Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in March 2023 from CLMP members.
All the Woods’ Wild: The Story of the Swamp Witch of Maurepas by Jack B. Bedell
Belle Point Press | March 1, 2023
In this poetry chapbook, “Bedell crafts a story through sonnets that leaves us feeling like we know a woman who never lived—and never died.”
The Lady of Elche by Amanda Berenguer
Translated from the Spanish by Kristin Dykstra
Veliz Books | March 1, 2023
Presented bilingually for the first time, this 1987 poetry collection “drips with prophecy still relevant to our own time.”
Migrations and Other Exiles by Letisia Cruz
Lost Horse Press | March 1, 2023
Winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry, Migrations and Other Exiles “questions the contradictory nature of human love.”
In the Cities of Sleep by Elizabeth C. Herron
Fernwood Press | March 1, 2023
In the Cities of Sleep is “a collection of poems centered on the ramifications of a warming world.”
A Violin from the Other Riverside by Dmytro Kremin
Translated from the Ukrainian by Svetlana Lavochkina
Lost Horse Press | March 1, 2023
Each poem in this bilingual collection is “akin to a dictionary entry on Ukraine composed in complex and intellectually laden—yet colourful and virtuosic—light-footed verse.”
Autumn House Press | March 2, 2023
This poetry collection is “a collage of the journeys and interior lives of various wanderers—from Ishmael, the son of Hagar, to Melville’s Ishmael, and from Pierre of The Ambiguities to Pierre Guyotat.”
Mississippi River Museum by Keith Pilapil Lesmeister
WTAW Press | March 2, 2023
According to Benjamin Anastas, this short fiction collection “is a gut punch of an American story, set in a corner of northeast Iowa that simmers with menace and a slow-moving beauty.”
Lost Reflection by Dennis Callaci
Bamboo Dart Press | March 5, 2023
The seven stories in this collection “are sewn together with characters whose reflections on the past are not to be trusted.”
A Noble Cunning: The Countess and the Tower by Patricia Bernstein
History Through Fiction | March 7, 2023
This historical fiction novel tells “of one woman’s tremendous courage and incomparable wit in trying to rescue her husband from the Tower of London the night before he is to be executed.”
Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World by Eliane Brum
Translated from the Portuguese by Diane Whitty
Graywolf Press | March 7, 2023
This essay collection is “a confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.”
Emma and the Queen of Featherstone by Lindsay Fryc
Orange Blossom Publishing | March 7, 2023
In this children’s book, “Emma must navigate her new assignment of guarding her new planet from portal intruders while also figuring out what the Kabiren are hiding.”
Heating the Outdoors by Marie-Andrée Gill
Translated from the French by Kristen Renee Miller
Book*hug Press | March 7, 2023
This collection of micropoems “describes the yearnings for love, the domestic monotony of post-breakup malaise, and the awkward meeting of exes.”
Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent
Feminist Press | March 7, 2023
In this memoir, Kent “unpacks the kind of compounded problems you face when you’re a fat, Black, queer woman in a society obsessed with heteronormativity.”
Maker of Heaven & by Jason Myers
Belle Point Press | March 7, 2023
This debut poetry collection “explores the implications of how we might experience the Imago Dei in the midst of a culture fraught with racism, violence, and the simple limits of our human frailty.”
Translated from the German by Lucy Jones
Transit Books | March 7, 2023
Reimann’s first novel to appear in English is “a story of sibling love ruptured by the Iron Curtain.”
The Beautiful Misfits by Susan Reinhardt
Regal House Publishing | March 7, 2023
Set “in the gorgeous mountains of Asheville N.C.,” this novel will “give hope to those with addicted sons and daughters.”
The History Hotel by Baron Wormser
CavanKerry Press | March 7, 2023
“Touching on topics such as the Jewish resistance, Godard films, and the National Football League,” The History Hotel “opens the door to both political and personal histories.”
Graywolf Press | March 7, 2023
In Youn’s latest poetry collection, “one sequence deconstructs the sounds and letters of the word ‘deracinations’ to create a sonic landscape of micro- and macroaggressions, assimilation, and self-doubt.”
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 8, 2023
According to Johan Gallaher, in this lyric essay “Archuleta is witnessing the contemporary, but believing in more.”
The Scorpion’s Question Mark by J. D. Debris
Autumn House Press | March 9, 2023
In this debut poetry collection, Debris “focuses on characters who live on society’s outskirts and demand greater visibility in the face of marginalization.”
