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!)
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 March 15th to receive the April bundle described below!
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We’re thrilled to announce our April subscription bundle featuring books from three fantastic small-presses: Cardboard House Press, Fonograf Editions, and Ugly Duckling Presse.
From Cardboard House Press, a small press “dedicated to the creation of Spanish-English bilingual spaces” we will send you Bodies Found in Various Places / Cuerpos encontrados en varias partes (2025), a selection of work from the Chilean poet Elvira Hernández translated by Daniel Borzutsky and Alec Schumacher. To quote Cecilia Vicuña, “In Elvira Hernández’s poetry, each line restores the right of words to speak. Each word becomes a healer, a prayer for a wounded, enslaved humanity forced to obey the rule of profit over life.”
From Fonograf Editions you’ll receive the soon-to-be-released and much-anticipated Bird Watching and Their First Three Books of Poetry by Eileen Myles. Collecting the previously unpublished “Bird Watching” (1978) with Myles’s hard-to-find first three books, this volume “contains a critical foreword by poet and scholar Rosa Campbell, along with a preface by Eileen Myles contextualizing the book within our contemporary moment.”
Lastly, from Ugly Duckling Presse, you’ll receive Es Lv’s Footprints, a brilliant and expansive book of poems. To give you a sense impression, I’ll cite Saretta Morgan’s blurb in full: “From their perfect adjectives and positioning of silence, the images in Es Lv's footprints cohere into gentle assertions—language moves forward (only) by way of all that’s left unsaid; in the morning it is history, not light, that spreads across the earth’s surface; history by which we recognize the sky at night—so clear and clearly experienced that each proposition feels not 'comprehensible' to me, but called up from the core of a memory."
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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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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)