Support independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in September 2026.
Wave Books | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9798891060463
This collection of Choi’s early poems, recent essays, and translation notes “grapples with the politics of distance and language in exploration of anti-colonial logic and identity.”
Wake Me, Shake Me: New York City, the ’60s & the Pop-Rock Youthquake by Mitchell Cohen
Trouser Press Books | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9990487-4-5
“Using new interviews with artists and music business professionals as well as extensive archival research,” this book “charts the course from doo wop to girl groups to folk music to R&B to folk-rock to baroque rock to goodtime music.”
The Patron Saint of White Menageries by Lauren T. Davila
Creature Publishing | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781951971458
In this magical-realism collection of short stories, Davila “cracks Los Angeles open to reveal a kaleidoscope of unlikely heroines, talents, and dreams.”
A Casual Apocalypse in Acapulco by Angelica Esquivel
First Matter Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-958600-14-6
According to Nadia Mota, in this poetry collection “Esquivel sends us back in time, to glimpses of childhood memories, yes, and even further to precolonial México, expertly stitching together a vividly colored quilt of recollection.”
Contra Mundum Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-940625-37-9
“Against the anthropocentric myth of linguistic mastery,” this hybrid collection “proposes a choral poetics wherein stone, soil, water, and stellar plasma each sound through the human sensorium.”
Falling, in Love with Teaching by Patrick Hueller
Poetose | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781646723706
This book of narrative poems by a veteran high school English teacher “reminds us of what makes teaching so vital.”
Translated from the Spanish by Achy Obejas
Graywolf Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-410-7
In this novel “punctuated by original décimas, ten-line rhyming poems drawing from Latin American musical and oral tradition,” Indiana “weaves together Dominican heavy metal, black magic, and political trauma.”
Practicing to Be Lightning by Betsy James
Santa Fe Writers Project | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781951631659
This novel “plunges you into a terrifying quest where the lines between reality and imagination blur, and survival means confronting not just raw nature, but the wilderness of the soul.”
Translated from the Korean by An Seon Jae
Creature Publishing | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781951971519
In this novel, Jeong “braids three lives—a primatologist, a deadbeat, and a trafficked bonobo—in this speculative meditation on communication, control, and what humans owe the animal world.”
Organ Language by Jen Karetnick
Lit Fox Books | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8992232936
This poetry collection “explores the functions of and diseases that affect all sorts of human organs, from brain to skin to tongue, as well as the organisms that this Miami-based poet encounters in her quotidian, subtropical environment.”
Those Who Vanish by Patricia Grace King
University of Pittsburgh Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9780822949237
“Offering readers a direct window into the Guatemalan internal armed conflict,” these short stories “wrestle with the question of individual responsibility in the face of global forces.”
Psalms of Innocence by JoAnne McFarland
Green Linden Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961834-15-6
“Examining the wrenching, under-recognized history of the lynching of Black women in the United States, and the ongoing epidemic of missing Black women and girls,” this collection of poetry and visual art “unearths and honors some of our most vulnerable citizens.”
Alhamdulillah Anyway by Moudi Sbeity
Fernwood Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-243-9
According to Ellen Rowland, the poems in this collection “convey the ugliness and inhumanity of war and oppression, prejudice and incomprehension, otherness and comparison with a remarkable lens of compassion, nostalgia, and love.”
The Necklace of Seven Souls by Hooda Shawa
Translated from the Arabic by Nour Jaljuli and Sawad Hussain
Yonder | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781632064073
In this YA novel, “two Palestinian teenagers discover secrets that change all they thought they knew about their family histories, and their own futures.”
Graywolf Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-412-1
This poetry collection “documents a desperate desire to create life despite an increasingly inhospitable and unsustainable world” and is a “harsh recognition that life goes on with or without the permission of the grieving self.”
