Congratulations to the CLMP members publishing new books in May—including Codhill Press, UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE, Fernwood Press, Book*hug Press, SFWP, Tupelo Press, the song cave, Warbler Press, Akashic Books, Red Hen Press, Archipelago Books, Regal House Publishing & more! clmp.org/news/books-lau…

CONGRATS JULIANA 🌟 The 2023 short story collection YOU WERE WATCHING BY THE SAND by Juliana Lamy has been named a Finalist for CLMP's 2024 Firecracker Awards.

Read more about this exciting news, and all the other amazing finalists at this link: clmp.org/press-center/c…

OCULUS (Graywolf Press) by Sally Wen Mao “explores exile not just as a matter of distance and displacement, but as a migration through time and a reckoning with technology.”

Poetry from our #APAHM list: graywolfpress.org/books/oculus

In the psych ward, you gasp
with every waking, gulping breaths

through a stiff neck and bruised senses
of self….

—Isaac Pickell’s “In the psych ward, you gasp” in 🇵🇸 manywor(l)ds :: place | ISSUE 4 OUT NOW and our #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth list: manyworlds.place/issue-2/isaac-…

Submit to the RockPaperPoem Poetry Prize by May 31! Send 1 to 3 poems. The winners receive cash prizes and publication: clmp.org/members/open-s…

Renee Macalino Rutledge’s THE HOUR OF DAYDREAMS (Forest Avenue Press) “is a stirring and haunting exploration of marriage, culture, and gender roles.”

A debut novel from our #APAHM list: bookshop.org/p/books/the-ho…

In ANALOG POET BLUES (Black Lawrence Press), Yeva Johnson “turns her unique gaze to the activities of daily life and all of its institutions, ideas, and relationships as she navigates the currents of her world.”

Poetry for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth : blacklawrencepress.com/books/analog-p…

Submit your pitches, reviews, craft essays, and author features to Philly Poetry Chapbook Review (subs/queries open), which wants to celebrate the chapbook form through its journal! Both reviewers and interested publishers/authors can submit for free: clmp.org/members/open-s…

We're thrilled for this beautiful book with quite possibly the best cover of the decade. Congrats Patrícia Melo and Sophie Lewis !!

What
Is today?
Does it matter?

Waking
Up coughing
In a panic

“Grocery Store Lockdown” by Russell Reza-Khaliq Gonzaga, from The Fabulist Magazine and our #APAHM reading list: fabulistmagazine.com/grocery-store-…

This #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth , read “To Be a Jewish Dyke in the 21st Century,” a ✨Sinister Wisdom✨ issue which asks, “What are Jewish lesbians thinking about? Writing about? Making art about now, here in the first two decades of the 21st century?” sinisterwisdom.org/SW119

'Our street in Osaka was still unpaved. The dust stirred up when the donkey strolled past, wheeling its three-layered glass case, displaying freshly baked bread….'

“The Kanzaki River” by Yuko Iida Frost, from Apple Valley Review and our #APAHM reading list: applevalleyreview.org/fall-2022/yuko…

Experimenting with queer myth-making and decolonial horror, Kiley McLaughlin’s MAW APPEARS IN THE FOLLOWING FORMS (Gold Line Press) asks “what it means to inhabit a body...”

Fiction from our #APAHM list: dornsife.usc.edu/goldlinepress/…

A black widow tends two webs in different corners of my bathroom.

—Elizabeth Jacobson’s “For Whom Do You Bathe and Make Yourself Beautiful?” in SWWIMmiami and our #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth list: swwim.org/swwimeveryday/…

This week, be sure to pick some new reads from our #APAHeritageMonth reading list, which features indie presses Alan Squire Publishing, Burrow Press, Vine Leaves, Restless Books, SFWP, Lanternfish Press, Hub City Press, and more! clmp.org/news/a-reading…

Michael Leong’s CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE “redefines the space-time of the page as a furnace of pure imagination, where the cadaver of modernist poetics is smelted with black humor.”

From Black Square Editions and our #APAHM list: blacksquareeditions.org/product-page/c…

Submit your poems to Kinsman Quarterly by May 31 to be considered for their upcoming collection, SLAM! Winners receive up to $300 in cash prizes and publication. Learn more: clmp.org/members/open-s…

Congratulations to Whiting grantees LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and ☀️ 🌤 ⛅️ 🌥 on being named finalists for CLMP's 2024 Firecracker Award in Poetry! buff.ly/42MYaqE

In END OF THE BUSINESS DAY (Hanging Loose Press), Robert Hershon “writes about aging in this totally disarming way,” infusing humor into his poetry to put you “right up into living experience as a moving foreground.”

Poetry for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth : hangingloosepress.com/book/end-of-th…

David Harris Ebenbach’s INTO THE WILDERNESS: PARENTING STORIES (WWPH The Washington Writers Publishing House) “takes us deep into the… messy confusion and terror and unfathomable love that make up that shaky state we call parenthood.”

Fiction from our #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth list: bookshop.org/a/500/97809318…