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A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker's experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as "Biddle City." Through prose poems, pantoums, ballads, flattened haikus, and thematic autobiographies, Chan maps a territory of intergenerational conflict, racial alienation, and memory and forgetfulness. What's achieved is a work of play and meticulous beauty, a collection that reframes how we may understand ourselves, our histories, and the places where we are from.

From Whitney Collins, the award-winning author of Big Bad, come twenty-three new dark and derelict (and hilarious) tales about-you guessed it-love. With Ricky, Collins applies her sharp eye, black humor, and generous heart to love stories (and the stories we tell ourselves about love). Among the wacky, tacky, lovesick, and lovelorn characters are: Ilona, the misanthropic mother and unhappy fiancé who is increasingly transfixed by a rash of local shark attacks; Imogen, the sperm bank client who cultivates the love she madly desires inside herself; and Aurora Flood, the coma survivor on a mission to plant a sacred seed from the Olive Garden. Blending elements of southern gothic, speculative fiction, and horror, Ricky & Other Love Stories is political and personal, bitter and sweet: ultimately, a lot like love.

This collection follows the writer's struggle with masculinity from a small town in upstate New York to a boxing academy in Beijing. As much as it is the story of pain, it is also a journey to healing. For violence is our patrimony, but it is not our destiny. These poems challenge masculinity narratives, and master narratives in general, by reaching toward vulnerability and beauty.--Publisher.

From acclaimed fiction writer Kyle Minor emerges a collection ofessays all about disappearing. Considering a wide scope of cultural, historical,spiritual, and philosophical figures and ideas, Minor assembles a collection ofessays centered on the concept of disappearance. Considering subjects like ghosts (thinkShakespeare and The Sixth Sense), lost temples, professional erasure and strategicexile, these essays dig deep into the cultural and historical archives of our civilization. Minor's keen wit and perception ensure one thing: readers will never forget this book.

A Louisville Poets Anthology edited byLouisville native and acclaimed Horsepower author Joy Priest. Conceived in the aftermath of city-wideprotests in 2020, Once a City Said showcases the polyvocal communitiesof Louisville, Kentucky, a city celebrated for its bourbon, basketball, andhorseracing, but long fraught with racial injustice, police corruption, andsocial unrest. Priesttakes the city's narrative out of the mouths of politicians, news anchors, andpolice chiefs, and puts it into the mouths of poets. What emerges is anintimate report of a city misshapen by segregation, tourism, and ruptures inthe public trust. Featuring thirty-seven acclaimed and emerging poets-includingMitchell L. H. Douglas, Erin Keane, Ryan Ridge, and Hannah L. Drake-Once aCity Said archives the traditions and icons, the landmarks and spirits, theportraits and memories of Derby City. This publication is supported by individual donors who gave to the 2021 Fund for the Arts ArtsMatch campaign. Matching funds were made possible by Fund for the Arts in partnership with LG&E and KU Foundation.

Reckon, "Black Joy: 2022 Best of Books""Those of us who have been following her work for a while have known Reid would come flying out of the gates and, well, here is the emphatic proof.”—Laird Hunt, National Book Award finalist for ZorrieThot is a ground-breaking, fast paced, book length essay that experiments with poetry, dialogue, and memoir. At its epicenter are two competing forces. One is Chanté’s upbringing in the splendor, density, rhythms, and madness of Bronx, NY, including the murder of Chante’s neighbor, Deborah Danner, killed by a police officer during his break-in. The other is Reid’s academic life at Brown University, where she is completing a critical thesis on Toni Morrison’s book, Beloved. Its characters—Sethe, Denver, Margeret Garner—wind in and out of the conversation, as do the Medea and Narcissus of Greek myths. Thot is a thrilling cacophony, a highly original mix of genre and voice, sure to please readers in search of something startling and new.

“What magic, what beauty there is in these pages.”—John Freeman, author of Wind, TreesIn this adventurous debut lurk stories that are deep, lush, and full of wonder. While camping in the Kalahari Desert, a couple grows entranced with a starving lion on the cusp of death; meanwhile, just north of the Smokies, a young boy is held captive by a dangerous old captain who hunts dogs for sport; and off the Hawaiian coast, lovers kayak into the ocean to glimpse a tiger shark, only to find themselves in treacherous waters. The characters in these stories are headstrong and complex, and the prose is buoyant, rhythmic, and fiercely knowing. Nights from This Galaxy captures the spirit of a wild and wonderful planet, while acknowledging our shared fragility and the imminent grief that binds us all.

