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We're counting down until the big reveal at the awards ceremony this June! Fingers crossed for our 2025 @ForewordReviews INDIES Finalists Kevin Prufer (SLEEPAWAY) and Amit Majmudar (THE GREAT GAME). 🎉🎉🎉

A "portrait of the failings of the American Dream made more complicated by the old intersections of race, gender, & class, [the #novel is] about the dignity of struggling through indignity & the people who make it all worth it." DEFIANT ACTS reviewed!🎉📚 chicagoreader.com/books/book-rev…

New work from Acre poet T.R. Hummer (AFTER THE AFTERLIFE) at Academy of American Poets! 🎉🎉🎉

"Their titillation made me strong. / The more they talked, the taller I became: / first, seven feet, then twelve..." Today at Dave! Acre poet Jenna Le (MANATEE LAGOON)! 🎉🎉🎉 versedaily.org/2025/thepoison…

We're glad to share a special feature today, "A Heartbeat in a Cemetery in Tennessee," a poem by Kimberly Reyes. Think: intimacy in a graveyard, interconnected trees, cicadas . . . Link in first comment:

Now up at NVR, Maryann Corbett reviews The Great Game: Essays on Poetics (Acre Books) by Amit Majmudar. "The other great sources of poetry that Majmudar insists on are two that some may think of as contradictory: science and religion."

Applause applause to Acre poet Jose Hernandez Diaz! 🎉🎉🎉

In her third poetry collection, Jenna Le “sheds light on the experience of being the daughter of Vietnamese refugees in today’s sometimes tense and hostile America.” MANATEE LAGOON (Acre Books) is featured in our #APAHeritageMonth reading list: acre-books.com/titles/manatee…

"My mother kept in the house, as pets, not only smaller feral and wolfish creatures and cats but also a large full-grown lion . . ." This week's miCRo is a tight and powerful story by Nandini Bhattacharya about a lion and its violent transgressions. Link in first comment:

Find lots of brand-new indie literature in our May roundup, featuring Akashic Books, WTAW Press, Red Hen Press, Catalyst Press, Graywolf Press, Hub City Press, CavanKerry Press, Small Harbor Publishing, Noemi Press, Arrowsmith Press, Acre Books & more presses! clmp.org/news/books-lau…

Here’s the official announcement for the Julie Suk award finalists longlist. Honored to be here alongside some of my favorites and friends and colleagues as well. My thx to Jacar Press Jacar Press and my publisher at Acre Books, University of Cincinnati English department.

Congrats to James Stewart III on the publication of DEFIANT ACTS! “Chicago is a forge for literary realism. For starters, Dreiser, Farrell, Brooks, Algren, Wright—a fierce tradition that James Stewart III extends with his debut #novel.” (Stuart Dybek) 🎉📚 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Moshe Zvi Marvit’s NOTHING VAST (Acre Books) is on our #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: This novel is a “sweeping multigenerational tale” that “complicates traditional narratives as it follows two families—one Moroccan, one Polish.” acre-books.com/titles/nothing…

Congrats to Acre #poet C.T. Salazar , who has been named a 2025 State Fellow for Literary Arts (Mississippi)! 🎉🎉🎉 southarts.org/news/south-art…

Join us this Sunday, June 1 at 7pm EST/6pm CST/4pm PST for the launch of issue 22.1, hosted by Poetry Editor-in-Residence Erica Dawson and Associate Editor Andy Sia! Zoom registration is open now, or stream the event on Facebook, YouTube, or Instagram Live.

I wrote about Martha Silano’s “Self-Elegies,” bumbleberry pie, & what copying the poem made me see in it. Thanks for reading & thinking about this poem with me. maureenlangloss.com/may-i-hover-li…

Congrats to Acre author Kevin Prufer (SLEEPAWAY) for being named the 2026 Texas Poet Laureate! 🎉🎉🎉 arts.texas.gov/kevin-prufer/

The next installment of our series on copyediting from @lisaampleman, this time on our practices and how we make choices as we edit: the Five C's, campfires, and more. Link in first comment.

Browse & bookmark our #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth list, featuring Half Mystic Black Ocean Red Hen Press Tupelo Press New Vessel Press Dorothy, a publishing project Regal House Publishing Three Rooms Press: Diversity, Dada, Punk, Passion Frayed Edge Press Acre Books Woodhall Press & more publishers! clmp.org/news/a-reading…