Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books forthcoming in May 2026 from CLMP members.
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946604-59-0
“Imagined as a series of experiments in autobiography,” this cross-genre collection “invokes the name of the author’s grandfather to write toward the mystery of family, originals, and their ruptures, breaks, and re-imaginings.”
SCREAM until you know what God is by Liz Bajjalieh
Fernwood Press | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-223-1
According to Eliza Marley, Bajjalieh’s poems “encapsulate a shifting and ever-changing view of God that divines the brilliances of everyday matters as their own complete entities.”
The Enchanted Desna by Oleksander Dovzhenko
Translated from the Ukrainian by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella
Lost Horse Press | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-5-8
Published posthumously, this memoir “unfolds the filmmaker’s childhood along the Desna River, where memory, myth, and nature coalesce in scenes of quiet wonder.”
Sunworshippers by Paul Ebenkamp
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946604-50-7
“The outcome of a series of extended techniques developed over a decade of psychic repair,” Ebenkamp’s poetry collection is a “work of mid-life summation done by someone who knows darn well they were just born.”
Eclipse Season by Karin Gottshall
Conduit Books & Ephemera | May 1, 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.”
Winter Night Rabbit Worries by Yoo Heekyung
Translated from the Korean by Stine An
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946604-53-8
In this collection of prose poems, readers “will encounter a dizzying yet tender experience in which the boundaries between self and other unravel, and new stories begin to take shape.”
Tupelo Press | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961209-55-8
“By turns meditative and probing,” James’s poetry collection “combines fixed poetic forms with long-form meditative lyrics to explore questions of agency in the Anthropocene.”
Queen Saturday by Borys Khersonsky
Translated from the Ukrainian by Svetlana Lavochkina and Oksana Rosenblum
Lost Horse Press | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9890965-6-5
In these poems, a “lyrical speaker moves through Odesa’s courtyards, Transcarpathian towns, and the scarred mountains of Crimea, closing the distance between vanished streets and imagined afterlives of countless Jewish kin.”
New Names For Stars by Len Lawson
Lit Fox Books | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 9798992232998
Lawson’s poetry collection is a “journey and a companion for that journey, exploring Afrofuturism, superheroes, mental health, social justice, and beyond.”
The Dog’s Letter by Timothy Ashley Leo
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2026
“In pursuit of an affective origin of the word canicular,” the poems in this chapbook “trace the dimensions of a yellow zone between hospital walls and the exhaustion of the first person.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946604-43-9
These letters between Burton and Costa—edited by David J. Getsy and Patrick Greaney—”show a vibrant transnational queer artistic friendship and offer a new perspective on the struggle to establish conceptual, critical artistic practices in the Americas.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946604-52-1
This play “threads fantasy together with Connor’s past and present, creating a thriller in which there are Fake Dads and real daddies, surgery and blood play, childhood scarring and adulthood dissociation.”
Auditioning the Routine by Daniel Morris
Marsh Hawk Press | May 1, 2026
ISBN:979-8990249066
According to Mairead Byrne, this poetry collection is “well-titled: canny, meta, ludic, with Morris both performer (of many routines) and watcher in the wings.”
The Book of Advice by Ghazal Mosadeq
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1,2026
ISBN: 978-1-946604-40-8
This collection of poems, self-translated by Mosadeq, “stems from the andarznameh tradition of classical Persian literature, a form that moves between verse and prose as it engages invented or familiar sayings and folktales.”
Translated from the Galician by Laura Cesarco Eglin
Ugly Duckling Presse | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946604-44-6
In this poetry collection, “Reyes’ frustrations using her maternal grandfather’s native tongue become confrontations with the insufficiency of language itself, as a means to contain experience, meaning, and the self.”
Books as Drinking Buddies: A Book of Re-readings by Gary Soto
Limberlost Press | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-2954-8346-2
In this book of humor essays, Soto “re-reads books by Charles Darwin, Claire Tomalin, Pablo Neruda, Oscar Hijuelos,” and more, and “has literary opinions that might extend beyond his own local 94708 zip code.”