Every Transmission by Adam Deutsch
Fernwood Press | March 8, 2023
This debut poetry collection “is about the erosion of our mechanical relationships and the movement to natural forms.”
Wood-Solace, a Return to Belonging by Lisa Lundeen
Plants and Poetry | March 8, 2023
This collection of poetry and photography “models meditation through creativity, encouraging the reader-beholder to savor each pairing in contemplative, restorative stillness and celebration.”
The Hole in the Ocean by Kathleen March
Veliz Books | March 8, 2023
In this short fiction collection, “March’s brief and intimate stories keenly tease mundanity into existential, stark, and oftentimes hilarious buoyancy.”
Promiscuous Ruin by Julian Mithra
WTAW Press | March 9, 2023
In Mithra’s short fiction chapbook, “deer hunters Lemuel and Lars hitch up as backwoods companions” and “edge closer to a blizzard of repressed desire.”
Helen of Bikini by Phoebe Reeves
Lily Poetry Review Books | March 8, 2023
According to Cynthia Bargar, Reeves “showers us with the hard rain of atomic fallout, juxtaposed with a compendium of flora and fauna.”
Five Conversations About Peter Sellers by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Texas Review Press | March 12, 2023
This essay “begins as an exploration of the author’s burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late 60s.”
She Calls the Moon by Its Name by Lonnie Hull DuPont
Fernwood Press | March 13, 2023
This series of poems “follows a nineteenth-century farm woman in spiritual isolation as she finds strength in naming what is alive around her-or even hidden in plain sight.”
Not Yet a Jedi by Partridge Boswell
Kallisto Gaia Press | March 14, 2023
This poetry chapbook “rockets through the late 20th century and into the present with its diction in hyperdrive, fusing whimsy to seriousness, blunt statement to syntactic complexity.”
Indigo Field by Marjorie Hudson
Regal House Publishing | March 14, 2023
In this novel, Hudson “lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of the South, and leads us to a day of reckoning.”
The Glue Trap and Other Poems by Julio Marzán
Fernwood Press | March 14, 2023
The Glue Trap and Other Poems is “a volume in which range should be read as trajectory, the personal and the social as reciprocal metaphors.”
Nights from this Galaxy by Wil Weitzel
Sarabande Books | March 14, 2023
Weitzel’s short fiction collection “captures the spirit of a wild and wonderful planet, while acknowledging our shared fragility and the imminent grief that binds us all.”
If Some God Shakes Your House by Jennifer Franklin
Four Way Books | March 15, 2023
In her third collection, Franklin “reimagines an Antigone for our times.”
To the Boy Who Was Night by Rigoberto González
Four Way Books | March 15, 2023
To the Boy Who Was Night collects the poetry published by Rigoberto González since 1999, including selections from five previous books as well as new work.
Romantic Comedy by James Allen Hall
Four Way Books | March 15, 2023
Hall’s poems “resist the formulaic while paying homage to the oeuvre, a formal balancing act that celebrates queer life.”
When There Was Light by Carlie Hoffman
Four Way Books | March 15, 2023
The poems in Hoffman’s second collection “map out a topography where global movements of diaspora and war live alongside personal reckonings.”
Holding Patterns: A Collection of Words on Ritual
Good Printed Things | March 15, 2023
Edited by Beth Ables and Angie Toole Thompson, this anthology features poems, prose, and short stories “on rituals of every kind, and the ways that they save us, challenge us, and utterly shape who we are.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2023
In this poetry collection, Leigh “strives to reconcile the disconnect between her past and her present as she confronts the inherited violence mired in the body’s history.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2023
So Long “fleshes out a full elegiac register, sitting with the mourning of farewell while holding onto gratitude, remembrance, and a permeating love.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2023
Childcare “explores the paradox at the root of raising kids: the joy of new life accompanies an awareness of potential loss.”
When I Reach for Your Pulse by Rushi Vyas
Four Way Books | March 15, 2023
In this debut collection, “lyric works to untangle slippery personal and political histories in the wake of a parent’s suicide.”
Bodies in Recline by Michael C. Keith
Pelekinesis | March 20, 2023
Bodies in Recline “contains microfiction tales that probe the experience and struggle of humans as they attempt to retain their sanity in a world that frequently conspires against their effort to do so.”
