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 August 15th to receive the September bundle described below!
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We’re thrilled to announce our September bundle with books from yet more brilliant small presses: Co·Im·Press, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, and Roof Books!
We’ll be sending Chloe Garcia Roberts’s Fire Eater: A Translator’s Theology (Co·Im·Press, 2024), an astonishing book of hybrid poem-essays of which Fanny Howe (of blessed memory) writes, “There is a light in this book, the light of the spiritual explorer who ventures into the darkness of her origins accompanied only by her baby, and by her will to know what living is.”
You’ll also receive A Movie (2025) by Courtney Bush from Lavender Ink / Diálogos , a book-length poem we found difficult not to compulsively consume! Rainer Diana Hamiltion writes, “If I were to adapt this book for the screen, her syntax would be the main character—played by, say, Kate Winslet—honoring the source material by hiding a dark secret behind its beauty and directness.”
Our third title this month, from Roof Books, is the amazing Cody-Rose Clevidence’s soon to be released, This Household of Earthly Nature. We quote here a sentence from Brian Teare’s description of the book: “Part daybook documenting ‘the sensed experience of the shared world’ and part valediction of the ‘sense in which the earth itself is our shared technology,’ this sprawling verse essay posits an ensouled world, an oikos that consists of the ‘connectedness of all things.’”
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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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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)