In this book of lyric, documentary, and epistolary poems published by Prairie Schooner, Susan Nguyen “sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora” in a small American town. Order DEAR DIASPORA here! #APAHeritageMonth bookshop.org/p/books/dear-d…

The train leaves without a word. Tonight, each tender valley clenches into your chest. I have been on my knees so long… Bella Zhou’s “Hu Tianbao, God of Rabbits,” featured in ACM & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/02/20/thr…

Joan Seliger Sidney’s BODY OF DIMINISHING MOTION speaks to her “experiences living with multiple sclerosis” and her “legacy as the daughter of a strong-willed Holocaust survivor.” Poetry from CavanKerry Press for your #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth: cavankerrypress.org/products/body-…

Craig Santos Perez’s HABITAT THRESHOLD “explores his ancestry as a native Pacific Islander, the ecological plight of his homeland, and his fears for the future.” Read this Omnidawn Publishing poetry collection! #APAHeritageMonth bookshop.org/p/books/habita…

Anthony Sutton’s PARTICLES OF A STRANGER LIGHT is on our reading list for #APAHeritageMonth! This Veliz Books poetry collection “employs a wide array of approaches and forms to obsessively dissect issues of memory, identity, culture, and history.” velizbooks.com/authors#/parti…

Bookmark our #APAHeritageMonth reading list for year-round recommendations from Birds, LLC, Fonograf Editions, Hub City Press, Blackwater Press, Deep Vellum, Burrow Press, WTAW Press, 53rd State Press, Wendy's Subway, @3rdthingpress & more indie publishers: clmp.org/news/a-reading…

“At the docks, after you were gone, I watched a fisherman gut a small gator gar with a serrated sandwich knife.” Catherine Niu’s “Swamp” is featured in Cincinnati Review & our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-sw…

CURB “maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States.” Nightboat Books poetry by Divya Victor for #APAHM: bookshop.org/p/books/curb-d…

Charles Valle’s debut collection focuses “on immigration, colonialism, and the death of the speaker’s infant daughter.” PROOF OF STAKE: AN ELEGY is published by Fonograf Editions & featured in our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: bookshop.org/p/books/proof-…

This Orison Books anthology “offers many entry points into geography and history, into faith and spirit, and into language and poetry.” —Julie Wan THE WORLD I LEAVE YOU: ASIAN AMERICAN POETS ON FAITH & SPIRIT is featured in our reading list for #APAHM: orisonbooks.com/product-page/t…

Celebrate #PrideMonth with us by picking new reads from our 2025 reading list, which features Neon Hemlock Press Haymarket Books ✨Sinister Wisdom✨ Anodyne Magazine LittlePuss Press futurepoem Nightboat Books Host Publications Noemi Press & more indie publishers! clmp.org/news/a-reading…

WHO KILLED BUSTER SPARKLE? from Unsolicited Press is on our reading list for #PrideMonth! In John W. Bateman’s novel, “When a drag queen named Peaches meets Buster, a Mississippi ghost with partial amnesia, questions of past, present, and future surface.” unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/whokill…

José Angel Araguz’s RUIN & WANT contains “a series of gripping, episodic prose pieces centered on an illicit relationship between a student and his high school English teacher.” Read a memoir from SundressPublications this #PrideMonth: sundress-publications.square.site/product/ruin-w…

She found me at a really young age. Opening myself like a fragile book, I welcomed her. Dhayana Alejandrina’s poem “Sexuality” is published in Wellspringwords & featured on our #PrideMonth reading list: wellspringwords.love/narratives/sex…

Stephanie Adams-Santos’s DREAM OF XIBALBA “draws the reader into a dreamworld where the barrier between life and death grows porous, populated by ancestors and spirits.” An Orison Books poetry collection for #PrideMonth: orisonbooks.com/product-page/d…

It’s not too late to browse our May roundup for books newly out from Sandorf Passage @sandorfpassage.bsky.social, Bull City Press 🐂, @PoetosePress, Wendy's Subway, WWPH The Washington Writers' Publishing House, Restless Books, Slant Books, BOA Editions, artepublico, Contra Mundum Press, and more indie presses: clmp.org/news/books-lau…

This #PrideMonth, read ANMLY :: Anomaly :: Anomalous Press’s folio on video games, guest edited by Summer Farah! “A Soft Reset” features nine queer writers of color including Harriette Chan, Stephanie Dinsae, Gyasi Hall, Nancy Huang, Marlin M. Jenkins, Felix Lecocq, and more: anmly.org/ap37-a-soft-re…

Vivian Blaxell’s WORTHY OF THE EVENT is on our reading list for #PrideMonth! In this seven-part essay from LittlePuss Press, Blaxell “takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history ... to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind.” littlepuss.net/shop/p/wote

Samiya Bashir’s new collection I HOPE THIS HELPS “reflects on the excruciating metamorphosis of an artist, ‘a twinkle-textured disco-ball Jenga set’ constrained and shaped by the limits of our reality.” Read genre-bending poetry from Nightboat Books for #PrideMonth:

Melanie Bell’s CHASING HARMONY (Read Furiously) is on our #PrideMonth reading list! In this YA novel, piano prodigy Anna Stern “struggles to find her identity without the soundtrack of sonatas and concertos.” readfuriously.com/products/chasi…