Phantom Advances by Mary Lynn Reed
Split/Lip Press | March 20, 2023
In this short fiction collection, “young queer women travel America’s back roads, roaming through the South, Midwest, New York, and California, while questions of gender and identity ride shotgun.”
Biggest Little Girl by Jodi Angel
Madville Publishing | March 21, 2023
In Angel’s debut novel, “14-year-old Joey has run away from home in smalltown California in search of anything better.”
The Adventures of the Flash Gang: Episode One by M. Downing and S. Waugh
Regal House Publishing | March 21, 2023
In this children’s book, “a Nefarious Deed is afoot, one that threatens the entire country.”
Before All Who Have Ever Seen This Disappear by Michael Gills
Madville Publishing | March 21, 2023
Gills’s fifth novel “plumbs the depths of the Stepwell family tendency toward theatrical catastrophe.”
Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
Graywolf Press | March 21, 2023
The characters in Herrera’s new story collection “inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present.”
Songs for the Gusle by Prosper Mérimée
Translated from the French by Laura Nagle
Frayed Edge Press | March 21, 2023
First published in 1827, La Guzla “purported to be a collection of folktales, ballad lyrics, and travel narratives compiled and translated into French by an anonymous traveler returning from the Balkans.”
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis by Dana Sachs
Bellevue Literary Press | March 21, 2023
Sachs’s book “tells a story of despair and resilience, revealing the humanity within an immense humanitarian disaster.”
The Green Mage: The First Chronicle of Tessia Dragonqueen by Michael Simms
Madville Publishing | March 21, 2023
In this fantasy novel, “Tessia, a skilled hunter, recruits three friends…and sets out on a quest to find a legendary dragon who lives in the mountains.”
The Cloud Notebook by Ada Smailbegović
Litmus Press | March 21, 2023
This debut collection “is a long poem that unfolds from the narrative instability and fracturing that occurs from experiences of forced displacement and war, and from configurations of gender and power.”
Doomsday Dani by Carissa Turpin
Orange Blossom Publishing | March 21, 2023
In this children’s book, Dani must “come to terms with her new reality: her parents’ recent divorce, a blossoming, awkward friendship, and repeated humiliation at the hands of a school bully.”
Book*hug Press | March 22, 2023
Crying Wolf is “a gripping memoir that shares the raw path to recovery after violence and spotlights the ways survivors are too often demonized or ignored when they belong to marginalized communities.”
Ordinary Light by Laura Maher and L.I. Henley
Bamboo Dart Press | March 25, 2023
This poetry chapbook “traces a correspondence of the growing connections of two strangers, uncovering a shared archeological dig of lost loves, regrets, questions, and other half-buried artifacts of memory.”
My Dear Comrades by Sunu Chandy
Regal House Publishing | March 28, 2023
In this poetry collection, Chandy “includes stories about her experiences as a woman, civil rights attorney, parent, partner, daughter of South Asian immigrants, and member of the LGBTQ community.”
This Conversation Is Being Recorded by Hannah Kezema
Game Over Books | March 28, 2023
Kezema’s hybrid debut is “a vibrant collection of poems and erasures of painted, dirtied, and flora-filled legal documents and interview notes from her experiences as an investigator and editor in the insurance fraud industry.”
Generation Exile by Rodrigo Dorfman
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2023
In this memoir Dorman, who was six years old when his family fled Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship, “writes about his experiences as an exile and a migrant.”
Player’s Vendetta by John Lantigua
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2023
In this mystery novel, an investigation “reveals an assortment of suspicious characters who were in Havana when the Players were killed, including a former Cuban spy now living in Little Havana.”
Literature & Politics: Selected Writings by Robert Musil
Translated from the German by Genese Grill
Contra Mundum Press | March 31, 2023
This book “presents Robert Musil’s writings on the relationship between literature and politics from World War I through World War II and elucidates his personal struggle to bear witness during the Age of Totalitarianism.”
A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2023
Edited by Richard Z. Santos, this anthology of horror stories and poems “contains themes impacting Latinos, such as cartel violence and immigration.”
Bookworm: Conversations with Michael Silverblatt by Michael Silverblatt
The Song Cave | March 31, 2023
This book “gathers interviews with some of the most influential luminaries of our time,” including John Ashbery, John Berger, Octavia Butler, Joan Didion, and Carlos Fuentes.