SET THE BONE by Jillian Stacia
Arcana Poetry Press | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968451-07-3
“Confronting the forces that shape women from the inside out,” this debut poetry collection “reckons with family, mental health, feminism, and the cost of surviving in a world determined to keep women contained.”
Marsh Hawk Press | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8990249059
Stein’s poetry collection “spans vast stretches of time and space with precise, elegant language and quick, playful intelligence, reveling in the uncertainty of knowing where we are and where we’re headed.”
Alice James Books | May 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949944-78-5
According to Library Journal, the poems in this collection “connect readers to their surroundings in new and surprising ways, reintroducing things and investing them with a prescient awareness and intelligence.”
This Elegance by Derrick Austin
Boa Editions | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960145-94-9
This poetry collection “engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione (‘sacred conversation’), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space.”
A Fight for Justice: The Compelling Story of Temporary Foreign Workers & Human Rights by Joe Barrett
Ronsdale Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-55380-739-1
This book tells the “inspiring story of collective action and relationships across progressive communities in Canada and Latin America and offers a remarkable story of migrant workers successfully fighting for fairness and equality.”
Hub City Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 9798885740685
Set in 1980s Kentucky, this debut novel is “told from inside a treatment home for troubled teenagers, where lost boys become more than their pasts and dare to imagine different futures.”
The Minister by Stefan Bošković
Translated from the Montenegrin by Will Firth
Sandorf Passage | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 9789533515908
This novel “reveals the ugly truths about how the promises of democratic change empower corrupt politicians and organized crime syndicates, fan the flames of nationalism, and eradicate the middle class.”
An Absent Life: Elizabeth, the “mad” Duchess of Albemarle, 1654–1734 by Paul Boucher
Blackwater Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963614-11-4
This biography tells the story of Elizabeth Cavendish, “from the extravagance of the Restoration court to the rigid respectability of Georgian England, an era when women were sidelined, childlessness scorned, and mental illness mocked.”
Tears Are Everywhere by Kira Lynn Cain
Buckman | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-967058-07-5
This art book “offers the concision of a children’s book, the visual and tactile pleasures of a monograph, and the interpretative contemplation of abstract art, all in one hardcover volume.”
No Heroic Measures by Jessica Danger
Santa Fe Writers Project | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-951631-59-8
In this memoir, Danger’s “life is shattered when she receives a phone call informing her that her long estranged father—the man who once tried to kill her—is now dying of liver failure.”
(Out) on the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel by Lindsey Danis
Ig Publishing | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63246-182-7
“Weaving personal experience with data and interviews,” Danis’s book “empowers LGBTQ+ travelers to face their fears, expand their comfort zones, find community, and thrive on the road.”
Seventy-Two Seasons: A Memoir about Noticing by M. A. C. Farrant
Ronsdale Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-55380-743-8
“Inspired by the Japanese practice of celebrating one feature in nature every five days, creating seventy-two seasons instead of four,” Farrant “embarks on a yearlong mission to focus her attention on the small spellbinding changes around her” in this memoir.
Theory for Moving Houses by Renee Gladman
Wave Books | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 9798891060425
In this multi-genre collection, Gladman’s “inquiry into her intersecting practices of writing and drawing reveals a deep commitment to uncertainty and ‘fictional knowing.'”
The Wallet and Other Thefts by Kristen Gleason
Fonograf Editions | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964499-67-3
“Concerned with theft, shame, exile, tourism, masochism, God, and ‘Nature,'” the short stories in this collection “are lightly linked—objects, diseases, and landscapes reappear.”
The Afterlife of a Threadbare Jester by Khanh Ha
Red Hen Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63628-467-5
“Centering on a Vietnamese intelligence officer’s years-long ordeal in communist reeducation camps,” this novel is “heartrending and an illuminating look at the Vietnam War and its aftermath.”
Without Your Father by Jessica Lynne Henkle
Unsolicited Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-70-3
This book of memoir vignettes “depicts the oddities and absurdities of navigating sudden loss, along with the utter devastation of it: the daily, sometimes hourly trudging forward in a life that has become unrecognizable now that one person is no longer in it.”
Fernwood Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-219-4
Lately’s debut collection “poetically and thematically follows the ingredients of soap making—ash, water, and oil—to explore how one might wash their hands of a messy and traumatic past.”
Partly Strong, Partly Broken by Nathaniel Popkin
New Door Books | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-7355585-9-2
In this novel, “a progressive rabbi tries desperately to hold her interfaith community together amid increasing clashes over politics, racism, and Israel.”
CavanKerry Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960327-20-8
“Painting a vivid and fraught portrait of the North Bronx,” this poetry collection “unflinchingly highlights and confronts the contradictions at the heart of love, divorce, gender, religion, and community.”
Now I’m Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself by Jill Rosenberg
Black Lawrence Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-62557-217-2
The characters in these ten stories “feel alienated: from their communities and relationships, on the streets of wealthy suburbs, at the doctor’s office, in classrooms and swimming pools, in their own homes and their own skin.”
A Current Through the Flesh by Richard-Yves Sitoski
Ronsdale Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-55380-736-0
This poetry collection “traces traumas back four generations and across families to reveal the flimsiness of male self-images, the perils of silence and the latent power of women oppressed by toxic beliefs.”
Nightboat Books | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64362-307-8
In these poems, smith “charts medical transition, a budding Islamic practice, and civic resistance, felt in the book’s themes of meaning-making, hope, love, lust, identity, and community.”
Sawadika American Girl by Daria Sommers
Vine Leaves Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-212-8
According to John Fried, this novel “offers an unexpected take on the US presence in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of Piper, an American diplomat’s daughter.”
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
Spiegel & Grau | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954118-81-2
According to Publishers Weekly, this novel “traces the intersecting lives of an exasperated older sister, a precocious orphan, and an enterprising woman in 1933 Mississippi.”
The Ghost-Star King by Adam Tavel
The Word Works | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-944585-98-3
According to Hadara Bar-Nadav, this collection of poems is “part apocalyptical landscape, part fantastical romp through classrooms and the ruined empires of capitalism.”
The Future Tense of Joy by Jessica Teich
DoppelHouse Press | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954600-90-4
Teich’s memoir is “an intertwining story of two women grappling with their demons; one is the narrator, a mother and survivor of sexual assault in her youth, and the other, a young woman in a magazine, familiar but a stranger.”
Translated from the Spanish by Francisco Cantú
Restless Books | May 5, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63206-411-0
In this collection of essays about soccer, Villoro explores “the elements that make it the world’s favorite pastime, from its ancient origins, mythic players, exhilarating matches, endemic rivalries, and the unlikely moments in which football has changed history.”
Spotlight on the Word by Astrid Cabral
Translated from the Portuguese by Alexis Levitin
World Poetry Books | May 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954218-48-2
Cabral’s poetry collection is a “far-ranging contemplation of the poet’s endless endeavor to create meaning with the fragile and somehow inadequate material of her craft.”
The Post Office: An Opera in Poems by Elaine Sexton
Grid Books | May 6, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-946830-43-2
In this libretto of poems, “a blistering conflict erupts between co-workers about gay marriage, free speech, the country’s racial and class divide, and democracy itself.”
Prom Queens: Celebrating Prom Poems & Stories by Queens Writers
Poets of Queens | May 8, 2026
ISBN: 9798990473348
This multi-genre anthology edited by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons, Pichchenda Bao, and Tim Lindner aims to help people “celebrate each other’s prom stories instead of feeling pressured to live up to what pop culture has taught us prom is supposed to look like.”
Unsolicited Press | May 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-43-7
“Moving through girlhood, the body, labor, relationships, and motherhood,” this hybrid collection “dismantles the idea that identity is self-determined, revealing instead how it is shaped through expectation, silence, and survival.”
Convergence: Poetry on Environmental Impacts of War
Scarlet Tanager Books | May 11, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-7345313-9-8
Edited by Anne Coray, J. C. Todd, and Teresa Mei Chuc, this poetry anthology “offers a groundbreaking and vital perspective on war’s destruction of the natural world—the creatures, plants, soil, water, and atmosphere of Earth.”
