Bay Area readers—this one’s for you! 🌟 Don’t miss acclaimed poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra, author of MOTHERSALT, as the featured reader at the Burlingame Public Library Poetry Open Mic on June 11 at 6 PM. 📍 Full event details at buff.ly/4xLuPsS

🎉 Exciting news! AUTOBIOMYTHOGRAPHY OF by @mrafalomo has won the 2025 Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing! 💙 📖 Out Sept 2024 from Alice James Books Huge thanks to the MWPA! #MaineLiteraryAwards #AliceJamesBooks

I am so honored 🙌🏾✨

FREELAND by Leigh Sugar is out today from Alice James 🖤🤍 A fierce, inventive debut tracing a love across prison walls and the systems of mass incarceration. Poems on race, memory, mental illness, and freedom. “Freeland is a vibrant conjuring of a kinder, wiser world.” —Idra

9 months of Autobiomythography of being in the world. Thank you dearly, dear readers. Please share with me your favorite moment, line, image, poem and/or a picture of you with the book 🙏🏾

Mary Helen Callier 💙 “…and this is like falling in love.” from WHEN THE HORSES

Esther Lin’s essay, “I Was Undocumented for 21 Years,” is now in TIME Magazine. Her story of living without status from age 4 to 27 arrives at a crucial moment. Esther is the author of COLD THIEF PLACE, published by AJB in March 💛 📰 buff.ly/F7vc223

Grateful for the early love for Leigh Sugar’s FREELAND this week: ✨ Electric Literature interview on love, prison & poetry buff.ly/T6ZFunM ⭐ Bear Review calls it “a work of obsession & careful analysis” buff.ly/AgcCkvj 📝 Philly Poetry Chapbook Review (subs/queries open) shares “Ars Poetica” +

Thrilled to welcome 🔭Rosebud Ben-Oni 🚀 back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌 Expansive poems on memory, theory & time. 🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc

Look who’s in Poets & Writers! 🎉 Honored to see Leigh Sugar’s FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work. More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫

"I hear what we are meant for outside this room." #TodaysPoem #poetry Here by Jean Valentine from Light Me Down - The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (2024 Alice James Books) tinyurl.com/dex2wank

#BefriendaBook to support 1 of 11 upcoming AJB titles by funding editorial, production, or promotion 📚 Each donation enters you to win signed copies of all 11 books — a shelf of poetry from debut and award-winning voices! Give now → bit.ly/BefriendaBook

Leigh Sugar's essay "If and Abolition" is up today The Adroit Journal. Leigh's new book is FREELAND, just out from Alice James Books. theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/01/if-…

Leigh Sugar’s debut poetry collection “dramatizes what it’s like to stand on the outside looking in ... to live within a love confined by the state.” —Edward Hirsch FREELAND (Alice James Books) is on our reading list for #DisabilityPrideMonth: alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/free…

Poet Esther Lin discusses how she drew from tales, texts, and oral family history in writing "Cold Thief Place" (Alice James Books), which explores the fear and instability of growing up in the U.S. as an undocumented child. New interview by Tiffany Troy: raintaxi.com/one-dreams-of-…

SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein is on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list! This poetry collection from Alice James Books is “a book of 21st century transits … towards the culture and language of Russia, out of one gender and into another.” alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/sain…

“My petitioner is interested in sex. / His distinguishing feature is a hibiscus tattoo. / My petitioner’s mother dislikes me. / Her son would never marry someone like me.” —Esther Lin, “Ms. L— Describe Your Petitioner” hyperallergic Alice James Books hyperallergic.com/536048/two-poe…

I Don’t Want To Be Understood by ⁦Jennifer Espinoza⁩ ⁦Alice James Books⁩ #poetry #transpoetry

Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by Leigh Sugar, with readings by Ally Ang & Shelby Handler. ✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby 📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq #SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse