Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in March 2024 from CLMP members.
Extremely Expensive Mystical Experiences for Astronauts by Dara Barrois/Dixon
Conduit Books & Ephemera | March 1, 2024
The poems in this collection “honor and pay homage to poetry itself for being available to us when we need it to do what only it can do in the way it does.”
Country Songs for Alice by Emma Binder
Tupelo Press | March 1, 2024
In this poetry chapbook, “a nonbinary, queer narrator passes through the crucible of love, romance, and heartbreak against the backdrop of rural America.”
The Song Cave | March 1, 2024
In her second poetry collection, Hunt “intimately chronicles the effects of love, labor, and grief on the life and sensibility of an artist.”
Wandering Aengus Press | March 1, 2024
According to Martha Silano, in this poetry collection “we are invited to consider the trauma of war, genocide, and The Holocaust, how ‘What stories aren’t told are lived’ and ‘Memories course the umbilicus.'”
Shake the Atmosphere to Reclaim an Empty Moment by Caroline Reddy
Pierian Springs Press | March 1, 2024
In this debut poetry collection, Reddy “gives us poems about healing and transformation after trauma.”
Journey to Mexico: Revolutionary Messages & the Tarahumara by Antonin Artaud
Translated from the French by Rainer J. Hanshe
Contra Mundum Press | March 4, 2024
Edited by Stuart Kendall, this book chronicles Artaud’s “journey to Mexico that would take him from the streets, cafés, and lecture halls of Mexico City to the remote mountains of the Sierra Tarahumara.”
The Scarecrow of My Former Self by Sarah Stockton
Moonpath Press | March 4, 2024
According to Jeannine Hall Gailey, Stockton “presents a portrait of a life not defined by illness but circumscribed by it; a hybrid life of hospital visits and encounters with crystal healers, coyotes, iguanas.”
The Midnight Mechanic by Andy Brown
Sea Crow Press | March 5, 2024
Set in Victorian London, The Midnight Mechanic “explores a man’s relentless pursuit to better himself, to escape the muck and make amends, while raising pressing environmental issues that are still pertinent today.”
How You Were Born by Kate Cayley
Book*hug Press | March 5, 2024
This tenth-anniversary edition of How You Were Born, featuring three new stories, explores “the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption.”
History Is Embarrassing by Karen Chase
CavanKerry Press | March 5, 2024
Chase’s essay collection “weaves together threads from one single life—a girl suffering from polio, a poet, a Jewish woman, a writer, and a painter.”
Bad Mexican, Bad American by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Acre Books | March 5, 2024
In Bad Mexican, Bad American, “the minimalist, working-class aesthetic of a ‘disadvantaged Brown kid’ takes wing in prose poems that recall and celebrate that form’s ties to Surrealism.”
The Adventures of the Flash Gang, Episode Two: Treasonous Tycoon by M. M. Downing and S. J. Waugh
Regal House Publishing | March 5, 2024
In this children’s book, the Flash Gang “goes all out to unravel the mystery” of their disappearing friends.
Bite Your Friends: Stories of the Body Militant by Fernanda Eberstadt
Europa Editions | March 5, 2024
This book is “at once a subversive autobiography of a mercurial woman and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power.”
American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley
Etruscan Press | March 5, 2024
In this book, McCann “channels Diane Foley’s voice as she tells her story, as the mother of American journalist Jim Foley—in search of answers, beyond justice, found through dogged, empathetic, spiritual enquiry.”
So You Wanna Run a Country? by Kevin Holohan
Akashic Books | March 5, 2024
Holohan’s science-fictional novel “is a satirical parable of the perils of authoritarianism, nationalism, and device-dependent group-think.”
Counsel Culture by Kim Hye-jin
Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang
Restless Books | March 5, 2024
This novel is “the contemplative, superbly-crafted story of a woman scapegoated by sudden tragedy, and the unexpected paths she must wander in search of redemption.”
Milkweed Editions | March 5, 2024
In these poems, Joudah “offers multiple ways of seeing the world through a Palestinian lens—a world filled with ordinary desires, no matter how grand or tragic the details may be—and asks their reader to be changed by them.”
Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark by Michael Löwy
Haymarket Books | March 5, 2024
In these essays, “Löwy follows Luxemburg in blending diverse intellectual disciplines—philosophy, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and economics—to make sense of global realities in her time and our own.”
Joyce Carol Oates: Letters to a Biographer by Joyce Carol Oates
Akashic Books | March 5, 2024
According to Elaine Showalter, “in a stream of intimate correspondence with another writer, we witness the workings of Joyce Carol Oates’s vast mind and great heart.”
Once in the Blue Moon by Virginia Miller Reeves
Deep Vellum | March 5, 2024
“Set in 1940s Oklahoma on a red dirt cotton farm,” Once in the Blue Moon “is grounded in the realities of life near the end of World War II.”
My Heavenly Favorite by Lucas Rijneveld
Translated from the Dutch by Michele Hutchison
Graywolf Press | March 5, 2024
Rijneveld’s novel “tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his ‘Favorite’—the farmer’s daughter.”
Graywolf Press | March 5, 2024
Seuss’s latest poetry collection “investigates our time’s deep isolation and divisiveness and asks: What can poetry be now? Do poems still have the capacity to mean?”
The Everywhere Atom: A Journey Through the Carbon Cycle and Climate Change by Christine Shearer
Haymarket Books | March 5, 2024
This children’s book is “a wild ride with the carbon atom through a history of Earth’s climate, from dinosaurs to wooly mammoths to today’s climate crisis.”
Pour One for the Devil: A Gothic Novella by Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr.
Lanternfish Press | March 5, 2024
According to Kimberly Davis Basso, “What should be a simple visit by an academic to a Carolina island historical society becomes a gothic nightmare with a Chicago twist.”
Nest of Matches by Amie Whittemore
Autumn House Press | March 5, 2024
The poems in this collection “bask in the beauty of nature, queerness, and love while exploring how dichotomies form identity.”
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling by Marguerite Young
Dalkey Archive Press | March 5, 2024
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is “a picaresque, psychological novel—a novel of the road, a journey or voyage of the human spirit in its search for reality in a world of illusion and nightmare.”
Tangled in Vow & Beseech by Jill McCabe Johnson
Moonpath Press| March 8, 2024
According to Craig Santos Perez, in these poems “McCabe Johnson writes intimately about family, nature, and animals, while also protesting the violences of religion, patriarchy, and racism.”
Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art by Erica N. Cardwell
Feminist Press | March 12, 2024
Cardwell’s book is a “hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as a means to explore loss, legacy, and the reclamation of life through art.”
Milkweed Editions | March 12, 2024
This collection is “an aching meditation on the cyclical nature of grief and memory’s limited capacity to preserve everything time takes from us.”
Florida Man: Poems, Revisited by Tyler Gillespie
Burrow Press | March 12, 2024
In the second edition of his poetry collection, Gillespie “strips away the accepted myths of his home state and its inhabitants in poems centered on Florida’s history and culture.”
L’Air du Temps (1985) by Diane Josefowicz
Regal House Publishing | March 12, 2024
In this novella set in 1985, “the shooting of Mr. Marfeo disrupts the quiet suburban neighborhood of Maple Bay and prompts thirteen-year-old Zinnia Zompa to reorganize everything she knows about her parents.”
The Last Saturday in America by Ray McManus
Hub City Press | March 12, 2024
In this novel, McManus “draws a portrait of American masculinity in the face of political division, pandemic, and cultural warfare.”
American Inmate: The Album by Justin Rovillos Monson
Haymarket Books | March 12, 2024
Monson’s debut collection “subverts contemporary discourse and representations of incarceration, of hip-hop, and of Asian American culture and literature.”
A Ten Peso Burial for Which Truth I Sign by Gabriel Palacios
Fonograf Editions | March 12, 2024
In this debut poetry collection, Palacios “slipstreams through a hauntological, historicized Southwest, to make sense out of the life inherited.”
Europa Editions | March 12, 2024
This fully illustrated volume “collects the best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from around the world” and “dives deep into the complex issues and contradictions facing the Mediterranean.”
Flight of the Wild Swan by Melissa Pritchard
Bellevue Literary Press | March 12, 2024
Flight of the Wild Swan “tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend.”