Flood Editions | May 11, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9918894-1-4
Wright “navigates the landscapes of memory, history, and philosophy” in this collection of poems that “challenge through their density and reward with their inherent music.”
form a more perfect by Marina Blitshteyn
The Word Works | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-944585-91-4
According to Richard Hoffman, “the linguistically alert poems” in Blitshteyn’s collection “conjure a vision of our common life that is emancipatory, clear, fresh, and exciting.”
The Stained Glass Mustang by Tim Bryant
Unsolicited Press | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-72-7
In this novel, an adman “must navigate temptation, truth, and his own battered conscience to discover whether salvation is something he can sell—or something he has to earn.”
What’s Possible by Robert Cording
Slant Books | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63982-223-2
According to Betsy Sholl, in these poems Cording is “shattered by grief for his dead son, until he comes to a profound sense of what remains, as the world and the otherworldly gesture toward each other.”
The Immortal Journeys of Isabelle Eberhardt by Hédi A. Jaouad
Three Rooms Press | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-953103-72-7
In this biography, “the legendary fin-de-siècle adventuress Isabelle Eberhardt emerges as a radically modern figure who lived on her own terms—crossing boundaries of gender, faith, empire, and identity.”
They Marched Under the Sun by Cris Judar
Translated from the Portuguese by Lara Norgaard
Fonograf Editions | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964499-63-5
This novel is about “violence, religious persecution, the loss of freedom and rights, as well as a statement on our need for ritual, dreams, and the resignification of bodies and social roles.”
The Lifeguard by Laura Kasischke
Red Hen Press | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63628-287-9
According to Kristen Roupenian, this novel “offers a dizzying, God’s-eye view of a human-sized tragedy.”
Chitra Demands to Go Home by Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay
Modern Artist Press | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964403-06-9
This debut novel “explores mother-son relationships, cross-cultural conversations, and the tribulations of getting older as Chitra plots her triumphant return to her home in Kolkata.”
Entomology of the Pin-Up Girl by Lauren Osborn
Dzanc Books | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-938603-70-9
This short story collection “delivers a terrific play on the ‘monstrous feminine’—captivating stories of women shedding their skins and exoskeletons and blurring the boundaries between predator and prey.”
Amethyst Editions | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-55861-389-8
Stoehr’s debut collection of short stories “investigates the inner lives, evolving relationships, and often violent marginalization of a community of trans women in a large Midwestern town.”
Vine Leaves Press | May 12, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-210-4
Swift’s memoir “illuminates the complex challenges families face when confronted with addiction, mental illness, and incarceration.”
Material by Ana Maria Caballero
Trio House Press | May 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-949487-73-2
In this poetry collection, “the unapologetic female speaker explores different ways strength manifests in the roles of artist, wife, daughter, and mother—and how recorded and parsed observation can be a form of both protest and care.”
Translated from the Chinese by Alison M. Friedman
Poetose | May 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64672-404-8
This collection features “a beautiful bilingual sequence of lyrical prose poems addressed to a distant love” as well as two interviews with the author.
Acre Books | May 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968209-04-9
This novel is an “immersive adventure story set during the American Civil War” that “follows four travelers as they escape toward the Western territories.”
Killing of a Gentleman Defender by Carlos Murillo
53rd State Press | May 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8989946181
In this play, “Marteen finds himself torn not only by the pronunciation of his name, but by the conflicting needs of the institution and the young people it believes its ‘serving,’ and by a city in a death struggle with its own divided self.”
In Order to Extract the Memory It Is Of Course Necessary to Build the Room by Susana Plotts-Pineda
Futurepoem | May 15, 2026
ISBN: 979–8–988943–99–0
According to Mónica de la Torre, this poetry collection “traces connections between empire; the techno-military-industrial complex; vulcanology (here standing in for geopolitics and attempts to control social unrest); museology, and memory studies.”
