Books Launching in March 2026


Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in March 2026 from CLMP members.

 

In Their Voices by Charlie Becker

Tofu Ink Arts Press | March 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-958661-34-5

“Rooted in a lifelong kinship with LGBTQ+ literary ancestors,” this poetry collection “explores identity, art, and becoming with both playfulness and resolve.”

 

 

 

Might Could by Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Waywiser Books | March 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-999063-80-9

In this poetry collection, Bell “considers how to make a life in hurricane country, amid a verdant landscape touched by industrial pollution and the climate crisis.”

 

 

 

BODYPOLITIC by Aerik Francis

Abode Press | March 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9900598-9-4

This chapbook of poems “questions what it means to live fully inside one’s own body in a society that seeks to regulate, define, or erase bodies.”

 

 

 

Baltimore by Annie Marhefka

Scrawl Place | March 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-956206-07-4

This book in the Writer In Sites series “is a brief, personal guide and companion” that asks readers to experience Baltimore “from a creative point of view.”

 

 

 

Constant Hum of Elsewhere by Jen Rouse

Small Harbor Publishing | March 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-957248-59-2

According to Kimberly Ann Priest, this poetry collection “flirts with the borders of madness in hallucinatory poems that dote on Anne Sexton, favor the color red, wrangle snakes,” and more.

 

 

 

Volcano Lover by Walt Trask

Tofu Ink Arts Press | March 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-958661-37-6

In these poems, Trask chases inspiration “as a fish pursues an iridescent lure before it disappears from the pull of its line by a mysterious force.”

 

 

 

Sky Tongued Back with Light by Sébastien Luc Butler

Black Lawrence Press | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 9781625572028

This debut poetry chapbook “probes the sites of violence, beauty, and transformation that punctuate a boy’s childhood and adolescence in the rural, northern Midwest.”

 

 

 

The Opposites Game by Brendan Constantine

Red Hen Press | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 9781636283661

Constantine’s fifth poetry collection is “a powerful reminder of the intricate relationship between words and the realities they represent.”

 

 

 

Hide by Carolina Ebeid

Graywolf Press | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-377-3

Hide is “a restless innovation of form and multimodal expression breaking open words across Arabic, English, and Spanish to release hidden meanings.”

 

 

 

Ship in the Sky by Elle Evans

Flare Kids | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-1963511239

Set in the near future, this YA novel follows an eighteen-year-old who wakes “to find an apocalyptic landscape, the earth split open and a violent flood engulfing the farming valley where he lives.”

 

 

 

If Memory Serves: Stories from the Table

Good Printed Things | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9921993-6-9

Featuring forty-two writers and guest-edited by Cynthia Greenlee, this anthology includes “poetry, essays, and short stories exploring the powerful connection between food and memory.”

 

 

 

Hound Triptych by Dani Janae

Sundress Publications | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-951979-86-7

Janae’s debut poetry collection is “a raw exploration of the intricacies of being an adoptee, the accompanying grief, and the destruction and rebuilding of the self through girlhood and into womanhood.”

 

 

 

The West Facade by Lauren C. Johnson

Santa Fe Writers Project | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 9781951631550

In this debut novel set in 1348, “the enchanted statue of Sainte-Geneviève longs to be more than just an object on the Notre-Dame Cathedral.”

 

 

 

MONARCH 2026

fifth wheel press | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-969406-02-7

This new awards anthology recognizes “the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses.”

 

 

 

Reconstructing Eden: A Southern Bastard’s Lyric Journey by Indigo Moor

CavanKerry Press | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960327-18-5

In these poems, which follow a form the author calls Jazz Triptych, Moor “harnesses the anger within himself to perform an exorcism of the childhood that led him inching toward murder in the dizzying racism of his life.”

 

 

 

The Future of Love by John Poch

Slant Books | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 9781639822119

Poch’s eighth poetry collection “is comprised of poems written over the past twenty years, rooted in and inspired by the landscape of Spain, Federico García Lorca’s surrealism, and Pablo Neruda’s eros.”

 

 

 

The South Carolina BBQ Project by Nathan Spainhour

Good Printed Things | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9921993-5-2

This book “blends storytelling, visual research, and cultural history to offer a fresh perspective on one of the South’s most iconic foodways.”