The Architecture of Modern Empire: Conversations with David Barsamian by Arundhati Roy
Haymarket Books | March 12, 2024
This newly reissued and expanded edition, featuring interviews from 2001 to 2022 and a foreword by Naomi Klein, “explores Roy’s evolving political thought and commitments across the tumultuous twenty-first entry.”
Book*hug Press | March 12, 2024
This poetry collection “interprets the voices of women vilified over time, silenced by famous husbands, forced into sex work, or wrongly accused.”
Letters from Conflict by Lisa Stice
Middle West Press | March 12, 2024
In this collection, “a seasoned North Carolina poet and spouse of a U.S. Marine shares intimate insights and observations on creating history, family, community, and art.”
A Whale Is a Country by Isabel Zapata
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
Fonograf Editions | March 12, 2024
Zapata’s debut English-language poetry collection “explores humanity’s relationship to the natural world through a multitude of poignant angles.”
Your Story Starts Here: Years on the Brink with Generation Z by Jim Zervanos
Vine Leaves Press | March 12, 2024
In this high-school teacher’s journal, “we witness ‘his kids’ grappling with pressing issues like identity politics, gun violence, and political uncertainty.”
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Warbler Press | March 14, 2024
First published in 1895, and featuring an afterword by Amy Kaplan, this novel “chronicles the repercussions of war on the individual and collective psyche.”
Adam in the Garden by AE Hines
Charlotte Center for Literary Arts | March 14, 2024
The poems in this collection “are rich in both eros and pathos as the poet explores queer love and joy that is hard won.”
The Animal Is Chemical by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
In these poems, Bar-Nadav “draws on her own experience as a medical editor and her family’s history of Holocaust survival to write into the hybrid legacy of Western medicine: part clinical empiricism, part human fallibility and moral bankruptcy.”
Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? by Cyrus Cassells
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
This poetry collection “is the apotheosis of Cassells’s work to elevate the mundane and the bodily to the exalted, his vigorous lyrics a routine ecstasy.”
The Sorrow Apartments by Andrea Cohen
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Cohen’s eighth collection “is home to spare and uncanny lyricism—as well as leaping narratives of mystery and loss and wonder.”
Nowhere Was a Lake by Margaret Draft
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Draft’s debut poetry collection is “captivated by the simultaneously routine and disruptive nature of violence and desire.”
My Life in Brutalist Architecture by John Gallaher
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
This poetry collection “confronts the truth of the author’s adoption after a lifetime of concealment and deceptions with lucid candor, startling humor, and implacable grief.”
Black Lawrence Press | March 15, 2024
Garcia’s collection is “a response to a kind of annunciation, the almost supernatural calling of the artist to find words through which the self is free to move.”
Truth Be Told by Linda Susan Jackson
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Jackson’s collection “looks at the myriad treasures and complexities of Black womanhood by channeling an eclectic cast whose rich interactions testify to the timeless neglect of girlhood, the bond of long-term friendship and the responsibilities of authorship.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
“Structured around the twelve parshiyot (portions) of Genesis,” this poetry collection “parallels immersion in Jewish teachings with the contemporary world.”
Another Land of My Body by Rodney Terich Leonard
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
These poems “witness aging, champion the resilience of desire, articulate Black Southern identity, memorialize the unequal burdens of the pandemic across racial and socioeconomic strata, and preserve the time capsule of one’s particular memories that will depart with them when they go.”
We Are All Sleeping with Our Sneakers On by Matthew Lippman
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
The poems in Lippman’s latest collection “embrace mess as an inevitability of authentic living and human interconnection.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Rico’s poems “compose a personal history and a deconstruction of global capitalism as articulated through an encyclopedia of birds.”
Middle Creek Publishing & Audio | March 15, 2024
This collection is “a beautiful organic invocation and tribute to the other-than-human kin of our world, a bow of respect and gratitude for the richness they bring to the places the poet experiences them.”
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
Spark’s novel is “inspired by the life and family of Walt Kuhn (the painter responsible for the 1913 Armory Show that introduced Americans to modernism) and the scandal-ridden Elan boarding school that was forced to shut down in 2011.”
