Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in May 2025 from CLMP members.
My Love Is Water by Rob Macaisa Colgate
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-34-7
In this hybrid collection of drama and poetry “tracing the disintegration of a recent relationship,” the narrator “traverses a Chicago apartment filled with gay ghosts and broken Tagalog.”
The Installation of Fear by Jon Curley
Marsh Hawk Press | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798987617700
Curley’s poetry collection is a “relentless, furious autopsy of our contemporary social and political landscape.”
Lantana, or the indissoluble exhalation by bruno darío
Translated from the Spanish by Kit Schluter
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946604-16-3
Marking the first appearance of darío’s complete trilogy in a single volume, these poems center “on the relationship of a young man (the Inconsolable) and an older woman who unexpectedly takes her own life (Lantana/Anfitriona).”
From the Founding of the Country by Cristina Pérez Díaz
Winter Editions | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-13-1
This debut poetry collection “tells a fragmentary narrative of two lovers—one languid and liquid, the other sharp as exclamation points—who are also two nations bound in a horrendous love.”
If This Were a Movie. . . by Almir Imširević
Translated from the Bosnian by Ellen Elias-Bursać
Laertes | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-942281-37-5
According to Dino Mustafić, this work of drama “depicts the author’s almost autobiographical relationship with the phenomenon of the siege.”
Translated from the Korean by Jein Han
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604354
According to Paige Aniyah Morris, the world of this collection “is indeed a haunted one, at turns dreamlike and nightmarish as each poem weighs the risks and rewards of being (not quite) human, of having a body (of sorts).”
Ghost in the Archive by Jennifer Loyd
Conduit Books & Ephemera | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9883272-4-0
According to Chet’la Sebree, this poetry collection is “a beautiful exploration of past and possibility through the life of Rachel Carson and a contemporary speaker who seeks her own truths.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946433954
The poems in footprints are “a space for accounts of worlds that have existed, for the rawness of the worlds we live in, and for worlds we can write into existence.”
Escape from the Fat Farm: Poetry and Prose by Sandy McIntosh
Marsh Hawk Press | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798987617779
According to Burt Kimmelman, McIntosh’s poems “sketch primal scenes in which one or another ‘harmless impersonator’ steps forth from a menagerie of unreliable narrators.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604361
In this poetry collection, Nissan “has made an almost shockingly compelling book out of a formal constraint as sharp and absurd as the limitations of living in these trivial, awful, genocidal, yearning times,” according to Hannah Black.
Other Side of Ocean by Xiaoqiu Qiu
Marsh Hawk Press | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9798987617755
According to John Keene, Qiu “maps out a series of transnational and translingual geographical and psychic voyages that touch upon the cosmic” in this poetry collection.
Exercises 1950–1960 by Yannis Ritsos
Translated from the Greek by Spring Ulmer
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604422
According to Christopher Merrill, “what Yannis Ritsos wrote in the aftermath of his detention and torture during the Greek Civil War is exactly what we need to navigate our own fraught moment in history.”
Don’t Hide the Madness by Nhã Thuyên
Translated from the Vietnamese by Kaitlin Rees
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604279
This poetry collection “takes seriously the question of how to keep speaking, how to endure in language when it has been and continues to be drained of meaning.”
The Hand of the Hand by Laura Vazquez
Translated from the French by Limited Connection Collective: Shira Abramovich & Lénaïg Cariou
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781946604453
The poetry in The Hand of the Hand “brings us to a future or an alternate universe in which earth, animal, and human intertwine—where stomachs have meadows, milk pours itself over trees, and flies wash the dead.”
The Fun Times Brigade by Lindsay Zier-Vogel
Book*hug Press | May 1, 2025
ISBN: 9781771669412
Zier-Vogel’s novel “examines the enduring challenges of reconciling being an artist with being a mother.”
After Pearl by Stephen G. Eoannou
Santa Fe Writers Project | May 2, 2025
ISBN: 9781951631475
According to Bruce Robert Coffin, After Pearl is “a wonderfully rendered hard-boiled historical mystery reminiscent of Chandler’s Marlowe novels.”
