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 October 15th to receive the November bundle described below!
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It gives us great pleasure to announce our November bundle featuring three brilliant and essential small presses: City Lights, Wendy’s Subway, and World Poetry Books!
From City Lights Publishing, we’ll send you Roberto Harrison’s entrancing Isthmus to Abya Yala (2024). We quote here from Will Alexander’s praise: “What Roberto Harrison accomplishes within these pages of Abya Yala is not some super-imposed current but fiery liquefaction that ignites transparency as alchemic kinetic.”
Just released this summer from Wendy’s Subway, you’ll receive Lara Mimosa Montes’s fantastic The Time of the Novel. We think Paul Chan’s endorsement to be a perfect description of our experience: “Spellbinding. Reads like a thriller, thinks like a philosopher, and enchants like a poet of the first order. Reality is now permanently warped because this book exists.”
Our third title this month, from World Poetry Books, is the just-published Good & Safe by Liesl Ujvary. This strange and compelling book was first published in Austria in 1977 and has been translated into English by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie now for the first time. Of the book Susan Bernofsky writes, “Reading these sardonically whimsical poems with their unsparing humor, it’s hard to believe they were written decades ago and not just this year, since they speak so directly to our current season of malaise. I laughed out loud with these fiercely translated takedowns of complacent bourgeois faith in our social institutions. Tautology rules, and Austria is everywhere.”
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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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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)