Small-Press Bundle: Three New Titles Every Month
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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We’re truly thrilled to present our January bundle with new titles from three brilliant and essential small presses: Birds, LLC; Krupskaya Books; and The 3rd Thing.
From Birds, LLC you’ll receive Ryan Eckes’s just-released Wrong Heaven Again, a fierce collection of poems aimed right at the conditions we struggle with. About the book Anne Boyer writes, “Ryan Eckes is Brecht, probably, or better, deploying his poetry of crude thinking (plumpes denken) against the rancid confections of the present order. These poems tell the truth.”
From Krupskaya Books, who’ve been publishing astonishing poetry titles since 1999, you’ll receive Jennifer Soong’s Comeback Death (2024). It’s a book of remarkable serious complexity and clarity which, as Thom Donovan notes, works through the question of “how to reorganize the (negative) affects structuring intersubjectivity and thus conditioning our capacity to act in a common interest among others.”
Our third January title is Mita Mahato’s recently-released, Arctic Play (The 3rd Thing, 2024), a beautiful and difficult to categorize book “on which,” to cite Bianca Stone, “the topography of language itself is mapped, contained, ordered, assembled—just as it simultaneously is fragmented, enjambed, disjointed, and undone.”
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Our incentive for starting this program is to offer assistance to publishers affected by Small Press Distribution's recent and sudden closure. You can learn more about the crisis 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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Past Bundles
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)
Marcel 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)