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 May 15th to receive the June bundle described below!
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We’re excited to let you know about our June bundle with books from three amazing small presses: Auric Press, Kore Press, and Tender Buttons Press.
You’ll receive WHAT (Auric Press, 2024), the recent book of poems by Brooklyn-based poet, prosodist, trans-disciplinary essayist, teacher, artist and designer/builder Robert Kocik. It’s a brilliant book which offers, through Kocik’s highly developed practice of prosody, a renewed sense of language as medicine, which shows us that “language as we know it is derived // from language we can’t conceive of.”
From Kore Press we’ll be sending you K.M. English’s Wave Says (2021). Drawing on the actuality and figurality of the wave as its subject, the book’s “gorgeous lines,” to quote Kazim Ali, “unravel like water, a wave as a motion, lines of a poem, individual poems in a book, not precisely separate from one another but manifestations of momentum.”
Our third title this month, from Tender Buttons Press, is the Telaraña Circuit (2024) by Mexico City-based poet Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola. In this bilingual and intermedial book, to quote Mónica de la Torre, “the poem manifests in an astounding array of media and may take the form of pulsating, handwritten notations; heirloom archeological illustrations; and wordless, faded slides. Behold the celebration of the mind’s ability to perceive the infinite interrelations between the animate and inanimate realms, the vibrations resulting from the friction between the two, and their convergence onto printed matter.”
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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
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)