Poetry. Winner of the Snowbound Chapbook Award, selected by Lia Purpura. With funky tempos and stretched, staggering lines, Matt Donovan's new sequence interrogates the ways our daily lives teem with
Literary Nonfiction. This is an inspiring book about writing and—more unusually—a book that honors ambition, that idiosyncratic drive that compels writers and other artists to action despite every kin
Literary Nonfiction. Life in Art Series. Poet and essayist Peter Stitt describes not a perfect life achieved, but his search for that ideal, writing of books he has loved and of the often difficult li
Fiction. In the late nineteenth century, in Washington Square, two children play with a red balloon...and so begins the strange romance between Daniel, beautiful and tiny, and Grace, known as The Fat
Fiction. Can we ever truly know another person, however well-loved? Brainy, decent, funny, and likeable, the members of Horace Houseman's family and his closest friend possess quirky and compelling in
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. INTIMATE is a hybrid memoir and "photo album" that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine th
Fiction. Floyd Skloot's new book gathers sixteen stories that combine unsentimental comedy and forceful emotion. As in his award-winning poetry and memoirs, Skloot's fiction shows how individual peopl
Poetry. In her second book, Jennifer Militello investigates the tensions of identity as a source of illness and health. BODY THEASAURUS presents the human physique as a flawed conduit and, through poe
Poetry. LGBT Studies. In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay "Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves," Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: "Pseudonyms, heteron
Poetry. Winner of the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry, selected by Paisley Rekdal. YES THORN abides with mysteries—mortality, spirituality, sexuality, nature, divinity, love—and i
Personal Science investigates what happens when the imagined life and the stories we tell ourselves become terrifying. Yielding to no strict genre boundaries, Bertram's poems reveal in new ways our hu
Poetry. Winner of The Berkshire Prize, Tupelo Press's First / Second Book Award, chosen by Dan Beachy-Quick. Kristina Jipson's HALVE peels away the layers of orderly narrative with which we try and ta
Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Memoir. FASTING FOR RAMADAN is structured as a chronicle of daily meditations, during two cycles of the 30-day rite of daytime abstinence required by Ramad
Poetry. July Open Reading Period selection. How do we see the things that show us the other things we are among? The poems of Grant Souders's first book are a conjuring. SERVICE is born in utterance,