 

 

 

A Change of Pace by J. A. Stevens

Generous Press | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 9798998759611

This sapphic historical romance “reimagines a Regency London free of the entrenched systems of oppression we expect, putting a speculative and hopeful lens onto the past.”

 

 

 

City Like Water by Dorothy Tse

Translated from the Chinese by Natascha Bruce
Graywolf Press | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-375-9

According to Yuri Herrera, Tse’s second novel “addresses a central horror of our times: the overtaking of our cities and people by the powerful.”

 

 

 

Raised by Ferns by Maya Jewell Zeller

Porphyry Press | March 3, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-7367558-7-7 

Zeller’s debut memoir “traces the path of a feral girl craving both freedom and safety to a middle-class adult life shaped by academia, motherhood, and uneasy privilege.”

 

 

 

Holy the Body by Donovan McAbee

TRP: The University Press of SHSU | March 4, 2026
ISBN: 9781680034646

“At once dark and humorous,” McAbee’s poems “confront the religiosity of the US and explore the experience of faithful doubt, as God himself ‘goes under the knife.’”

 

 

 

The Unbelieving Yelp of Prey by Alex Mouw

TRP: The University Press of SHSU | March 4, 2026
ISBN: 9781680034509

“Rooted in the landscape of West Michigan,” the poems in this collection “seek traces of the divine with keen attention to the natural world, science, and personal history.”

 

 

 

But Octopi Don’t Sing by Li Zhuang

Purple Ink Press | March 4, 2026
ISBN: 9798989279371

According to Chen Chen, the poems in this debut chapbook “are gorgeous maximalist monsters.”

 

 

 

Corrective Lenses: for Reading Ethno-botan-ese and Other Incendiary Language by Kathleen Burnham

Green Writers Press | March 5, 2026
ISBN: 9798992398885

In these poems, Burnham “begs for poets to put legs on their penned prayers, for art to become hardware for witchcraft, the works of faith that is alive, irrespective of religion or creed.”

 

 

 

I Could Walk Forever and Know So Little by Krissy Kludt

Green Writers Press | March 5, 2026
ISBN: 9798998517020

In this poetry collection, Kludt “distills moments of communion with the natural world into spare, lilting language.”

 

 

 

watershed by Joel Long

Green Writers Press | March 5, 2026
ISBN: 9798992398861

The essays in this collection “focus on the Great Salt Lake and its beauty, its fragility, and its changing landscape in the face of climate change.”

 

 

 

Sunlight Trapped in Stone by Natalya Sukhonos

Green Writers Press | March 5, 2026
ISBN: 9798998517037

According to Sarah Giragosian, this poetry collection is “a book of witness, of grief and healing, of arrivals and departures and tremendous love.”

 

 

 

Red Seed: Poems for Luno by Cruz Alejandra Lucas Juárez

Translated from the Tutunakú and Spanish by Wendy Call and Whitney DeVos
Cardboard House Press | 2026
ISBN: 978-1-945720-41-3

According to Maricela Guerrero, this trilingual chapbook “expands the powerful presence of Tutunakú roots to open up territories and to interweave desirous bodies, dream relationships, and the memories of women ancestors.”

 

 

 

Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader by Báyò Akómoláfé

Aora Books | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 9781961814318

This collection “offers an accessible and ecstatic entry into a visionary thinker’s signature thought and poetics.”

 

 

 

American Experiment by Aaron Baker

TRP: The University Press at SHSU | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 9781680034561

“Guided by the spirit of Walt Whitman … Baker’s Dantean journey leads him through an ever more perilous underworld of American histories, myths, and mythmakers” in this book-length poem.

 

 

 

My Heart, Hides: A Showboi’s Journey by Jimmy Cullen

Read Furiously | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 9781960869265

In this followup to Cullen’s debut collection, Showboi: Too Deep Too, “we see an extraordinary presence emerge— one filled with resilience, love, and beauty.”

 

 

 

The Shipikisha Club by Mubanga Kalimamukwento

Dzanc Books | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 9781938603754

This novel is “a riveting story of gender politics in Zambia and the world at large—a must-read for fans of Peace Adzo Medie, Abi Daré, and Tayari P. Jones.”