Diary of a Proletarian Seamstress by Victoria Guerrero-Peirano
Translated from the Spanish by Anastatia Spicer and Honora Spicer
Cardboard House Press | May 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-945720-36-9
In this bilingual “book of threads,” contemporary Peruvian poet Guerrero-Peirano “pierces intergenerational silences with erupting screams.”
Crevice: A Life Between Worlds by Anna Redsand
Choeofpleirn Press | May 2, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9911790-8-9
In these thirteen essays, Redsand writes “that wherever she is in the world, she will always be living on the edge of Dinétah, in a place she calls ‘Home Not Home.'”
American Playground by Michael Isaac Shokrian
the Thieving Magpie | May 2, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9925417-0-0
In this novel, “7-year-old Mishel Manoucherian’s family has packed up their life in Tehran and moved to Los Angeles, launching him headfirst into a disorienting new world of social and schoolyard expectations.”
Treasures in Heaven by Kathleen Alcalá
Raven Chronicles Press | May 5, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-7354780-6-7
Set in nineteenth-century Mexico, in this novel the protagonist, Estela, “finds herself swept into a world of politics and entangled in secret relationships.”
Wickerwork by Christian Lehnert
Translated from the German by Richard Sieburth
Archipelago Books | May 5, 2025
ISBN: 9781962770248
This bilingual poetry collection “traffics in details that might have otherwise gone unnoticed: the far sides of fishes, red jellyfish fraying on a tide, the way a hazel tree learns from the falling of snow how to scatter her pollen.”
Intercede: Saints for Concerning Occasions by Jennifer Clark
Unsolicited Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-39-0
Clark’s fourth poetry collection “presents saints as surprisingly relatable figures—imperfect, flawed, and very much like us.”
Wave Books | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9798891060142
Fishman’s poetry collection is “a one-woman quest narrative in a kayak, written during the author’s ‘journey-in-place’ in Northeastern Ontario over a period of fourteen days in quarantine.”
Where I Went Wrong by David Galef
Regal House Publishing | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9781646035861
Galef’s novel is “a wistful, engaging, and ingeniously told story of a man who must figure out just when and where his life began to fly off the rails,” according to Gary Krist.
Come Round Right by Alan Govenar
Deep Vellum | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9781646053742
This novel is “a paean to a pivotal moment in American history—when the Vietnam War was raging, and the idealism of the 1960s was losing ground to frustration, anger, and violence.”
Spring in Cranberry Harbor by Candace Hammond
Sea Crow Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9781961864269
In the second book of the cozy fiction Cranberry Harbor Series, “Lizzie Martin has returned to Cape Cod and is co-running the Cranberry Harbor Gazette with her dad, Peter.”
Like Zeros, Like Pearls by Lola Haskins
Charlotte Lit Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960558-10-7
Readers “will find a wide range of insects, bees to beetles, mantises to ants, ladybugs to cicadas and fireflies to butterflies” in Haskins’s poetry collection.
Felony Juggler by Penn Jillette
Akashic Books | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9781636142388
According to Elizabeth McCracken, this novel is about juggling: “not just literal juggling—though it is the great American juggling novel—but on every metaphoric level too: moral, sexual, biographical, linguistic.”
The Boat Not Taken by Joanna Choi Kalbus
WTAW Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9877197-9-4
This “lyrical, often humorous” memoir is “a love letter to an extraordinary woman: an independent widow fiercely devoted yet destructively deceptive to her child.”
The re in refuge by Adrianne Kalfopoulou
Red Hen Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282763
The linked essays in this collection “investigate ideas of refuge, broadly defined, from the intimacies of romance to the promises of the nation-state.”
Promises: Truth and Lies in London and Kampala by Goretti Kyomuhendo
Catalyst Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960803-22-1
Kyomuhendo’s novel “exposes the shadow world of illegal immigrants, and the creativity with which people in the legal margins rise to meet an inhumane system.”
Graywolf Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-339-1
Moore’s poems are “a collection of thoughtful meditations on hope at a moment when hope seems far-fetched.”