Real Enough: The Unlikely Story of Doug & the Slugs by Simon Kendall and Aaron Chapman
Anvil Press | May 16, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77214-221-1
This music biography is “a celebration of Doug and the Slugs, their music, memories, the ups and downs of lifelong friends, who—as a group of musicians after a lifetime of playing together—still make for a good night out.”
Plastic, Prism, Void by Violet Allen
LittlePuss Press | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964322-02-5
In this novel, a “magical girl-gone-bad and a renegade mech pilot must stay on a date forever, even if it means destroying the world.”
Talking to the Wolf by Rebecca Chace
Red Hen Press | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-63628-462-0
In this novel, “a failed rockstar, an awarded scientist, a work-obsessed misanthrope, and a ghost, whose untimely death ruptured the once-solid quartet, steel themselves for their thirty-fifth high school reunion dinner.”
Acts of Resistance: Essential Essays, Archival Encounters, and New Poems by Cheryl Clarke
Sinister Wisdom | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-944981-93-8
In this collection, Clarke’s “sharp, clear-eyed, forceful, and poetic essays offer readers both balm and provocation to action—and they continue to resonate in the current political landscape.”
Book*hug Press | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-77166-976-4
Eddy’s satirical coming-of-age novel “offers readers a fast-paced adventure through the diverging nuances of economics, spirituality, and extraction.”
Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Hahn
Bellevue Literary Press | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-954276-56-7
In this novel, “Eduardo and his younger brother, living in exile for several years in the United States, travel back to their native Guatemala to participate in a Jewish children’s camp in a remote forest of the highland mountains.”
Dear Missing Friend by Susan McGuirk
Sea Crow Press | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961864-54-2
In this epistolary novel, Irish immigrant Catherine McGuirk’s fate “unfolds in an intimate, epistolary saga of passion, resilience, and 19th-century life.”
The Leg in Question by K. W. Oxnard
Unsolicited Press | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963115-85-7
In these short stories, “doctors and patients collide in moments where the body’s mysteries—its failures, obsessions, hungers, and grief—expose the fragile seams between sanity and longing.”
a thread I didn’t know I was hanging by by Peter G. Quinn
Empty Bowl Press | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 9798991740098
In these poems, Quinn “travels back in time and memory, revisiting the seafaring legacy of his father and grandfather and unearthing painful memories along the way.”
If the House Is Inclined to Collapse by Casey Lynn Roland
Fernwood Press | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-222-4
“Against the backdrop of small towns built atop schist and granite, surrounded by violently cold, blue-gray Atlantic waters,” Roland’s collection “offers poems that are both deeply personal and all too universal.”
Jaws by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza
Translated from the Spanish by Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier
Cardboard House Press | May 21, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-945720-43-7
“Through (mis)translation, documentary fragments, and cinematic archive,” the poems in this collection “reveal how capital renders certain lives expendable, human and non-human alike.”
Hidden Companions: Paranormals from the Old City of Jerusalem by Ahmad Nabil
Translated from the Arabic by Fatema Alhashemi
Radix Media | May 21, 2026
ISBN: 979–8–989490–22–6
Written and illustrated by Nabil, this collection of stories “weaves a literary account of paranormal stories: held, shared in whisper networks, relayed over conversations, and passed down as inheritance.”
Thirty West Publishing House | May 22, 2026
ISBN: 979–8–998772–73–3
This novel “explores a year in the life of five Pacific Northwest suburbanites whose worlds weave together through fraught circumstances such as a failing marriage, an unplanned pregnancy, a religious bereavement, and a father of two’s cancer diagnosis.”
American Triage: From 9/11 to Fahrenheit 451 by Adam Axler
Whiskey Tit | May 26, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-952600-68-5
In Axler’s hybrid memoir, “the machinations and demise of American medicine are revealed through sarcasm and tough love, offset by moments of connection and tenderness.”
Fernwood Press | May 26, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-228-6
“At once a philosophical inquiry and an unflinching portrait of a family confronting trauma and its aftermath,” this poetry collection is a “searing reckoning with the limits of monolithic truth in the stories we tell ourselves—and each other.”
