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 January 15th to receive the February bundle described below!
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We’re truly thrilled to present our February bundle with titles from three more fantastic small presses: Black Sun Lit; The Elephants; and Verge Books.
From Black Sun Lit you’ll receive Vi Khi Nao’s Fish Carcass (2022), wonderfully subtitled “Victuals, Spasms, Corporality.” To quote the press’s description: “At once polyvocal and joyous, terrified and terrifying, the poems in Fish Carcass register expression across multiple thresholds, suturing physical and metaphysical, worldly and otherworldly, human and nonhuman domains to create a cornucopia of potentialities as sprawling as life itself.”
From The Elephants you’ll receive the just-released, Of (2024) by Kai Ihns. Funny, strange, and brilliant, the surprising angles of meaning in these poems turn and turn but don’t take turns in their simultaneities! We’re really excited for you to encounter it!
Our third February title, from the wonderful Verge Books, is Ed Roberson’s MPH and Other Road Poems (2021). The compelling context for this book of poems is described in the publisher’s official description: “In 2015, while, in his words, ‘dismantling my house in New Jersey and preparing it for sale,’ Ed Roberson discovered in some envelopes in his attic a manuscript he thought lost, drawn from the experiences of the summer of 1970, when the poet, along with two friends, rode cross-country from Pittsburgh to San Francisco and back on two BMW motorcycles. The recovery of this manuscript—over forty years later—alerted Roberson to the fact that he had been relating to its material ever since, yielding for him work that ‘calls across the span of a lifetime.’ MPH is Roberson’s epic, serial road poem, decades in the making, stamped with and guided by the talisman of its title.”
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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
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)