World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After by Martha Park
Hub City Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9798885740487
This book of illustrated essays “circles the connections between climate change and faith in the fear and fascination of the end of the world.”
Winter Editions | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-12-4
Riggs’s eighth poetry collection “pulls from the momentum of Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Bernadette Mayer’s Memory to create a survival manual for a Trump presidency and a family crisis.”
The Lost Nostalgias by Esteban Rodríguez
CavanKerry Press | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-960327-11-6
According to Felicia Zamora, the narrator of these poems “seeks refuge in undoing youthful lamentations of wielding English as a weapon to reclaim his diasporic lineage and believe his father’s words.”
Duet for One by Martha Anne Toll
Regal House Publishing | May 6, 2025
ISBN: 9781646036004
Toll’s novel “weaves a poignant narrative of loss, connection, and the enduring hope that love can be found where life resides.”
The Mirror of Simple Souls by Leah Flax Barber
Winter Editions | May 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-959708-14-8
In her debut poetry collection, Flax Barber “revives an actress figure of the commedia dell’arte to consider her own destiny as a soon-to-be historical subject.”
Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Harbor Editions | May 8, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957248-50-9
In this “small collection of small essays,” Montgomery “examines how the injustice and violence of girlhood leads women to accept—and even claim—small spaces and stories.”
cells, fully differentiated by Kinsey Cantrell
Noemi Press | May 9, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-955992-59-6
This poetry collection is “an account of non-diagnosis, an experiment in mining memory and parsing trauma in an ultimately failed attempt to construct narrative.”
Translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Black Square Editions | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 9798986037028
According to Charlotte Mandell, Huynh’s poems “explore the intimacy of language: the book begins with the narrator having lost her voice, her language, as well as her connection to her own body.”
Where do you live? by Hanaa Ahmad Jabr and Jennifer Jean
Translated from the Arabic by Tamara Al-Attiya and Wadaq Qais
Arrowsmith Press | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904050-7-3
In this poetry collection, Jabr and Jean “speak to each other, and us, about the stories that nurture, and the damage caused by the fantasts of power.”
A Precise Chaos by Jo-Ann Mort
Arrowsmith Press | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9904050-5-9
Mort’s poems “reflect her experiences as a trade union activist, a political organizer, and a peace activist in the Middle East.”
Coming Ashore by Thomas O’Grady
Arrowsmith Press | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9915254-9-7
O’Grady’s poetry collection “continues his exploration of place, memory, and the transient and transcendent wonder of the everyday.”
Tracing Bodies by Virginia Watts
Old Scratch Press | May 10, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-957224-59-6
These poems “pulse with the ghosts of the past—childhood shadows, family echoes, and the quiet, enduring presence of the natural world.”
Midnight Is Not in Everyone’s Reach by António Lobo Antunes
Translated from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Lowe
Dalkey Archive | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781628976120
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.”
The Miniaturist’s Assistant by Katherine Scott Crawford
Regal House Publishing | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781646035922
Crawford’s historical novel “explores the mystery of time, how our choices ripple throughout history, and what it means to be a fully-realized woman—in any century.”
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje
Translated from the Dutch by David McKay
New Vessel Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781954404328
Daanje’s historical novel “immerses us in the psyche of a war-traumatized man who has lost his identity.”
Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man by Jose Hernandez Diaz
Red Hen Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282404
This poetry collection “seeks to celebrate the Mexican American experience while also exploring how surrealism and absurdism can lead to wondrous discoveries about the self, community, and the imagination.”
How To Tie & Untie Mist by Daniel Hales
Frayed Edge Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781642510638
The third section of this collection “deconstructs selected poems in the previous two sections through partial erasures: new skeletal poems emerge from the mist to contradict the original poems—or to untie their knots, revealing their essence.”
Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community by Maggie Helwig
Coach House Books | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781552455043
Helwig’s prose “confronts our society’s callousness in allowing so many to go unhoused and demands, by bringing their stories to the fore, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace.”
The Gospel According to Danny by David Hicks
Vine Leaves Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-147-3
Hicks’s novel is “a deeply human story about love, fatherhood, and the cost of a divided nation.”