 

 

 

Strap by Dan Kraines

Iron Oak Editions | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9896084-3-0

According to K. Iver, this debut poetry collection is “a gorgeous meditation on sex, power, victimhood, and tenderness.”

 

 

 

I Remember You: Helping Children Think About People Who Aren’t Present by Christine Lin and Elizabeth Waldrum

Et Alia Press | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-944528-21-8

This picture book by two early childhood mental health professionals “helps young children address complex emotions about people they may not be able to spend time with.”

 

 

 

Illegitimate by Maddie Lock

Vine Leaves Press | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-222-7

This memoir “is the true story of two women who had to uncover the identities of their fathers in order to truly understand themselves.”

 

 

 

Long Eye by Kwoya Fagin Maples

Hub City Press | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 9798885740715

In this poetry collection, Maples “explores the intersection of science, poetry, and mythology” and “channels the mythic, defiant voice of a Black Mermaid.”

 

 

 

Centroeuropa by Vicente Luis Mora

Translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery
Bellevue Literary Press | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 9781954276529

“As bodies from past and future wars proliferate exponentially, Redo enlists the aid of eccentric villagers, but risks exposing a precious personal secret and the great love at the heart of it” in this historical novel.

 

 

 

The Banished and the Dead by Anne Leigh Parrish

Unsolicited Press | March 10, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-64-2

Accompanied by illustrations from Kathryn Gerhardt, these poems “invite readers on a journey where emotion and observation intertwine, balancing passion with a keen eye for truth.”

 

 

 

Manure Dreams and Other Essays by Richard Holinger

Choeofpleirn Press | March 12, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9991034-2-0

In this memoir, Holinger’s “self-deprecating sardonic sense of humor helps us smile at his uncomfortable moments, while we find amusement in his astute observations about life and people.”

 

 

 

Rollercoaster of Life by Phyllis Carito

Finishing Line Press | March 13, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-389-2

According to Sandy Longley, Carito “takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride in this collection with twists and turns and ups and downs from childhood to maturity.”

 

 

 

Lately by Charles S. Cobean

Finishing Line Press | March 13, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-392-2

Cobean “looks unflinchingly at the harder parts of life: the death of one’s parents and friends, the unraveling of a marriage, and the challenges of aging,” according to Amie Whittemore.

 

 

 

Good Job by Jessica Farquhar

Finishing Line Press | March 13, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-388-5

According to Kristi Maxwell, in this collection “the poet wills herself and her readers to take notice, to find and make meaning, and to find permission and courage to un-make modes of thinking and being that fail us.”

 

 

 

Between Sunsets by Yvette J. Green

Finishing Line Press | March 13, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-394-6

According to Jenn Koiter, “the women in these poems set aside their own needs and desires to serve others in ways that are alternately beautiful and heartbreakingly toxic.”

 

 

 

Haiku for the Journey by Cynthia Hahn

Finishing Line Press | March 13, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-390-8

In this haiku collection illustrated by Monique Loubet, “we enter a world of sound—where drums thrum and long yawns fall—and a world of image—where a mad rain drowns itself and silken green pages of moss are turning,” according to Kathryn Dohrmann.

 

 

 

Nothing Left to Fix by January Pearson

Finishing Line Press | March 13, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-391-5

According to Kathleen McGoogkey, in these poems Pearson “tells the story of her father’s slow death from a rare illness and its aftermath.”

 

 

 

Printer’s Fist by Melissa Range

Vanderbilt University Press Literary Prize | March 15, 2026
ISBN: 9780826500090

Printer’s Fist is a poetry collection “that tells the story of a political movement—its strides and setbacks, its unity and fractures—with a particular emphasis on print culture.”

 

 

 

Absent Territories by Alejandra Rotondaro

Translated from Spanish to English by Camila Urioste and to French by Daymar Toussaint
Scrambler Books | March 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-0-578-12262-5

This poetry collection “showcases a new Venezuelan voice in this historical moment that manages to propose poetic forms and structures necessary for the reconstruction of a country’s imagery—and that of several generations—that moves the universal and the regional with the same intensity in its images.”