Red Hen Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781636284682
In this debut poetry collection, Speace “tackles the internal language of coming together and splitting apart, evoking rivers and birds, the South and the North, weather and racism and family history and it all comes together like birdsong.”
Two Lines Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781966192022
This collection introducing readers to poetry by Camila Sosa Villada, Luka Holmegaard, Kim Sono, Ida Hove Solberg, and Pascale Bérubé “is an ode to queer bodies, with previously unpublished translations from Argentina, Denmark, Korea, Norway, and Quebec.”
Stepsisters: Short Stories by Irish Women Writing in Irish
Schaffner Press | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781639640867
Edited by Brian Ó Conchubhair and Tara MacLeod, this anthology of short fiction “includes ghost stories, tales with O’Henry-esque twists, literary stories, humorous fiction, stories set in rural-Irish-speaking Ireland, English-speaking Ireland, Northern Ireland, urban Ireland and abroad.”
The Sleepers by Molly Sturdevant
Regal House Publishing | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 9781646037988
“In the lofty terrain of America’s highest silver-mining town, Congress’s sudden gold standard sends silver—and the lives tied to it—plummeting” in this novel centered on an Irish-immigrant neighborhood in 1893.
Antiphony | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9907346-8-5
“Influenced by the experimental music of contemporary Beijing,” this poetry collection “documents the slow and quick passage of time in a placeless place—sometimes on the screen, sometimes around people and things.”
Landfill by André Le Mont Wilson
Salon des Refusés | September 1, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961834-12-5
According to Frank Spinelli, Wilson’s poetry collection “excavates a formative summer working at a city sanitation yard—a landscape of garbage trucks, locker-room porn, and predatory supervision that shadowed the lives of vulnerable boys long before his own.”
Li Po, Li Hua, and the Sophist by Peter Bethanis
Fernwood Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-59498-237-8
This poetry collection “explores themes of spirituality, war, love, and art through three characters” who “face challenges and hardships on their respective journeys through different cultural landscapes.”
The Raven, the Wolf, and the Rose by Elise Chidley
Flare Books | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 9781963511642
In this novel, “seventeen-year-old parkour champion, Willow McBane, is uprooted from London to a crumbling cottage in Gloucestershire” and meets “Raff Dunaid, a secretive boy with the bearing of a prince.”
Baobab Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-936097-72-2
In this poetry collection, “the lyric image, in all its ambiguous potential, flexes the tensions between Capitalism’s mass-produced nightmares and the individually strange experiences of death, art, and queerness.”
35 Years of Pickles by Brian Crane
Baobab Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-936097-58-6
“Including full-color strips never published in a collected format,” this archival comic collection will “delight the lifetime fans continuing their journeys with this award-winning strip, as well as new fans the Pickles family is eager to welcome into their home and hearts.”
Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn: Poems and Micro-Stories about Modern Midwest Monsters, Volume 2
Middle West Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-953665-40-9
This multi-genre anthology, edited by Randy Brown, “collects nearly 70 short poems and 400-word narratives of mythic beasts that illuminate, celebrate, or challenge stereotypes of Midwestern identity.”
The Martyrs, The Lovers by Catherine Gammon
Baobab Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 9781936097746
“Loosely based on the life and death of the activist and founder of the German Green Party, Petra Kelly, and her partner Gerd Bastien,” this novel “calls attention to the perennial challenges that informed the lives and deaths of these activists.”
Portrait of a Nation in Peril by Michael Gellert
Reputation Books | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 9781944387419
In this book, Gellert “argues that we’ve lost touch with our founding vision, our sense of purpose and direction, resulting in the sharp polarization splitting our nation apart today.”
53rd State Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 9798992283945
According to Elliot Reed, this play is an “errant love story moonlighting as psychological horror” in which “Nazareth reaffirms that true radical queerness lives at the bowl’s edge.”