[gamerover] by Giancarlo Huapaya
Translated from the Spanish by Ryan Greene
Phoneme | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781646053759
Huapaya’s collection charts “the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents’ bodies and complicated habits.”
Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger
Two Lines Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781949641783
According to Yasmine El Rashidi, this novel is “a partly real, partly fantastical depiction of post-revolutionary Cairo and Alexandria as seen through the stories of a struggling journalist.”
Under the Tented Skin by C. Kubasta
Unsolicited Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-79-6
Kubasta’s poems “explore the experiences of women and girls through folkloric history, discursive memory, and spectacle.”
The Glass Garden by Jessica Lévai
Lanternfish Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781941360873
In this science fiction novella, “Dr. Therese Blake is a homebody archaeologist devoted to the history of planet Earth. But when her sister Lissy makes a stunning discovery near an abandoned colony on a distant exoplanet, the sisters team up to discover its secrets.”
Mothersalt by Mia Ayumi Malhotra
Alice James Books | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 9781949944723
According to Jenny Xie, this poetry collection reveals “to us how maternal caretaking is a locus of astonishing collisions: between profound intimacies and estrangements, mergings and fracturings, awakenings and bewilderments, violences, and heady joys.”
Wave Books | May 13, 2025
ISNB: 9798891060159
Composed from “daily writing practices and years of looping reductions and arrangements,” Meier’s collection of poem-essays “asks what it means to be in company.”
Only Smoke by Juan José Millás
Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead and Daniel Hahn
Bellevue Literary Press | May 13, 2025
ISBN: 978-1954276444
In this novel, narrator Carlos embarks “on a journey that will bring him closer to his father and teach him how to navigate the invisible borders between reality and fantasy, sanity and madness.”
It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays by Tom McAllister
Rose Metal Press | May 14, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-941628-35-5
In this collection, McAllister “challenges himself to write a short essay for every year he’s been alive.”
Soul Friend and Other Love Notes to the Natural World by Sheila McEntee
Blackwater Press | May 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963614-09-1
McEntee explores “the flora and fauna in Appalachian forests, on the shores of the Potomac River, and, especially, in her own backyard” in these twelve personal essays spanning 20 years.
The Vitals by Marie de Quatrebarbes
Translated from the French by Aiden Farrell
World Poetry | May 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-32-1
In “elliptical prose vignettes,” this collection asks “questions about family, survival, and of the shared experience of grief and longing.”
In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse by Mary Mackey
Marsh Hawk Press | May 15, 2025
ISBN: 9798987617762
Mackey “unflinchingly imagines the future we will face as the Earth’s climate changes” in her poetry collection.
Defiant Acts by James Stewart III
Acre Books | May 15, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-946724-89-2
Stewart’s novel “documents the life of a working-class interracial couple and their children in a Chicago suburb in the early 1990s.”
The Men Who Killed My Mother by Fernando Valverde
Translated from the Spanish by Gordon E. McNeer
Swan Isle Press | May 15, 2025
ISBN: 9781961056091
In this bilingual poetry collection, Valverde “leads us into a forest full of wolves and serpents under the governance of civil society.”
The Sky Will Overtake You by Marcia Falk
Scarlet Tanager | May 19, 2025
ISBN: 9781734531381
According to Jehanne Dubrow, this poetry collection examines “the lyrical responsibilities of the poet: to create meaning and beauty, to grieve what’s lost, and to express gratitude for every fragile, tenuous moment of being human.”
Things a Bright Boy Can Do by Michael Chang
Coach House Books | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781552454978
In this collection, “the titans of pop culture and poetry wrestle at Chang’s whimsy, their poems a series of flings and retorts at the end of a late-night spree.”
Vine Leaves Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-149-7
Clare’s novel is “a story about coming-of-age and coming to the truth—a tale of love, betrayal, and the dangerous risks we take to find where we truly belong.”
Translated from the French by Pablo Strauss
Coach House Books | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781552454992
This work of environmental speculative fiction is “a terrifying tale about the ways in which we try to dominate nature, and how nature will, inevitably, wreak retribution upon us.”
