archive Press | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62897-649-6
This novel tells stories about the inhabitants of the Irish town of Killoyle, accompanied by “hundreds of acerbic, hilarious footnotes from a nameless figure who rudely comments upon the characters and events.”
The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo by Zen Cho
Homeward Books | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9994249-2-1
“It’s the Roaring Twenties, and writer Jade Yeo is exploring all the passions and perils of London high society” in this novel “brimming with social commentary and rife with wit.”
sipéstisyon by Mckendy Fils-Aimé
YesYes Books | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946303-15-8
“Rooted in Haitian superstition and shaped by the echoes of generational trauma,” the poems in this collection “weave between languages, landscapes, and histories,” according to Diannely Antigua.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Letters Rescued from a Fire by Mark Fleckenstein
Unsolicited Press | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-83-3
This poetry collection is an “archive of emotional residue: a book about the conversations that continue long after silence takes over, and about the ways art attempts to rescue meaning from what could not be saved.”
Bottom Feeders by Arielle Hebert
Black Lawrence Press | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-219-6
Hebert’s debut poetry collection set in late 2000s Florida captures a “landscape of glitter and grime, where young queer love is tested by the tides of addiction and recovery.”
Starting From Paterson by Garret Keizer
EastOver Press | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-958094-70-9
According to Robert Atwan, this collection of essays connected to Paterson, New Jersey, is “refreshingly propelled not by self-absorption, but by a vigorous and intimate engagement with the surrounding world.”
Alice James Books | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949944-79-2
According to Rebecca Foster, Martino’s “formally inventive debut poetry collection draws on his mother’s journals and 1980s Polaroids to capture a family dynamic overshadowed by divorce and incarceration.”
Red Hen Press | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63628-479-8
In this novel set in 1930s Iran, Rachlin “traces the hidden scars of her family’s history, carved by a system that grants men complete control and strips women of their voices.”
The Coast of Everything by Guillermo Stitch
Sagging Meniscus | June 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963846-38-6
This novel made up of nested stories is “a gumshoe noir, a space opera; a multiverse melodrama, an adventure; a leap of faith, a call to prayer and a call to arms.”
A Plan to Save the World by Hassan Akram
Translated from the Arabic by Ibrahim Fawzy
Sandorf Passage | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 9789533515892
Akram’s debut novel “gazes out through the eyes of a child to explore the period following the American invasion of Iraq in 2003.”
Joyland Editions | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 979–8–992025–85–9
According to Jameson Fitzpatrick, this novella “narrates a bad day at work and meditates on relationships, death, and consciousness.”
A Catalog of Future Mercies by Serena Chopra
Graywolf Press | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-396-4
According to Diana Khoi Nguyen, Chopra “is an orb weaver connecting generations-old fault lines in India with the roots of the grasses in Colorado prairies” in this poetry collection.
Light in the Canyon by Darren Cools
Slant Books | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63982-226-3
According to Patrick Flores-Scott, “an explosion thrusts an expertly-drawn, dynamic, multi-generational cast of characters out of their normal lives and into a voyage of grieving, healing, and growth” in this young adult novel.
In This Moment by Regina Jamison
Gnashing Teeth Publishing | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-966075-15-8
This poetry chapbook “contains verbal snapshots written in response to the injustices faced and ongoing that Black Americans continue to deal with in America.”
Brother Epistles by Shanda McManus
Split/Lip Press | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-952897-51-1
This poetry collection centered on the murder of McManus’s brother “is a powerful meditation on Black identity, the criminalization of Black boys, and the devastating ripple effects of a tragic loss on the loved ones left behind.”
The Beginnings by Antonio Moresco
Translated from the Italian by Max Lawton
Deep Vellum | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64605-395-7
“From our narrator’s undergraduate years in seminary school, to his activities as a member of various Italian political factions, to his attempts to become a writer,” this novel is a “shapeshifting journey across the 20th century.”
Unsolicited Press | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-84-0
This novel “opens in the disorienting aftermath of loss: Megan Mostly nearly collapses when she finds her son, Lincoln, awake and watching television in the middle of the night—despite the fact that his funeral was only a week ago.”
Blackwater Press | June 23, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963614-24-4
The stories in this book use “scholarly research, family history, information from local historians, as well as letters and photographs” to “demonstrate how war affects both the great minds of the age as well as the most ordinary of lives.”
My Life in Art by Gleah Powers
Vine Leaves Press | June 24, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-192-3
This collection of essays and visual artworks “offers readers an intimate look at the evolution of an artist’s practice and the mysterious, often unpredictable process through which ideas become images.”
Carthaginian Peace & Other Stories by Evie Christie
Anvil Press | June 25, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77214-212-9
The stories in this collection are “centred in the domestic and every day” and “follow youngish lovers and domestic partners attempting to find a cure for cosmic loneliness in an unstable society.”
A Nation Wrestles with God: American Prophets, Philosophers, and Firebrands
Restless Books | June 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63206-419-6
This anthology edited by Ilan Stavans is a “landmark collection of the philosophers and firebrands that sparked a country’s journey through divinity—praising, challenging, and redefining the sacred.”
Essay Press | June 30, 2026
ISBN: 9798986135298
This collection centered on the late architecture of Louis Sullivan “revives Sullivan’s design practice, recreating his ostentatious, ornate buildings as elaborate concrete poems that spill across the page.”
The Widening Gyre by Amy DeBellis
Lanternfish Press | June 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-941360-99-6
In this historical novel, “a guilty secret haunts young widow Else as she tries to drown her conscience among the glittering lights of 1920s Berlin.”
Department of Dreams: Recent Dystopian Plays from Across the World
Egret | June 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-942281-47-4
The works in this anthology of translated plays by Ebru Nihan Celkan, Bosco Cayo Álvarez, Jeton Neziraj, Karen Malpede, and Wei Yu-Chia “foresee the furthermost assault of authoritarianism.”
Golden Shrapnel by Almir Imširević
Translated from the Bosnian by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Egret | June 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-942281-34-4
According to Faruk Šehić, this novel follows a “survivor of the Sarajevo siege, the recipient of a writer’s residency in a small French town, trying to thread together the loose ends of his life after his father’s death.”
The Mirror in Our Music by Fred L. Joiner
Birds, LLC | June 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-73463-212-5
This illustrated poetry collection is a “full-color do-si-do document chronicling Joiner’s decades of community building and collaboration with countless poets, musicians, artists, photographers, and ancestors.”
Freedom and Confinement: An Interview with Etheridge Knight by Elizabeth Gordon McKim
University of Pittsburgh Press | June 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6792-7
This interview is a “powerful, book-length conversation between poets Elizabeth Gordon McKim and Etheridge Knight, recorded in 1990 as Knight was dying of cancer.”
Vine Leaves Press | June 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-202-9
In this novel, “Emily encounters a naked teenage girl who seems to belong to the forest—one who can speak directly into Emily’s mind and lives in fear of dark beasts patrolling the borders of her world.”