Nine Grudges: The Spiteful Origins of the Happiest Dyke on Earth by Molly McCloy
Red Hen Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 9781636284880
“After a vivid nightmare involving her dad, Molly writes him a letter, asking him to apologize for nine instances of mental, verbal, and physical abuse” in this memoir.
Arthur Conolly, Victorian Spy by David H. Mould
Blackwater Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963614-39-8
According to Peter John Brobst, this book about British officer and spy Arthur Conolly “reveals how the improvisational espionage of empire laid the foundations for the modern intelligence systems that still shape global strategy today.”
some were just the Fragments // es que fueron solo los Fragmentos by Misael Osorio-Conde
Self-translated from the Spanish by Osorio-Conde
Baobab Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-936097-70-8
The poems in this bilingual collection “reenact the cultural, psychological, and linguistic border-crossing that Osorio-Conde experienced as part of his formative years where he learned to live in the shadows of exile as well as a new language.”
Translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith
Open Letter | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960385-54-3
“Taking us from the grandeur of rural Iceland to the glossy, sticky world of 1970s air travel, via check fraud, thwarted ambition and lost astronauts,” this novel is about “reinvention, dislocation, and the forceful gravity of the lives and selves.”
Breath Taking by Carolyn Smart
Book*hug Press | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 9781771669863
This poetry collection meditating on the death of Smart’s partner is a “tender recollection of illness, death, and grief, sensitively exploring the dynamic between the burden of care and the burden of dying.”
Manufacturing a Duchess by Tracy Wise
Type Eighteen Books | September 8, 2026
ISBN: 979-8993351902
According to Ray Thompson, “this story of how a proposed marriage of convenience develops into a love match offers perceptive insights into several important, related issues.”
A Little Pretty Personality by Berta García Faet
Translated from the Spanish by Kelsi Vanada
Cardboard House Press | September 9, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-945720-45-1
García Faet’s bilingual poetry collection “summons writings from across eras to assay a communal hymn that examines historical trajectories and constructions of romance, love and gender.”
The Green Man’s Debt by Juliet E. McKenna
Wizard’s Tower Press | September 10, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-917950-48-0
In this modern fantasy, the son of a dryad “knows asking someone from the supernatural world for a favour means there’ll be a price to pay, sooner or later.”
The Bone China Years by Barry Schwabsky
Black Square Editions | September 10, 2026
ISBN: 9798996167012
This poetry collection explores the idea that the “peculiar matters that make up poetry are wholly of this world yet can be somehow quite unearthly.”
delivering a body by Tianee Harris
Finishing Line Press | September 11, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-658-9
This poetry collection explores “grief after miscarriage and abortion, where womanhood, motherhood, sex, and survival converge.”
Finishing Line Press | September 11, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-659-6
Horton’s debut collection “asks us to reflect on the ways we learn to survive in an unsteady and often unsafe world.”
The Silver Baron’s Wife by Donna Baier Stein
Serving House Books | September 14, 2026
ISBN: 9780986214646
This novel, published in a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Baier Stein, “traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado’s Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie),” who “worked in the silver mines and had two scandalous marriages.”
Magic Lantern by Joan Aleshire
Four Way Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961897-90-8
“Conceived of as a memoir in poems of late-life love and its betrayal,” Magic Lantern “traces the borders of loss and investigates the source of our strength to traverse them.”
mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning] by Gelsey Bell
53rd State Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8992283938
This opera “tells the story of what would transpire if all humans disappeared from Earth, starting in the present day and moving to 1.6 billion years into the future when life can no longer survive on the planet.”
American Moon by David W. Berner
Regal House Publishing | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781646037537
In this novel, a man on a cross-country journey and a mother battling addiction “navigate the ruins of their lives, seeking hope, healing, and a chance to reclaim what remains of the American Dream.”
University of Pittsburgh Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9780822968351
This poetry collection “oscillates between Queer childhood erasure and the AIDS epidemic, pulling from the ACT UP oral history project, informal interviews with survivors, and AIDS historians.”