 

 

 

Oracular Maladies by Sophia Terazawa

Noemi Press | March 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-955992-70-1

This poetry collection contemplates “fraught intersections between a mother’s language of Vietnamese and craft considerations of Japanese-English meter.”

 

 

 

Karaoke at the End of the World by Genevieve DeGuzman

JackLeg Press | March 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1956907247

DeGuzman’s poetry collection “takes readers on an intergalactic journey through the multiverse.”

 

 

 

The Spoil by Maile Chapman

Graywolf Press | March 17, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-379-7

The Spoil is “a mesmerizing novel about the perplexities of memory, Las Vegas real estate, DIY projects, and demons.”

 

 

 

Swerving Sizes by Michael Cocchiarale

Unsolicited Press | March 17, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-91-8

This collection of microfictions is divided into two sections: one that “features work in a realistic vein” and one that “features work that is surreal, absurd, and/or structurally innovative.”

 

 

 

The Witch of Prague by J. M. Sidorova

Homeward Books | March 17, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9994249-0-7

This work of magical realism set during the 1968 Prague Spring is “a book about bodily autonomy and the fight against authoritarian regimes everywhere.”

 

 

 

Nothing at All by Olivia Tapiero

Translated from the French by Kit Schluter
Nightboat Books | March 17, 2026
ISBN: 9781643622989

In Nothing at All, “poetic  and essayistic fragments overflow with lyric beauty as they explore how colonialism, illness, and desire intertwine amidst personal and collective suffering.”

 

 

 

Your Own Sky: A Book of Breakups by Beth Gylys

Small Harbor Publishing | March 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-957248-67-7

This poetry collection “explores the many forms heartbreak takes—personal, psychological, political, and even existential.”

 

 

 

All That Blue by Allison Field Bell

Finishing Line Press | March 20, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-396-0

According to Jose Hernandez Diaz, All That Blue “cleverly examines the inherent dilemma of trying to exist freely as a woman in a world of gendered roles and violent realities.”

 

 

 

The Third Remembrance by Jayne Brown

Finishing Line Press | March 20, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-399-1

According to Sandra Fees, Brown “evokes the cadence of speech but with the heightened rhythms of music as she confronts death and aging.”

 

 

 

Man Afield by Jim Krosschell

Prolific Pulse Press | March 20, 2026
ISBN: 9781962374798

This poetry collection is “a lyrical journey through the living world, guided by a backyard naturalist attuned to both wonder and warning.”

 

 

 

but for this mess by Cara Lorello

Finishing Line Press | March 20, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-395-3

According to Chris Cook, “it’s easy to immerse yourself in the elegant descriptiveness, the keen sensory notes, and the unflinching retelling of life’s lowlights and highlights.”

 

 

 

ask river by Sara McAulay

Finishing Line Press | March 20, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-400-4

According to Erin Rodoni, Ask River “winds through origin stories and ecological warnings, shimmers through seasons of fable and flood, doubt and devotion.”

 

 

 

Waning into Winter by Martha Sherick Shen

Finishing Line Press | March 20, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-398-4

According to Bethany Jarmul, Shen “pays intimate attention to nature, celebrating the beauty and wisdom of trees, berries, and roots, of sky, light, and stars.”

 

 

 

a sky with two moons by Suzanne Simons

Finishing Line Press | March 20, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-397-7

Simons “looks outward through the lens of scientific discovery to turn us back to Earth’s joys,” according to Julie Swarstad Johnson.

 

 

 

the dust of a contact that is everywhere by Raymond de Borja

BUNNY | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 9781964499659

This hybrid work “moves between theoretical reflection and aesthetic practice through essays, fragments, daybook entries, and lyrical experiments.”

 

 

 

Parted Gods by Alfredo Félix-Díaz

Unsolicited Press | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-90-1

In this novel, twins “move through Berlin’s restless art world, the myth stained shores of Sicily, and a final reckoning in New Orleans where love, art, and fate collide.”

 

 

 

Out of the Sky by Matti Friedman

Spiegel & Grau | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 978-1954118980

This book tells “the harrowing true story of Hannah Senesh and a group of idealistic young Jews who parachuted behind enemy lines into Nazi-occupied Europe.”

