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 April 15th to receive the May bundle described below!
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We’re excited to let you know about our May bundle with wonderful books from three stellar US small presses: CHANGES; Circumference Books; and Solid Objects.
You’ll receive OSSIA (CHANGES, 2024), the debut collection from poet Jimin Seo, a series of “intricate, polyvocal poems … rich with grief and radiant with the vivid charisma of specific people, specific love,” to quote the press description!
From Circumference Books, a small press which emerged from the long-running Circumference Magazine and which publishes poetry in translation, we’ll be sending you Vinod Kumar Shukla’s The Treasurer of Piggy Banks, translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. The volume is a selection of poems from books spanning over 50 years of this accomplished Indian poet’s output.
Our third title this month, from Solid Objects, is Renee Gladman’s Morelia. If you’ve yet to encounter Renee Gladman’s genre-crossing writing, you’re in for a real treat! As Amina Cain asks about Morelia, “How does Renee Gladman manage to make language different from itself? How does she make space different from itself too?”
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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
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)