Dragonfly Puzzle Box by Elya Braden
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-962405-94-2
Braden’s poems reflect on events such as “an early marriage born in hope and dissolved in divorce, a motherhood forged in the shadow of a flawed mother,” and “the rediscovery of self in the many-mirrored hall of relationships.”
I Am Trying to Love the Whole World by Jenny Browne
Boa Editions | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781968507039
According to Matt Donovan, these poems “brim with both loss and beauty as they bear down brilliantly on grief and the forever-failable human heart.”
Lunar Ring Finger by Annie Le Brun
Translated from the French by Marine Cornuet
Black Sun Lit | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9863664-7-0
“Resuscitating the primordial imperative of French Surrealism,” this poetry collection “inhabits the psychic forests of childhood … and manifests a possible future out of visceral marvelousness.”
Observations from the Well by Rick Christiansen
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781962405959
“Moving from public tragedies to intimate moments of family, friendship, aging, and everyday kindness,” the poems in this collection “ask how we bear witness to one another without turning away.”
Thumb to Thumb… and Yet by Peter Coyote
Four Way Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961897-98-4
Coyote’s second collection “presents eighty-plus years of living … not as a retrospective but as a perpetual process of becoming.”
Four Way Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961897-86-1
Cruz’s tenth poetry collection “takes the concept of twilight and presents, through a series of elliptical poems, a working through of the term.”
Trouser Press Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9990487-8-3
In this memoir, Dick “recounts his wild ride from record company motorcycle messenger to one of the world’s leading music video directors.”
Never Just a Game by James Engelhardt
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-962405-89-8
This poetry collection “explores how the often-overlooked human practice of playing games can inform our lived experiences from the intimate and domestic to the cultural and historical.”
The Price of Breathing by Melanie Faith
Vine Leaves Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-194-7
This story told in poems is “about the strength and meaning of first love long after the sweethearts have parted, the teamwork and ties that bind later-in-life bonds, and the challenges of living with chronic illness.”
Any Kind of Known Tomorrow by Leah De Forest
Betty | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9923690-3-8
In this novel set in March 2020, “Hadley’s small Brooklyn apartment becomes a pressure cooker in which four women must navigate a rapidly unfolding pandemic, a bee invasion—and each other.”
Tending the Flock by Sally Green
Empty Bowl Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9952981-1-3
According to Barry Sternlieb, the poems in Green’s collection “define, span, and capture the enduring essence of life in rural Washington from every conceivable angle.”
Leap & Grow Feathers by Yona Harvey
Four Way Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961897-96-0
In these poems, Harvey “listens—to her predecessors, her instincts, and her environment—gleaning sense from the static fraying our nerves, knowing the personal and the historical travel along the same frequency.”
Spine of the Hug by Alec Hershman
Iron Oak Editions | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9896084-7-8
In this debut poetry collection, “the speaker moves between both intimate and vast landscapes, from hospital corridors to Kentucky caves, from childhood ponds to adult solitude.”
Into the Into of Earth Itself by Amanda Hodes
Black Lawrence Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781625572202
This poetry collection “cycles through an ecology of voices, from bacteria to pigeons to weeds, all the while exploring sexual assault and chronic illness, questioning what it truly means to be ‘natural’ or ‘clean.’”
Unbalancing Act by M. M. Kelly
Four Way Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961897-92-2
Unbalancing Act is “a haunting collection of poems about the particular physics of loving and losing—about the way grief, desire, memory, and awe can tip a life off its axis, and right it again.”
In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts by Gwendolyn Kiste
Creature Publishing | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781951971489
In this novel Kiste “holds up a dark, queer mirror to The Great Gatsby,” creating “a haunting exploration of the obsession and control at the edges of an American classic.”
Wave Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9798891060470
This poetry collection “documents caring for small children, the death of the mother, and the simultaneous anxiety and darkness of impending birth, as Lasky transmits from a deep mythic and biologically immediate space.”