I Am Looking for You in the No-Place Grid by Adam Haiun
Coach House Books | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781552454961
According to Adam Dickinson, Haiun’s book-length poem “ingeniously enacts a nonhuman consciousness trapped in our networks.”
Crocodiles at Night by Gisela Heffes
Translated from the Spanish by Grady C. Wray
Deep Vellum | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781646053766
Heffes’s novel explores “familial ties, memories and images of places that are no longer the same.”
Measure of Devotion by Nell Joslin
Regal House Publishing | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781646036127
According to Elaine Neil Orr, Joslin’s historical novel “chronicles a woman’s excruciating journey to save her son during the Battles for Chattanooga and her desperate efforts to retain some remnant of home in a country strewn with war.”
That’s All I Know by Elisa Levi
Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Graywolf Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-64445-337-7
In Levi’s novel, “when a stranger loses his dog on the first day after the end of the world, Little Lea warns him not to follow it into the forest.”
Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost by Donald Niedekker
Translated from the Dutch by Jonathan Reeder
Sandorf Passage | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9789533515335
Told from the point of view of a nameless Dutch crew member who died in 1597, this novel “argues that the unchanging characteristics of human behavior are unquestionably why the natural world has changed in so many ways.”
Theory of the Voice and Dream by Liliana Ponce
Translated from the Spanish by Michael Martin Shea
World Poetry | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-33-8
According to Michelle Gil-Montero, this collection bringing together some of Ponce’s serial poems is “a poetics of the beginning—not as an origin, but as an endless thrust of becoming and undoing.”
Story Line Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282992
Uschuk’s poetry collection is “a masterful exploration of resilience, love, and the echoes of history, set against the stark beauty of nature and the sharp edges of human conflict.”
Beneath The Moon and Long Dead Stars by Daniel Wallace
Bull City Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-949344-56-1
In Wallace’s flash fictions, “lives are altered in what appear to be minor moments: an unlatched lock, an old photo, a light left on too long.”
Radiant Wound by Cara Waterfall
Unsolicited Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-963115-77-2
Waterfall’s poetry collection is “both an anthem and a lament, a poetic exploration of life between cultures, languages, and the landscapes of Côte d’Ivoire.”
Black Lawrence Press | May 20, 2025
ISBN: 9781625571595
In this book, Westhale’s poetry “applies a formal approach to what is truly unfathomable to consider: speculation of the world’s end, and the spectrum of possible conquests to follow.”
Translated from the Italian by Danielle Pieratti
World Poetry | May 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-954218-30-7
Borio’s first English-language poetry collection “confronts the interpersonal crises of contemporary lives caught between two worlds—one ancient and abiding, the other rapid, digital, and increasingly diverse.”
Wizard’s Tower Press | May 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-913892-96-8
The first installment of Wiz Duos features two science fiction and fantasy novellas: The God Road by David Gullen and To Sail the Interstice by Ben Wright.
Wizard’s Tower Press | May 22, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-913892-98-2
The second installment of Wiz Duos features the novellas Song, Stone, Scale, Bone by Juliet Kemp and Take Me Home by E. M. Faulds.
Everything Is by Miguel Eichelberger
Poetose | May 25, 2025
ISBN: 978-1646723614
Eichelberger’s poetry chapbook “pulls indirectly from biology, anthropology, psychology, and experience on the topic of grief and death.”
Cursive Paradise by Kaur Alia Ahmed
Wendy’s Subway | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9909878-2-1
In this poetry collection, Ahmed “offers a view of subjectivity and gender made resonant and malleable, insisting on language that is lush with what cannot be contained by the voice or the page.”
Capital Queer: A Pride Celebration from Washington Writers’ Publishing House
Washington Writers’ Publishing House | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781941551516
This anthology “honoring the LGBTQ+ experience” features poetry, fiction, and nonfiction by Suzanne Feldman, Emily Holland, Kim Roberts, and more writers from Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC.
