Add this amazing #AWP26 featured event to your schedule in Baltimore: “Rewriting the Archive: Poetic Voices on Who Defines History, Sponsored by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social” featuring Natalie Diaz, Kondwani Fidel, Tyehimba Jess, Iain Haley Pollock, and @leighsugar.bsky.social, on Friday, March 6!

Someday, if I am Lucky #poetry by Matthew Nienow @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

According to Aracelis Girmay, these poems depict “other past and simultaneous selves changed by injury, intimacy, notions of citizenship, and nation.” Read Janine Joseph’s DECADE OF THE BRAIN (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth: www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/de...

“should I say / you beat us / too / in the shower / in public / on the face / with boots / with a chair leg / chased Vicky / to cut her / awful hair / told us / get work done / more tits / less chin” — @estherwslin.bsky.social, “Up the Mountain Down the Fields” @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

New #poetry #books from University of Iowa Press, @redhenpress.bsky.social, Tin House Books, Persea, @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, Nightwood Editions, Coach House Books, @boa-editions.bsky.social, New Directions & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...

"Owed to My Father's Accent", a poem by Ally Ang https://spare.poems.com/poem/owed-to-my-fathers-accent/ via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

🎉 Happy Pub Day to ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES by Iain Haley Pollock 🎉 A candid collection on violence, racial justice, and what it means to be American. 🔗 ORDER NOW: bit.ly/possiblebodies

I've been rereading @estherwslin.bsky.social's Cold Thief Place since January when I got an early copy from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social. It's already one of my favorite books.

Thanks for sharing this poem from my forthcoming book Let the Moon Wobble (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) 🌝

So proud to celebrate @estherwslin.bsky.social and her stunning debut COLD THIEF PLACE, just longlisted for the 76th National Book Awards! 🌟 A rare honor for a first collection + a testament to Esther’s extraordinary voice. Congrats to Esther and all this year’s nominees! 💐📚 #NBAwards

Big congrats to DeeSoul Carson, named a 2025 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellow! 🎉 And cheers to Sarah Ghazal Ali, a finalist this year—AJB is so proud to publish you both! Learn more: buff.ly/KWx91wz 🌟

For the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day #4 I read Joan Larkin's latest work Old Stranger. Enigmatic image-driven poems, interior/sense memory, haunting works. From @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social #LGBTQAI #poetics

📣 We're hiring! AJB seeks a part-time Production Coordinator (20–25 hrs/wk) in New Gloucester, ME. Join our team & help bring books to life! 2–3 yrs experience preferred. Must commute 2+ days/wk. 📚 Details: bit.ly/AJBSubmit #PublishingJobs #MaineJobs #BookJobs

🎉 Happy Pub Day to SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein! A luminous debut exploring transition, illness, and the body as a site of transformation—spiritual, physical, and public. Out now from Alice James Books: bit.ly/saint-conseq...

Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social, with readings by @theoceanisgay.bsky.social & Shelby Handler. ✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby 📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq #SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse

Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social #poetry

SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein is on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list! This collection from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social is “a book of 21st century transits … towards the culture and language of Russia, out of one gender and into another.” www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/sa...

“My petitioner is interested in sex. / His distinguishing feature is a hibiscus tattoo. / My petitioner’s mother dislikes me. / Her son would never marry someone like me.” — @estherwslin.bsky.social, “Ms. L— Describe Your Petitioner” @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/536048/two-p...

I Don’t Want To Be Understood by @sadqueer4life.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ‬⁩ #poetry #transpoetry

Leigh Sugar’s debut poetry collection “dramatizes what it’s like to stand on the outside looking in ... to live within a love confined by the state.” —Edward Hirsch FREELAND (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #DisabilityPrideMonth: www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/fr...

Matthew Nienow, If Nothing / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/matt...

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@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social is currently having a 30% off and buy-two-get-one-free sale through tomorrow if you want to preorder Let the Moon Wobble! www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/le...

New book mail! @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social @blacklawrence.bsky.social

"I hear what we are meant for outside this room." #TodaysPoem #poetry Here by Jean Valentine from Light Me Down - The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (2024 @AliceJamesBooks.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/dex2wank

#BefriendaBook to support 1 of 11 upcoming AJB titles by funding editorial, production, or promotion 📚 Each donation enters you to win signed copies of all 11 books — a full shelf of poetry from debut and award-winning voices! Give now → bit.ly/BefriendaBook

Sneak peek from Andrés Cerpa's THE PALACE, coming in Jan 🌟

Leigh Sugar, Freeland / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/leig...