Elegy for Pangaea by Mark Leidner
Fonograf Editions | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964499-69-7
The poems in Leidner’s third collection “explore faith, grief, money, myth, parenting, and poetry itself.”
Miller Cane: A True & Exact History by Samuel Ligon
Slant Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781639822355
In this novel, “professional liar Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy groups for survivors of mass shootings—and business is booming.”
Epstein Oratorio or, A Modern Hymn to Demeter by Karen Malpede
Tough Poets Review, Inc. | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9798234189660
In this play, an “exposé of the ‘Epstein class’ unfolds against the iconic mother-daughter myth of Demeter and Persephone.”
Think of It As Music by Penelope Moffet
Sheila-Na-Gig Editions | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-962405-91-1
The poems in this collection “address street sounds that intrude on a solitary life, memories of past loves, speculations about non-human creatures, and stories about friends and the natural world.”
In the Form of Bread: On Becoming Human by Mary Jane Nealon
Four Way Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961897-94-6
The vignettes in this collection “ask what price we pay when we offer ourselves wholeheartedly to one another, and what it means to remain open to being more than human in a fractured world.”
Cliff Dwellers by Harry Newman
Silverfish Review Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-878851-28-4
This collection is “an interweaving of political and personal poetry on state violence and militarism and their compounding effects on our lives.”
Four Way Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961897-88-5
The poems in Orr’s second collection “attend to ordinary things not as symbols waiting to be elevated, but as the actual substance of our shared existence.”
The Lonely Girl’s Vegetable Patch by Genevieve Plunkett
Amethyst Editions | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781558613713
This novel set in small-town Vermont in 2005 is a “rural romp through bisexual awakening and obsessive love, as told by one unforgettably unhinged millennial.”
Postmuslim: A Testimony by Youssef Rakha
Graywolf Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-64445-415-2
Rakha’s debut essay collection “tells the story of Islam’s clash with the West in the last thirty years from a perspective rarely available to the Western reader.”
Host Publications | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9905483-8-1
“A queer necromancy,” this debut poetry collection “immerses us in a landscape of personal and collective loss, where grief is not a process with beginning and end, but a churning ecology we inhabit.”
Dancing at the End of the World by Michelle Sacks
Red Hen Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781636285092
“Beginning in 1933 amidst the rumblings of fascism and the demise of the Weimar Republic,” this short fiction collection centered on Berlin “weaves seamlessly through the defining years of the iconic city.”
Études for the Image, or the Cinder Path by Zach Savich
Green Linden Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-961834-13-2
“Following the death of his sister, whose life involved complex care,” Savich “explores how images and phrases can echo through us” in this book-length hybrid essay.
Everything Has Been Moved, Even the Dead by Jen Siraganian
Perugia Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9798996077205
In this poetry collection, Siraganian “traces a self shaped by history, fragmentation, and memory as she weaves her family’s past in the Middle East with her identity as an Armenian-American woman and mother.”
Searching for Anthony Love: A History of Dust by Ginger Teppner
Etruscan Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9798990767898
“Told through fragments, meditations, and moments of startling clarity,” this novel “traces how love continues to shape consciousness long after its object is gone.”
Understory: An Anthology from the American South, Volume 2
Loblolly Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9943089-7-4
This anthology gathers “poetry and prose from writers across the American South, inviting work resilient and surprising enough to make us re-see, in some way, how the American South is perceived.”
Sagging Meniscus Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-963846-48-5
In this novel—a sequel to Tabitha, Get Up—the protagonist “faces a determined antagonist and a possible new love, or the return of what appeared to be lost love.”
Manual for How to Live Magnificently by Ernie Wang
Acre Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-968209-10-0
This debut short fiction collection “turns the ordinary into sweeping tragicomedy, probing the small, daily confrontations that shape a life well lived.”