A Brief History of the Midwest by Andrew Grace
Black Lawrence Press | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781625571588
Grace’s poems “trace the trajectory of the middle of America from its colonization to the present day.”
The Cloud Intern by David Greenwood
Under the BQE | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9911220-0-9
This speculative novel explores the “collective loneliness of a society in which the deepest human connection has become a commodity, and deepest human weirdness may be our best hope.”
The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba
Translated from the Japanese by Avery Fischer Udagawa
Yonder | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781632063922
In this middle-grade novel that inspired Spirited Away when it was first published in Japan fifty years ago, a gust of wind “leads Lina down a secret path between the trees to a strange and incredible world.”
Body: My Life in Parts by Nina B. Lichtenstein
Vine Leaves Press | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98832-151-0
In the stand-alone but interconnected chapters of this memoir, “body parts serve as portals toward remembrances grounded in the physical body while linking to other forms of experience.”
The Patient Body by Sebastian Matthews
Red Hen Press | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781636282442
Matthews’ mosaic of short prose pieces “chronicles one man’s journey as he attempts to lead a balanced life as father, husband, friend, and literary citizen during traumatic times.”
Slant Books | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781639821969
The poems in Vanishments ask, “How is knowledge made manifest? How do our senses clarify our knowing? In what way do our senses distort this thing we call the real?”
The Bayrose Files by Diane Wald
Regal House Publishing | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781646035953
In Wald’s novella, “what starts as a simple story of deception unspools into a tale of grief, love, and complicated regret,” according to Miriam Gershow.
Apostle of Desire by Bruce Weigl
BOA Editions | May 27, 2025
ISBN: 9781960145437
Weigl’s poems “juxtapose the peace and comfort offered by the natural world with the bruising intensity of manmade violence.”
Wendy’s Subway | May 30, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-9909878-6-9
Edited by Shoghig Halajian and Suzy Halajian, this multi-genre anthology “explores artists’ engagement with sites of physical dispossession and socio-ecological crisis.”
The Figure Outward by Jean Daive
Translated from the French by Kevin Holden
Black Square Editions | May 30, 2025
ISBN: 9798986037004
Daive’s book-length poem “is ‘set’ in Mesoamerica, where it encounters conflicts and harmonies between sustenance, desire, and ritual, the origins of writing, the origins of money, and the ecosystems of both animal and cultural worlds.”
Gecko Girl / Lagartijita by Daniel Chacón
Translated from the Spanish by Alaíde Ventura Medina
Piñata Books | May 31, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89375-014-0
This bilingual picture book for ages four to eight “follows a young girl who wakes up to an unfamiliar face in the mirror.”
¿Qué es un poema? / What Is a Poem? by Jovi de la Jara
Piñata Books | May 31, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89375-016-4
de la Jara’s bilingual children’s book “describes the endless possibilities available in writing poetry; words can rhyme, run off the page or even be invented!”
In the Company of Wolves by Antonio Farías
Piñata Books | May 31, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89375-011-9
In this young adult novel, “a boy on the cusp of manhood observes the importance of family, respect for the natural world and the impact of war as he considers who he will become.”
The Closest Thing to a Normal Life by Michael Méndez Guevara
Arte Público Press | May 31, 2025
ISBN: 979-8-89375-013-3
According to Matt Mendez, this book “navigates the complexities of grief and shows how our deepest relationships ultimately shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.”
Cascarones: An Easter Surprise / Cascarones: Una sorpresa de Pascuas by Alicia Salazar
Translated from the Spanish by Alaíde Ventura Medina
Piñata Books | May 31, 2025
ISBN: 9798893750157
In this picture book, “a young girl named Victoria eagerly anticipates Easter and the confetti-filled eggs, or cascarones, she and her parents make for the holiday.”
dreamscapes I — betrayals (101 & 202 nights) by Sara Whym
Contra Mundum Press | May 31, 2025
ISBN: 9781940625737
Combining fiction, poetry, and theater, Whym’s trilogy begins when Maia “suddenly beholds the vision of Ondine, a child she had desired yet reluctantly aborted 23 years earlier.”
