Small-Press Bundle: Three New Titles Every Month
For the holidays, we're offering special THREE-MONTH and TWO-MONTH trial versions of our popular subscription bundle—a perfect gift for poets and poetry lovers!
Or subscribe or purchase January's bundle on this page!
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Join Woodland Pattern's subscription program and help us make large, sustaining purchases from poetry publishers! Each month, you will receive THREE small-press poetry titles, curated by our staff, packed with love, and delivered to your home. (In addition to receiving a discount on the bundle, subscribers get free shipping!)
Sign up by December 15th to receive the January bundle described below!
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It gives us great pleasure to announce our January bundle featuring three books from three brilliant small presses: Counterpath, Krupskaya Books, and Sarabande Books!
From Counterpath we’ll send you Jose Antonio Villarán’s Open Pit (2022) an exceptional and ambitious work which “explores the role of extraction under the current capitalist accumulation model, through the specific story of the town of Morococha, located in the central Peruvian Andes, and the ways in which extraction permeates most aspects of human activity.” To quote Rodrigo Toscano about this book, “Open Pit stands as a monument to what an ardently committed materialist poetics can do, and brilliantly.”
You’ll also receive Stacy Szymaszek’s just-released Essay from Krupskaya Books, a beautiful and thoughtful series of poem-essays revolving around the poet’s work with dairy cows. As Megan Milks writes, “Szymaszek has given us a large-hearted, gorgeous, and wholly riveting meditation on aging queer life and interspecies friendship on the farm and under capitalism.”
Lastly, we’re thrilled to be sending you, just out from Sarabande Books, Katrine Øgaard Jensen’s Ancient Algorithms, an astonishing collaborative experiment in translation as writing. As Don Mee Choi writes, “Katrine Øgaard Jensen and her collaborators engage in transritual and transcreation as acts of writing—transwriting. Their varied triggers and processes are spectacular. Ancient Algorithms reveals immense possibilities of language and poetry to become fearless and unbordered.”
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Our incentive for starting this program was to offer assistance to publishers affected by Small Press Distribution's abrupt closure in spring 2024. Now in 2025, with the sudden termination of NEA awards for literary presses and magazines, the crisis for small poetry publishers in the US has increased manifold, as has our motivation to continue providing this service. You can learn more about these twin crises and get updates on how to help small presses from CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses). Thank you for helping us support the small-press ecosystem from which new voices in American poetry most frequently emerge!
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December
Christine Shan Shan Hou, A Promise (blush, 2025)
Isabel Sobral Campos, The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation (Futurepoem, 2025)
John Wieners, Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (Song Cave, 2025)
November
Roberto Harrison, Isthmus to Abya Yala (City Lights, 2024)
Lara Mimosa Montes, The Time of the Novel (Wendy’s Subway, 2025)
Liesl Ujvary, Good & Safe (World Poetry Books, 2025)
October
Aracelis Girmay, Green of All Heads (BOA Editions, 2025)
Richard Meier, A Duration, (Wave Books, 2023)
sadé powell, dontbeabitterbtch (selva oscura, 2025)
September
Courtney Bush, A Movie (Lavender Ink / Diálogos, 2025)
Cody-Rose Clevidence’s This Household of Earthly Nature (Roof Books, 2025)
Chloe Garcia Roberts’s Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology (Co·Im·Press, 2024)
August
Kimberly Alidio, Teeter (Nighboat Books, 2023)
Sylvia Jones, Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024)
Yuko Otomo, Anonymous Landscape (Lithic Press, 2019)
July
Tessa Bolsover, Crane (Black Ocean, 2025)
Jennifer Nelson, On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies (Fence, 2025)
Stephen Ratcliffe, Rocks (Cuneiform, 2020)
June
K.M. English, Wave Says (Kore Press, 2021)
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, the Telaraña Circuit (Tender Buttons Press, 2024)
Robert Kocik, WHAT (Auric Press, 2024)
May
Renee Gladman, Morelia (Solid Objects, 2019)
Jimin Seo, OSSIA (CHANGES, 2024)
Vinod Kumar Shukla’s The Treasurer of Piggy Banks (Circumference Books, 2024)
April
Matt Longabucco, Heroic Dose (Golias Books, 2022)
Zahra Patterson, Chronology (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018)
N.H. Pritchard, The Mundus (Primary Information, 2024)
March
Shanna Compton, (CREATURE SOUNDS FADE) (Black Lawrence Press, 2020)
Jordan Dunn, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (Partly Press, 2022)
Pattie McCarthy, wifthing (Apogee Press, 2021)
February
Kai Ihns, Of (The Elephants, 2024)
Vi Khi Nao, Fish Carcass (Black Sun Lit, 2022)
Ed Roberson, MPH and Other Road Poems (Verge Books, 2021)
January
Ryan Eckes, Wrong Heaven Again (Birds LLC, 2024)
Mita Mahato, Arctic Play (The 3rd Thing, 2024)
Jennifer Soong, Comeback Death (Krupskaya Books, 2024)
December
Ashna Ali, The Relativity of Living Well (Bone Bouquet, 2024)
Jed Munson, Commentary on the Birds (Rescue Press, 2023)
Nawal Nader-French, a record of how the mother’s textile became sound (Noemi Press, 2023)
November
Ahmad Almallah, Border Wisdom (Winter Editions, 2023)
Marcela Durand, To husband is to tender (Black Square Editions, 2021)
Rodrigo Quijano, An Inherent Tear (Wendy’s Subway, 2024)
October
Henry Dumas, Knees of A Natural Man (Flood Editions, 2020)
Lyn Hejinian, Positions of the Sun (Belladonna*, 2018)
Afrizal Malna, Document Shredding Museum (World Poetry Books, 2024)
September
Anaïs Duplan, I Need Music (Action Books, 2021)
Paul Killebrew, Impersonal Rainbow & The Bisexual Purge (Canarium Books, 2023)
Precious Okoyomon, But Did You Die? (Wonder, 2024)
August
최Lindsay, Transverse (Futurepoem, 2021)
Jennifer Elise Foerster, The Maybe-Bird (The Song Cave, 2022)
Alice Notley, Early Works (Fonograf Editions, 2023)
July
Safaa Fathy, Where Not to Be Born (Litmus Press, 2024)
Bhanu Kapil, Incubation: A Space for Monsters (Kelsey Street Press, 2024)
Hannah Weiner, Hannah Weiner's Open House (Kenning Editions, 2006)