 

 

 

Dispatch From Every Second Guess by Megan Gannon

Dzanc Books | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 9781938603761

Dispatch From Every Second Guess is “a verse-memoir spanning the breakdown of a marriage and the resulting wide-open horizon of single motherhood.”

 

 

 

The Amalgam by Maria Karametou

Vine Leaves Press | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-220-3

This novel set in Athens in 1984 is “the tale of two women bound by survival, exile, and the unbreakable pull of home.”

 

 

 

Writing Home by Anna Odessa Linzer

Empty Bowl Press | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 9798991740067

In this memoir, Linzer “slowly, and with a poet’s eye for detail, charts her journey to discover and reveal the essence of home.”

 

 

 

Amapiano Eyes by D. Nandi Odhiambo

Book*hug Press | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 9781771669702

According to Jonathan Garfinkel, Odhiambo “captures the generational dreams, traumas, aspirations, and despairs of diasporic Africa as it ripples across continents.”

 

 

 

Yellow by Amy Pence

Red Hen Press | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 9781636284767

According to Claire Stanford, Yellow “weaves a thick spell, moving from the Vietnam War to the Covid-19 pandemic, from a backyard in Louisiana to the vastness of outer space.”

 

 

 

Morning Leaves: Cultivating a Life of Beauty, Meaning and Joy by Laing F. Rikkers

Red Hen Press | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 9781636284729

This “fusion of poetry and nature-inspired art” is “a tender, soul-stirring meditation on grief, healing, and the quiet rediscovery of wonder, one morning at a time.”

 

 

 

Fragments of a Future Scroll: Hasidism for the Aquarian Age by Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

Ayin Press | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 9781961814325

This fiftieth-anniversary edition “presents an updated version of the original text, alongside essays by four contemporary Jewish thinkers—Rabbi Shaul Magid, Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Rabbi Jericho Vincent, and Arthur Kurzweil.”

 

 

 

Unbroken Circle, Unending Thread by James K. Zimmerman

Fernwood Press | March 24, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-217-0

According to Jared Harél, in these poems Zimmerman “finds inspiration in the cycle of seasons, birds, blossoms, even murderous black cats and trespassing deer.”

 

 

 

Posthumously Yours by Charles D. Braun

Type Eighteen Books | March 25, 2026
ISBN: 979-8998947766

“With acerbic wit and an intuitive, infectious, and disarmingly humorous voice,” Braun’s debut is a “novel by an anonymous author, a final missive, an explanation, an exploration of one man’s experience of the world.”

 

 

 

Everything Is Water by Chelsea Krieg

TRP: The University Press of SHSU | March 25, 2026
ISBN: 9781680034585

According to Leila Chatti, Krieg “charts the course of a woman’s life reshaped by motherhood and marriage in the aftermath of a husband’s cancer diagnosis” in these poems.

 

 

 

Song of the Yellow Asters by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

Translated from the German by Carlie Hoffman
World Poetry Books | March 25, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954218-44-4

These poems by Paul Celan’s cousin “explore love, nature, and the human spirit under occupation and amid the Holocaust.”

 

 

 

Through the Lens by Caridad Moro-Gronlier

TRP: The University Press of SHSU | March 25, 2026
ISBN: 9781680034608

In these poems, Moro-Gronlier “redefines ekphrasis for a visually saturated world, expanding her poetic gaze beyond the image to include the objects, spaces, texts, and moments that shape our cultural and personal landscapes.”

 

 

 

He Dances in His Wheelchair by Charles Becker

Finishing Line Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-405-9

According to James Crews, these poems “each unfold with their own natural rhythm, calling us back to our own embodied joy and celebration of every new moment, every new day.”

 

 

 

The Birds of Poverty Ridge by Brad Buchanan

Finishing Line Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-404-2

This poetry collection is “a searching meditation on the author’s return—after catastrophic illness—to a changed and changing life.”

 

 

 

Life Travels by Tina Harrach Denetclaw

Finishing Line Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-407-3

According to Francesca Bell, this chapbook “is strung with moments of bright reflection and tender celebration of nature, family, the memories we share with those we love, even of the ways the world hurts us.”