How to Abandon Ship by Sasha West
Four Way Books | March 15, 2024
In How to Abandon Ship, West “harnesses poetry as a vessel to ferry the inconceivable, to wreck upon the shores of what we’ve known thus far.”
The Hebrew Teacher: Three Novellas by Maya Arad
Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Cohen
New Vessel Press | March 19, 2024
In these novellas, all “comedies of manners with an ambitious blend of irony and sensitivity,” Arad “probes the demise of idealism and the generation gap that her heroines must confront.”
Milkweed Editions | March 19, 2024
Fisher’s poetry collection “expertly discerns the monumentalizing portrayals of history and its violences, while boldly illuminating other crucial accounts of everyday existence.”
The Tree Doctor by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Graywolf Press | March 19, 2024
This novel is “full of bodily pleasure, intense observation of nature, and a profound reckoning with the passage of time both within ourselves and in the world we inhabit.”
Translated from the French by Erín Moure
Book*hug Press | March 19, 2024
This is “a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love.”
What the Living Do by Susan Wadds
Regal House Publishing | March 19, 2024
According to Alissa York, this is “a fierce and fearless novel about a woman drawn to self-destruction yet desperate to live—and maybe even love.”
Vine Leaves Press | March 19, 2024
This memoir “honors the grace of a face that stands out in a crowd, defying societal beauty norms.”
Sensitive Creatures by Kirsten Reneau
Belle Point Press | March 19, 2024
These essays are “at once clinical and lyrical reflections on the ways that desire can permeate our lives for better or worse, as well as how it can be channeled into a lifegiving force for women in a world often hostile to their basic needs.”
The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts by Dewitt Henry
Pierian Springs Press | March 21, 2024
This novel “tells the story of a 36-year-old Philadelphia woman whose quiet, working-class life is suddenly shaken by the death of her widowed father and by her younger sister’s takeover of the family home.”
Below the Falls by Ross McMeekin
Thirty West Publishing | March 22, 2024
In these stories, American landscapes are “a vital background for characters faced with conflicts that cannot be easily resolved, illuminating interior worlds filled with contradiction.”
Feather Rousing by Rebecca Meacham
Black Lawrence Press | March 26, 2024
This hybrid of historical fiction and personal memoir “nests in the spaces between caretaking and grief, secret and spectacle, recollection and imagination, global anguish and private joy.”
Oh Witness Dey! by Shani Mootoo
Book*hug Press | March 26, 2024
These poems “transcend the tropes of colonial violence through saints and spices, rebellion and joy, to reimagine tensions and solidarities among various diasporas.”
I ask about what falls away by Jason Magabo Perez
Kaya Press | March 26, 2024
Perez’s second poetry collection is “an extended elegy set in the alleyways and Pacific-bound boulevards of San Diego, California during the current global health crisis.”
Autumn House Press | March 26, 2024
This book of 16 stories is “a humane, absurd, and timely collection of narratives centering on women’s bodies and psyches.”
Regal House Publishing | March 26, 2024
In this novel, “when Madison and Elliot’s affair is exposed, the news sends shockwaves that will rock their lives and the lives of those around them.”
Houdini’s Last Handcuffs by Charlie and Cheryl Young
Vine Leaves Press | March 26, 2024
Weaving historical fiction and fantasy, this novel follows children who summon Houdini “via an enigmatic pair of handcuffs from their father’s magic collection.”
Black Lawrence Press | March 29, 2024
This poetry collection “interrogates dictionary definitions and the messy function of memory, reclaiming and redefining language to discover the self.”
Ghost Man on Second by Erica Reid
Autumn House Press | March 29, 2024
Reid’s debut collection “traces a daughter’s search for her place in the world after estrangement from her parents.”
The Last Philosopher in Texas: Fictions and Superstitions by Daniel Chacón
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2024
In this short fiction collection, Chacón “weaves a rich tapestry of insightful stories and superstitions that brims with humor and the mystical.”
The Ballad of Gato Guerrero by Manuel Ramos
Arte Público Press | March 31, 2024
Originally published in 1994, this second installment in the Luis Montez Mystery series “takes readers on a wild ride through Denver’s mean streets and deadly encounters with young gangbangers.”