Look who’s in Poets & Writers! 🎉 Honored to see @leighsugar.bsky.social‬'s FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work. More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫

Thrilled to welcome @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social‬ back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌 Expansive poems on memory, theory & time. 🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc

Grateful for early love for ‪@leighsugar.bsky.social‬'s FREELAND: ✨ @electricliterature.com interview on love, prison & poetry buff.ly/T6ZFunM ⭐ Bear Review: “a work of obsession & analysis” buff.ly/AgcCkvj 📝 @phillychapbook.bsky.social:‬ “Ars Poetica” + note buff.ly/HLEIIzB Thanks for reading 📖

Mia Ayumi Malhotra, Mothersalt / @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/mia-...

A short essay I wrote on writing poetry while undocumented. Many thanks to @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social and @timemagazine.bsky.social

@estherwslin.bsky.social‬'s essay, “I Was Undocumented for 21 Years,” is now in TIME Magazine. Her story of living without status from age 4 to 27 arrives at a crucial moment. Esther is the author of COLD THIEF PLACE, published by AJB in March 💛 📰 buff.ly/F7vc223

FREELAND by @leighsugar.bsky.social‬ is out today from Alice James: bit.ly/FREEL4ND 🖤🤍 A fierce, inventive debut tracing a love across prison walls and the systems of mass incarceration. Poems on race, memory, mental illness, and freedom. Available now wherever books are sold 📚

"[C]ould there be a poetry that does investigate the body without explosion?" Read an excerpt from @leighsugar.bsky.social's book, FREELAND, from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social, along with words from the author. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt...

“I lived, / the coal of my heart on a slow / burn, no time to lose, no such / thing as time, eyes tuned / to the lack of light, skull / locked tight, crowned alive, the King / of Lost Keys.” —Matthew Nienow, “What Luck” @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

Read “Portrait of the Alcoholic with Withdrawal” by Kaveh Akbar: bit.ly/4dKXbNQ @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to welcome Olatunde Osinaike to Alice James Books for his second collection, IMAGE + LIKENESS, out August 2027 🙌 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4kwud76 📚 Preorder 20% off: bit.ly/imglikeness

🎉 Exciting news! AUTOBIOMYTHOGRAPHY OF by Ayokunle Falomo has won the 2025 Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing! 💙 Huge thanks to the MWPA! 📖 Out Sept 2024 from Alice James Books 🔗 buff.ly/85oIsGD #MaineLiteraryAwards #AliceJamesBooks

Bay Area readers—this one’s for you! 🌟 Don’t miss acclaimed poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra, author of MOTHERSALT, as the featured reader at the Burlingame Public Library Poetry Open Mic on June 11 at 6 PM. 📍 Full event details at buff.ly/4xLuPsS

ICYMI: We’re thrilled to share that @sarahali.bsky.social‬ has won the Gold Medal in Poetry at the #CaliforniaBookAwards for her stunning debut, THEOPHANIES! 🏅✨ Check out the full list of honorees at buff.ly/GDMcaLB

In FREELAND, Leigh Sugar “obsessively searches form and language to communicate what happens in the U.S. mass incarceration system.” Preorder a forthcoming poetry collection from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social this #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/a/500/978194...

Read THE HOLY & BROKEN BLISS by Alicia Ostriker (@alicejamesbooks.bsky.social) this #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: The poems in this collection “are grounded in daily existence, human tenderness, the rituals of a long marriage, and the poet’s ongoing spiritual quest.” bookshop.org/a/500/978194...

🔵 New interview up with poet, artist and teacher Mia Ayumi Malhotra 🔵 Mia’s new poetry collection, Mothersalt, is out TODAY from @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social(!!!) emilymohnslate.substack.com/p/holding-my...

POETRY WINNER, GOLD Theophanies by @sarahali.bsky.social @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social

and Elizabeth Metzger's review of "Light Me Down: The New and Collected Poems of Jean Valentine," published by @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/draw...

📣 We’ve lost our NEA funding, and the future is uncertain. But we’re still here—and still committed to publishing bold, beautiful books that amplify unheard voices. 💡 Give. Share. Connect. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/AJBNEAFund #SupportIndiePublishing #AliceJamesBooks

Thrilled to launch MOTHERSALT by Mia Ayumi Malhotra—a lyrical exploration of motherhood & matrilineal memory. Out now from Alice James Books: bit.ly/Mothersalt 💛 📍 SF friends: Join us at Green Apple Books on the Park tomorrow 5/14, 7PM for a reading & signing! buff.ly/E21bgRT

We’re celebrating the release of Leigh Sugar’s powerful debut, FREELAND, with a multi-city book tour—starting with a launch at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor and closing out at Singapore Unbound in NYC. See the graphic for more details! Hope to see you at a stop near you 🫶