 

 

 

Paddling the Sweet Spot Between Life and Death by Laura E. Garrard

Finishing Line Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-381-6

According to Tess Gallagher, this chapbook’s poems are “courageous compass-settings for navigating a place of balance and bodily, emotional and spiritual contending.”

 

 

 

Keep Your Damn Seat by Caroline Kane Kenna

Finishing Line Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-406-6

According to Phillip Shabazz, the poems in this chapbook “challenge us to reckon with our place in the world before it’s too late.”

 

 

 

Wishbones by Elena Montes

Finishing Line Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-408-0

According to Mandy Khan, the poems in this chapbook “cut to the heart—honest in voice, sharply crafted, deeply vulnerable, and powerfully compelling.”

 

 

 

LOAD-BEARING WALLS by Linda B. Myers

Finishing Line Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-409-7

The poems in this chapbook “are a testimony to aging: her deteriorating body, friends suffering from dementia and cancer, and the ache of mourning those lost to her,” according to Alice Derry.

 

 

 

Manor of Buried Secrets by Mason O’Connor

Catalyst Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 978-1960803269

This YA novel is “a gripping journey of mystery, friendship, passion, and the search for buried treasure.”

 

 

 

Unknown & Other Stories by Barry Vitcov

Finishing Line Press | March 27, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-403-5

According to Edwin Battistella, this short fiction collection “offers enchantingly nuanced tales that will make you stop and think about the world, your life, and reality itself.”

 

 

 

Drawing Sculpture by Carroll Dunham

Soberscove Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-940190-36-5

The eighty drawings in this collection “offer intimate access to an artist’s process, tracing the emergence of a sculptural vocabulary as they explore spatial relationships, materials, and presentation for sculptures that don’t exist.”

 

 

 

Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology

Split/Lip Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-952897-49-8

This anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, “spans Xness history with essays representing nearly a decade of musical fandom.”

 

 

 

Event Horizon by Balsam Karam

Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel
The Feminist Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 9781558613546

Event Horizon is “an exquisite existential novel, dark as deep space, woven with reflection on oppression, solidarity, trauma, and loss.”

 

 

 

Cold Fire by David Mason

Red Hen Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 9781636284583

Mason’s poetry collection includes “poems of family life, aging, and a deep conversation with history and myth.”

 

 

 

We Exist in the Whisper: Huelga School Verses by Lupe Mendez

Arte Público Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-030-0

This hybrid collection of poetry and archival materials “explores Houston ISD’s racist plan to integrate schools by sending Mexican-American children—labeled as white—to predominantly African-American schools, thereby satisfying federal desegregation laws.”

 

 

 

Broken Chocolate by Rachel Miranda

Vine Leaves Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-218-0

According to Brian Morton, this novel “is both a suspenseful medical drama and a marvel of empathy and insight.”

 

 

 

Nowhere Near by Miko Revereza

Wendy’s Subway | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9909878-9-0

This debut memoir “follows the author’s psychogeographic journey from Los Angeles to Pangasinan to Mexico City after his departure from the United States, where he lived undocumented for twenty-six years.”

 

 

 

the light of your body by ire’ne lara silva

Arte Público Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-028-7

The short stories in this collection are “rooted in mythical realism, in liminal spaces that don’t differentiate the voices of the dead from those of the living, that navigate borders and borderless places fearlessly.”

 

 

 

The Road Back by Natalia Treviño

Arte Público Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-029-4

“Laying bare the disorienting blend of hope and exploitation many immigrant women experience,” this novel is “both a modern migration odyssey and a meditation on the cost of dreaming across borders.”

 

 

 

The Book of Destructions by Margarita Vélez Verbel, Corozal

Translated from the Spanish by María Del Castillo Sucerquia
Unsolicited Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-89-5

This poetry collection is “a necessary breaking, a blaze set to the myths that have ruled women’s bodies and lives for millennia.”

 

 

 

Diane Arbus Goes Shopping by Eve Wood

DoppelHouse Press | March 31, 2026
ISBN: 9781954600690

Diane Arbus Goes Shopping is “a four-part collection of poems and epistolary fiction … accompanied by darkly humorous drawings and paintings.”