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 October 15th to receive the November bundle described below!
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Our November bundle features titles from three vital small presses: Black Square Editions, Wendy’s Subway, and Winter Editions.
From Black Square Editions you’ll receive Marcela Durand’s hypnotic and meditative To husband is to tender (2021): “to husband is to tender / and like so many words that meaning / has been obscured and lost and obscured and lost— / I write this out of grief in current present times / in current times very present / in present times current but going backward.”
Also included in this month’s bundle, An Inherent Tear (Wendy’s Subway, 2024), the first book translated into English by the Peruvian poet Rodrigo Quijano. Written in 1998, the 14-part eponymous poem which makes up most of this volume is a mesmerizing and haunting work suffused in political urgency.
Our third November title is Border Wisdom (Winter Editions, 2023), the second collection of the Palestinian poet Ahmad Almallah, a book which brilliantly questions itself as it moves through the linguistic and temporal gaps of a dispersed existence marked by state violence.
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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
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)