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 July 15th to receive the August bundle described below!
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We’re so excited to announce our August subscription bundle featuring books from three brilliant small-presses: Litmus Press, Omnidawn Publishing, and Verge Books!
From Litmus Press, we’ll send you Yes, I Am A Destroyer (2025) by the UK-based writer, Mira Mattar. First published in the UK in 2020, this book presents an exhilirating cascade of experimental prose. China Miéville calls it, “an astonishing, contrary, visionary rush – insightful, poignant and ecstatic,” and Lisa Robertson writes, “this glorious tract ends with a call for the anarchical vigour of the animal body we share. Read it and flourish. You will perhaps be invoiced.”
You’ll also receive, from the longstanding and brilliant Omnidawn, José Felipe Alvergue’s just-released, en el norte/soy del sur. To quote the publisher’s official description, en el norte/soy del sur “is an exploration into the limits of the American sonnet, one that seeks to establish a stable sense of place, while opening vistas at each turn. Stitching together multiple sonnets into what he calls “sonnet essays,” Alvergue rides their turns—or “voltas”—that are guided by memories and photographs of his family’s migratory history between El Salvador and the United States.” Diego Báez in a recent Booklist starred review has called the book “a true work of creative and critical genius.”
Lastly, from Verge Books, producing beautifully designed poetry books out of Chicago, we’ll send you the exciting republication of Armand Schwerner’s classic experimental long-poem, The Tablets (2026). “Written over the course of decades, The Tablets, are an imagined trove of Assyriological texts that Armand Schwerner used to explore the nature of translation, interpretation, and the way language generates meaning.” The new edition also includes a significant selection of Schwerner’s other translations and poems.
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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 2026, 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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July
David Grundy & Candace Hill-Montgomery’s Abstractive (FOBW, 2026)
Kylan Rice’s Name and Earth (Bench Editions, 2026)
Said Shaye’s Are You Borg Now? (Noemi Press, 2025)
June
Lotte L.S.’s Ends: ‘selected poems’ (Auric Press, 2025)
Gina Myers’s Works & Days (Radiator Press, 2025)
Serena Solin’s A Barer Sky (Winter Editions, 2026)
May
Sahar Khraibani’s Anatomy of a Refusal (1080 Press, 2025)
Ken Taylor’s 57 Wyomings (Black Square Editions, 2025)
Sandra Doller’s Not Now Now (Rescue Press, 2025)
April
Elvira Hernández’s Bodies Found in Various Places / Cuerpos encontrados en varias partes (Cardboard House Press, 2025)
Eileen Myles’s Bird Watching and Their First Three Books of Poetry (Fonograf Editions, 2026)
Es Lv’s Footprints (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2025)
March
Dao Strom’s Yellow Songs / Tender Revolutions (The 3rd Thing, 2025)
February
Kendra Sullivan’s Zero Point Dream Poems (Doublecross, 2023)
Fanny Howe's The Silver Age (The Economy Press, 2025)
Ryan Skrabalak’s Assembled Climate (Oxeye Press, 2026)
Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz's máquina de escribir (The Year, 2025)
January
Jose Antonio Villarán, Open Pit (Counterpath, 2022)
Stacy Szymaszek, Essay (Krupskaya Books, 2025)
Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Ancient Algorithms (Sarabande, 2025)
December
Christine Shan Shan Hou, A Promise (blush, 2025)
Isabel Sobral Campos, The Optogram of the Mind is a Carnation (Futurepoem, 2025)
John Wieners, Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (Song Cave, 2025)
November
Roberto Harrison, Isthmus to Abya Yala (City Lights, 2024)
Lara Mimosa Montes, The Time of the Novel (Wendy’s Subway, 2025)
Liesl Ujvary, Good & Safe (World Poetry Books, 2025)
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)