Book of Hours by Ellen O’Connell Whittet
Dzanc Books | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 9781938603952
This novel “confronts the erasure of women’s stories, historically and presently, through the lens of medieval mysticism and contemporary motherhood.”
Recipes for Grief by Jonathan Wlodarski
Abode Press | September 15, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9955832-2-6
Wlodarski’s chapbook is “a collection of three surreal stories where food and mourning become inseparable.”
Glisk, and Other Partial Sightings by Sarah Gorham
Finishing Line Press | September 18, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-664-0
Gorham’s chapbook is “profoundly whimsical in its choice of subject, assured in its linguistic mastery, and magical in its effect on the reader.”
We Are All But Fumbling Creatures by Chad B. Anderson
Burrow Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781941681374
Combining short stories with mixed media artworks, this collection “explores the tangled impacts of history, geography, trauma, and the natural world on who we become and what we pass down.”
Ferry Tales by Abrea Armstrong
Red Hen Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781636285030
This debut novel follows Anana Freedman “as she reconnects with her African heritage and confronts the legacies of diaspora, identity, and corporate America.”
The Comedian’s Book of the Dead by Gary Barwin
Book*hug Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781771669887
In this novel centered on a quest to the underworld, “Death is a comedian and devoted family man, but everything falls apart when the Fates choose him to guide departed souls to the Beneath.”
Hub City Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9798885740814
The poems in this collection “tell the story of a trans man coming into a new literal and figurative voice while finding language for the world around him.”
University of Pittsburgh Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9780822968375
“Equal parts sad, sexy, and searching,” Crowe’s poetry collection “opens with the central lament/brag of its lover-speaker, that she can never truly leave anything—or anyone—behind.”
Gilded Revival by Jennine Capó Crucet and Crystal Pearl Molinary
Burrow Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781941681398
This collaborative collection of fiction and photography “explores the act of adornment as a form of baptism and renewal; as protection; as protest; as self-designed spirituality manifest.”
Stray Voltage by Karen Garloch
Regal House Publishing | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781646037582
In this debut novel, “a mysterious illness strikes the family’s dairy herd, threatening their livelihood,” and “Hillie discovers a possible cause that is linked to the farm’s electrical supply.”
The Strongest Woman in the World by Steinunn G. Helgadóttir
Translated from the Icelandic by Larissa Kyzer
Open Letter | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-960385-56-7
In this novel, the threads of two siblings—“Gunnhildur’s superhero-like strength and Eiður’s activism—come together at a jail, where Gunnhildur attempts to prove that she really is the strongest woman in the world.”
Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Restless Books | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781632064332
In this novel set “in a land forgotten by time, swept by sandstorms, and burdened by occupation, two young Palestinian men fall in love.”
The Decadent Movement by Laura Kolbe
University of Pittsburgh Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9780822968368
“Beginning a year after childbirth in the harried throes of marriage and parenting,” this poetry collection “marvels at death’s near-identical twin—that infinite period of nonexistence that precedes each new life.”
Light & Earth & Marrow by Jeannie Marschall
Shiraki Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-970458-11-4
In this speculative novel, a witch lives “alongside her dead but far-from-gone wife Ralda, cultivating their garden, respecting the Others, and teaching the children the ways and the Paths … until their peace is shattered by the rumble of construction next door.”
Witches of the Wheel by Lindsay Merbaum
Creature Publishing | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781951971540
In this novel, a woman “stumbles into a job at The Wheel, a literally-underground lesbian bar where a coven gathers every Thursday and each entrance requires a painful sacrifice.”
Blood Is Dripping onto the Courtyard by Elvira Navarro
Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Two Lines Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781966192077
These short stories take place in a world of “cities that are nothing more than blocks of concrete whose contours Navarro distort to the point of giving reality the consistency of a nightmare.”
At the River by Esteban Rodriguez
Fonograf Editions | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 9781964499727
Rodriguez’s book-length poem “asks what it means to live on the border, and how one can come to terms with the symbolic weight of crossing between two worlds.”
