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 September 15th to receive the October bundle described below!
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It gives us great pleasure to announce to you our October bundle featuring three absolutely stellar small presses: BOA Editions, selva oscura press, and Wave Books!
From BOA Editions, you’ll receive Aracelis Girmay’s soon-to-be-released, Green of All Heads. About the book, m. nourbeSe philip writes, “Precipitated by the unexpected transition of her father to the realm of the Ancestors, the poet Aracelis Girmay decodes the Great Code that is poetry to bring to the ‘smallest bone of (our) ear’ the single memory that is love, fecund in its singularity.”
We’re truly thrilled to be sending you, from selva oscura press, sadé powell’s book of visually arresting poems, dontbeabitterbtch (2025). This book, to quote the publisher’s description, “experiments with concrete poetry as a practice of black feminist poethics … layer[ing] scanned typewriter poems with monoprints that conceal and defer, tracing interiority through text and image.”
Our third title this month, from Wave Books, is Richard Meier’s A Duration (2023), the first of a brilliant and moving two-part book series (A Companion was released this past Spring). As the publisher aptly describes it, “[i]n the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodies—animal, plant, mineral, and word bodies—that are injured and heal, that die and continue in new forms, playing new roles.”
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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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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)