Congratulations to AJB author Kaveh Akbar, who is a Guggenheim Poetry Fellow alongside Jos Charles, Vievee Francis, and Tracy K. Smith, to name just a few!

📢 Did you know you can preorder your copy of Kevin Goodan’s IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED for just $15 during #NationalPoetryMonth ? Learn more about the collection that left Camille Dungy “raptured” and “hungry for each new page” at bit.ly/In-the-Days

'Sometimes poems fall out of the nest and find their wings—and never in a way I expect.' —Katie Farris

Katie Farris's new memoir-in-poems, STANDING IN THE FOREST OF BEING ALIVE (@AliceJamesBooks), explores love in the midst of enduring illness.

bombmagazine.org/articles/katie…

We're excited to share that the AJB family is expanding! Please join us in welcoming @kellygracethoma to the press. Kelly's collection, FUTURE TENSE, will be published in October of 2026. Welcome, welcome, Kelly!
To learn more and preorder, visit bit.ly/4asFYGl 🌟

Deepest congratulations to AJB’s Taylor Johnson 💛

Pittsburgh! We hope you head out to hear Willie Lee Kinard III read from ORDERS OF SERVICE on April 26 at 7pm. Can't make it in person? Livestream registration: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Eid Mubarak! my offering to you today: I recommend seven new & forthcoming poetry collections that transform the personal into portal for Electric Literature ☄️

featuring Saba Keramati Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة Joshua Garcia Diana Khoi Nguyen & Cindy Juyoung Ok Tracy Fuad 🍉 & more—

electricliterature.com/7-poetry-colle…

Thank you for the love for Ina Darling's FEAST and Sarah Ghazal Ali's THEOPHANIES 🥰

y’all wait until you see the cover omg 😍

thank you for recommending Theophanies in such great company Brooklyn Public Library 💫🌼

'...reader and writer must match pace, and in a sense, the writer’s pace remains in suspension until the reader comes along and reactivates it.'

Love this conversation between Soham Patel & forthcoming VEER author Cole Swensen for Georgia Review!

A meaningful moment for me as poetry editor Los Angeles Review of Books to meditate on Jean Valentine personally while reviewing her posthumous collected Light Me Down. If you’re looking for silence in your poetry or poetry in your silence ✨🤍 lareviewofbooks.org/article/draw-t…

'While we can usually assume that the voice goes out with the body, after reading Light Me Down, I can say with nervy, embodied delight, 'I don’t know.''—Elizabeth Metzger on LIGHT ME DOWN for Los Angeles Review of Books 💛 Read more 👇 lareviewofbooks.org/article/draw-t…

“I briefly believed, his body
above me an eclipse,
a spectacle I’d been
warned not to watch.”

THEOPHANIES by Sarah Ghazal Ali Alice James Books arrived today and it’s gorgeous! Get your paws on your own copy: alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/theo…

We are 😍 to see both Taylor Johnson AND Jean Valentine (whose collection LIGHT ME DOWN: NEW AND COLLECTED is out tomorrow) on this list of poetry recs from Malik at Loyalty Bookstores! bookshop.org/lists/malik-s-…

PSA: Donald Revell’s forthcoming CANANDAIGUA is currently on sale for just $15 as part of AJB’s annual Friends & Family Sale! @publisherswkly calls these poems “intellectual and precise.” Preorder now at bit.ly/CANANDAIGUA 🍃

Way ahead of you. Via Boston Review, it's the first piece proper in my book, ORDERS OF SERVICE. Shoutout to Sister Sonia. Happy National Poetry Month ✨
Buy ORDERS now: bit.ly/kinardorders v

“Breath entering, leaving the leaf,”

-Jean Valentine, Light Me Down: New & Collected Poems (Alice James Books) …n-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/valen…

We’re excited to announce a new series established in honor of beloved poet Jean Valentine. The Jean Valentine series will publish books by mid-career, women-identifying poets, starting with Cole Swensen’s VEER in May 2026! Learn more at bit.ly/3xAsLg1 💛📚