Walrus: The Remarkable Life of Eco-Warrior David Garrick by Catherine Marie Gilbert
Ronsdale Press | May 26, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-55380-741-4
This biography offers a “look at the largely unrecognized work of David Garrick, whose intense and unflagging dedication to protecting the earth and its creatures is an inspiration for those who wish to make today’s world a better place.”
Vine Leaves Press | May 26, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-208-1
“When her childhood friend Emma persuades her to adopt a headstrong rescue dog, Libby has no idea how profoundly the decision will reshape them both” in this memoir.
Translated from the Spanish by Alice Banks and Katie Whittemore
Open Letter | May 26, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960385-49-9
“With three closely-drawn character portraits and the pacing of a thriller,” this novel set in Madrid “offers a geography of resilience and despair in a city marked by social and cultural division.”
The Machine is Broken by Jared Sarnie
Fieldmouse Press | May 26, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-956636-66-6
In this graphic novel, “Lux is going to kill herself,” and she, her mother, and her sister “travel to Zurich, home of the world’s first fully legal suicide pod.”
Reconciliations by Mistee St. Clair
Empty Bowl Press | May 26, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9952981-0-6
In this poetry collection, St. Clair “writes of the loss of a parent, first through adoption and the cultural and ancestral loss that follows, and then, in a powerful sequence of poems, of the loss of her birth father to addiction and death.”
Fieldmouse Press | May 26, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-956636-67-3
This graphic novel is a vampire horror romance “set somewhere in the future in a world where vampires are regarded as worthless parasites, objects of derision, and fetish objects.”
Peculiar Perspectives: Life Viewed Through a Mellow Side-eye by Ed Ahern
Prolific Pulse Press | May 29, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-962374-89-7
The poems in Ahern’s collection “offer not answers, but companionship—a recognition that we are all navigating our own peculiar paths, doing the best we can with what we notice, remember, and feel.”
Orange Island by Vanessa Frances
Red Rook Press | May 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-972259-01-6
This novel is set in 2060 Florida as “the state’s corruption festers amid unpredictable storms and climate upheaval, plunging society into a desperate eat the rich struggle for survival.”
Translated into the Spanish by Alaíde Ventura Medina
Piñata Books | May 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-032-4
According to School Library Journal, this installment in the bilingual children’s book series is “full of fun and surprises, with fast-paced chapters and a mystery that is sure to intrigue fans of Latin American folklore.”
This Past Was Waiting For Me: A Chronicle at Quarter Century by Sarah Trembath
Lazuli Literary Press | May 30, 2026
ISBN: 978-0-9994243-9-1
“With its combination of scholarly research, ‘wongol’ poetry, full-color artwork, personal essay, and extracted social media,” this multi-genre collection “reflects Black history onto our present moment.”
Un hogar en todas partes / A Home Everywhere by Juliana Javierre
Piñata Books | May 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-036-2
Self-translated by Javierre, this bilingual picture book features a “heartwarming story that will remind readers home is where love is” and “reassure children that it’s okay to miss people and places.”
Small Sargasso Mountains / Pequeñas cordilleras de sargazo by Antonio Ochoa
Translated from the Spanish by Antonio Ochoa
Nightboat Books | May 19, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64362-309-2
This collection “assembles language, memory, and matter in a current where the borders between poetry and prose, reading and writing, Spanish and English, experience and memory are eroded like a shoreline.”
The Ingredients That Make Us / Los ingredientes que nos hacen lo que somos by David I. Santiago
Piñata Books | May 31, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-035-5
Self-translated into Spanish by Santiago, this bilingual picture book will “encourage young readers to explore their own cultural heritage, all while enjoying Luis’ adventures on his island home.”
Sounds I Cannot Hear Clearly Anymore Add Up to the Sum of Silence by Martin Willitts Jr.
Bainbridge Island Press | May 31, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961451-14-8
“Dedicated to the hearing impaired, the deaf community, and all people who use sign language,” this poetry collection is “about what happens in the spaces where sound should be, and how love persists across every silence.”