Midnight’s Daughter by Sarita Sarvate
Vine Leaves Press | September 22, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-283-8
Sarvate’s memoir is “an intimate personal story and a powerful meditation on racism, colonialism, motherhood, and the patriarchal forces surrounding women’s lives—including the hidden roots of her mother’s mental illness.”
La Otra Cara by Dahlia Aguilar
Finishing Line Press | September 25, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-669-5
Aguilar’s poems “explore how the past binds us to the suffering of our ancestors as much as it links us to their brilliance and resistance.”
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | September 25, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-68003-424-0
In this collection of lyric essays, Cohen “explores the often-isolating divide between what we easily express to ourselves internally and what’s unbearable to articulate to another person.”
Sandstone and Kin by Camille LeFevre
Finishing Line Press | September 25, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89990-670-1
In her debut poetry collection, LeFevre “ventures beyond the postcard-pretty optics of Northern Arizona’s spectacular red-rock landscape into an eco-poetics of home.”
Woman, Wolf, Carbon Capture by Noelle Catharine Allen
Black Lawrence Press | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 9781625572141
According to Dawn Corrigan, this fiction chapbook grapples with “international monetary policy, the #metoo movement, McMansions, and always, always sustainability and the pain of watching the climate disaster unfold in real time.”
Modern Artist Press | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964403-09-0
This debut novel about the Virgin Mary’s life before motherhood “gives voice to one of the most famous mothers, narrating an unforgettable and resounding story of feminine identity, strength, and choice.”
128 LIT | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9884471-5-3
Felsher’s novel “obliterates the boundaries between boyhood and manhood, boss and worker, kindness and exploitation, public and private life.”
The Blue Eye of Earth by Beckian Fritz Goldberg
University of Pittsburgh Press | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 9780822968382
According to Anna Journey, Goldberg “directs her puckish gaze at the harsh beauty of the Arizona badlands, the uncanny ache of an estranged childhood, and the confounding mysteries of body and spirit” in these poems.
Beneath a Fallen Sky by Scott Gould
Regal House Publishing | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 9781646037797
According to Ethan Rutherford, this novel “brings the Sand Mountain region and its inhabitants to full, singing life as they anxiously await the arrival of Halley’s Comet in the spring of 1910.”
Vine Leaves Press | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 978-3-98832-281-4
“Spanning more than sixty years” in post-war Britain, this book is “a rich, witty, and deeply humane novel about friendship, politics, family, and the complicated relationship between private lives and public history.”
Ahead of All Parting by Barry Michels
Spiegel and Grau | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 9781966302179
This book is “a short, inspirational memoir about unleashing life in the face of death.”
Ofelia and Norma by Donna Miscolta
Regal House Publishing | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 9781646037896
According to Alex Espinoza, this novel “fractures time and voice to tell the story of twin sisters who drift apart in the aftermath of private and public violences.”
Red Hen Press | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 9781636285153
According to Jose Dalisay Jr., in this novel Soliven “takes us back to the dancehalls of Depression-era California where Filipino men descend to slake their thirst for liquor and companionship.”
Snails of the Apocalypse by Martha Zweig
River River Books | September 29, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-9926116-6-3
Zweig’s fifth poetry collection “takes on life’s most persistent questions and refuses to settle for familiar answers.”
They Hold Grudges by Diana Rojas
Arte Público Press | September 30, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-042-3
In this psychological novel centered on a family, “gossip and whispers swirl, unleashing doubts, paranoia and betrayal, while Rob embarks on a desperate quest to clear his name.”
La huella de tu nombre by Julieta Vitullo
Arte Público Press | September 30, 2026
ISBN: 979-8-89375-047-8
Vitullo’s debut, Spanish-language novel “follows an Argentine woman living in the United States who is pulled back to her home country in search of answers about a deceased friend.”
