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Alice James Books is an independent poetry press dedicated to publishing books that matter by poets who inspire.
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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



"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


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

