First Look at Fall Books!

May 15, 2025

Welcome, Editors, Reviewers, Producers — we’re excited to share a snapshot of the books we’re working on in the 2nd half of 2025. This list is rich with witchery and wildness, celebrations of place and personhood, and ways the ordinary turns extraordinary, whether that's simply by existing in extraordinary times, tapping into our superpowers, confronting ghosts, processing grief, or dismantling traditional power structures, individually and collectively. Check back for updates as more details become available, and please reach out if you’d like ARCs or more info!

• PROTOCOLS: An Erasure by Daniela Naomi Molnar (Poem, Essay; Ayin Press, Jun 24 - 9781961814233)
  A book-length erasure poem that transforms the world's most influential antisemitic document, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, into an exploration of how weaponized language can be hammered into a tool for healing. Accompanied by a lyric essay that explores personal and collective history and the poet's deep connection to the source text.

• The Elsewhere Oracle by Michele Battiste (Poems, Black Lawrence Press, Aug 12 - 9781625571939)
  A book-plus-oracle-deck boxed set that pairs poems with iconic art to tell the story of a shadowy mountain town lost to time and how its fate is intertwined with your own.

• Reveille by Liza Hudock (Poems, Flood Editions, Aug 25 - 9798985787481)

  Standout debut collection offering an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking. Pithy poems, as elegant and wise as they are whimsical.

• small lives by Gary Jackson (Poems, University of New Mexico Press, Sep 2 - 9780826368423)
  A graphic novel in verse - hybrid persona poems spoken by Black American superhero fantasy archetypes who enliven and embody a country's shared traumas and racially-motivated conflicts.

• tic tic tic by Heidi Seaborn (Poems, Cornerstone Press, Sep 16 - 9781968148072)
  An unrelenting lyric chronicle of ordinary time (2020-2025) that elevates the tensions between our current urgent moment and history’s expanse; ultimately reaffirming the persistence of love and faith in the human spirit.

• Frame Inside A Frame by Daniel Lassell (Poems, Texas Review Press, Sep 16 - 9781680034288)
  A poetic composition of visceral childhood recollections that explores the boundaries, overlaps, surprises, and portals inherent to memory.

• Body Memory by Meriwether Clarke (Poems, Unsolicited Press, Oct 7 - 9781963115628)

  Another arresting debut that traces the formation of identity against a landscape of gendered dehumanization, alienation, and violence. Clarke’s poems illuminate an interior voice searching for independence and connection amidst personal loss, social isolation, and righteous rage—an essential perspective on contemporary femininity.

• Guardians & Saints by Diane Josefowicz (Stories, Cornerstone Press, Oct 21 - 9781968148096)
  A collection of linked stories, exploring the ways modern orphans fail to thrive. Faced with the incapacity of those they depend on, the characters appeal, with varying success, to teachers, mentors, therapists, guardians, and occasionally saints.

• The Hungriest Stars by Carey Salerno (Poems, Persea Books, Oct 28 - 9780892556304)
  A poet's elegy to her uterus - maximalist poems with an intense hunger to live to the fullest, reflecting on and redefining what it means to be a woman.

• Book of Exemplary Women by Diana Xin (Stories, YesYes Books, Dec 2 - 9781946303097)
  Part realism, part haunted magic, a debut collection of stories linked across three generations of women who strain with quiet rebellion against the expectations that rule their lives.

• A Grain of Sand in Lambeth by Geoffrey Babbit (Poems, University of Nevada Press - Dec 2)

  A Grain of Sand in Lambeth is an invitation to experience the world through Blake’s eyes—a world where imagination reigns supreme and art is a living force.

• The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor: A catalog by Kathryn Cowles (Poems, Fence Books - Dec 9)

  Because her art was so often experiential, conceptual, fleeting, fragile, or intentionally self-destroying, much of what we have left is this residual after-writing, a kind of fossil record.