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 June 15th to receive the July bundle described below!
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We’re excited to let you know about our July bundle with books from three fantastic small presses: Black Ocean, Cuneiform Press, and Fence Books.
You’ll receive Crane (Black Ocean, 2025), the just-released, entrancing new book from Tessa Bolsover. To quote Hoa Nguyen, “Crane reimagines myth in the poetics of the hinge, shifting selves, desire and loss, a lyric encounter with the limn of transformation.”
From Cuneiform Press we’ll be sending you Rocks (2020) by the inimitable Stephen Ratcliffe, a book whose spare and precise meditations, to quote Cole Swensen, “explore, with measured attention and endless affection, how the mind walks the body farther than it could ever walk itself, and makes it, in fact, walk out of itself …”
Our third title this month, from Fence Books, is the recently-published, On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies (2025) by Jennifer Nelson. Bearing Nelson’s characteristically sharp poetic intelligence, the language of this book, to borrow Jackie Wang’s description, “is—at once—chatty, baroque, feral, and capacious enough to contain ghosts, facsimile creatures, colonial illustrations, the life worlds of the intertidal zone, protest, columbarium, monsters, sixteenth-century paintings, and the perverse format of the tenure dossier.”
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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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Past Bundles
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)