Kirkus Reviews, "20 Best Books to Read in January"Kirkus Reviews, "Yes, You Can Read Short Stories in Shuffle Mode"Electric Literature, "Recommended Reading”Texas Monthly, "The Best Books, Film, TV, Art & More Coming to Texas This Winter"Winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction“The stories in A New Race of Men from Heaven move elegantly between the ache of loneliness and the grace of connection, however fleeting.” —Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical CorrectionsA New Race of Men from Heaven is a collection of stories about characters who wander but are never truly lost. A lonely man on a business trip finds himself in the middle of a search party for a missing boy; a grieving widow leaves India to join family in the United States; a writer finds renewed success when an unknown imposter begins publishing under his identity. In these quiet yet deeply knowing stories of migration, power, and longing, A New Race of Men from Heaven offers us, above all else, stories of enduring love and hope.

This collection is incredible. The poetry is smart, cunning. It is wise on a cultural level, but it is also deeply personal. This all shows, too, in the recent praise Price has been receiving; ¿My Phone Autocorrects `Niggä to `Night,¿ won the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood Prize from Poetry, and it earned a spot in the 2021 Best New Poets Anthology. Price is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at Tulane University. Previously, she was an adjunct at NYU, a personal assistant to Saeed Jones, and a paid research intern at MSNBC for the Melissa Harris-Perry Show. She earned her BA and MFA at Columbia. She has been a Cave Canem Retreat Fellow, appeared in Best of the Net, and been named a finalist for the Manchester Poetry Prize. As her manuscript suggests, she and her family lived through Hurricane Katrina. We evacuated about 3 days before the storm hit, lived in Mississippi for about a month and then lived a year in Dallas. She moved back to New Orleans in 2006 but her family was homeless for about a year after and living in a hotel because our home was destroyed. This book is already a confirmed selection for Melbäs ¿Lunch and Literacy¿ program, run by Jane Wolfe in New Orleans. For this, the restaurant buys about 100 copies of the book and then gives them out to anyone who comes in that day. Readers also get to meet the author. Past featured authors have included Colson Whitehead, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Broom, Clint Smith, etc..

This is a really powerful collection packaged up as a beautiful AND quick read. It covers important and ever-timely topics, like racial injustice, history, the American Civil War. Its hybrid form is done so well; the poems fit so perfectly with the narrative that it is never jarring to slip back and forth.Lauren Haldeman lives in Iowa City, where she also completed her BA and MFA, and where she currently works as a senior editor for the University of Iowa. She is incredibly well-connected in the city and its literary web. Mission Creek is already planning to project illustrations from the book all throughout downtown Iowa City at this year¿s festival (2022).We are planning a tour with stops at Manassas National Park, Iowa City, Montreal, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Quebec City, and Toronto. Lauren has previously published a chapbook collaboration with Kiki Petrosino (Black Genealogy), in which she paired her illustrations with poems from Kiki that would eventually become part of White Blood. The two plan to do some of the east coast tour stops together. A comic excerpt from this book has appeared in Poetry, and Lauren has had other work in Tin House, Iowa Review, and elsewhere.This will be a really beautiful book. Full color. French flaps. Lauren plans to hand-draw most of the poems, as well.

"These are poems with teeth and tenderness and so much knowledge. You’d overlook their sharp, glinting beauty at your peril.”—Kathryn Nuernberger, author of The Witch of Eye and RUEThis is a book of tragicomic gurlesque word-witchery inspired by the Kate Bush cosmos. Campily glamorous, darkly funny, obsessively ekphrastic, boozily baroque, psychedelically girly & musically ecstatic, 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About the Multiverse dazzles as Karyna McGlynn's third collection.

Revisiting Magellan's voyage around the world, All Heathens explores the speaker's Filipino American identity by grappling with her relationship to her family and notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery.

Amelia Martens's prose poems sparkle with dark wit, moving from the mundane to the metaphysical with plainspoken lyricism.

Part biographic inquiry, part lyric portraiture, radio producer Shawn Wen reanimates world-renowned mime Marcel Marceau's silent art in vibrant language.

A rollicking, wide-reaching annotated soundtrack of pop stars, phone psychics, Elvis impersonators, and other marvels of the human voice.

Latest installment in our Series in Kentucky Literature. ; Labeled as an essay collection, there is really a hybrid of forms at play here; it pulls on autobiography, audio transcripts, media, legal documents, Internet comments, and short prose pieces. Stunning. ; Farmer is the Assistant Dir. of Learning and Engagement at Utah Museum of Fine Arts. She previously worked at the University of Louisville and the Speed Art Museum (also in Louisville). ; She earned her MFA from Syracuse University. ; Farmer has won numerous prizes. Roxane Gay/Gay Magazine¿s ¿Best of 2019¿ for the book¿s essay ¿Mercy Killing¿; Rebecca Solnit selected an essay for Best American Nonfiction 2019; Farmer¿s chapbook was a finalist for the Chapbook 2019 Gold Line Press contest; Ninth Letter¿s Creative Nonfiction Award 2018; Los Angeles Review Short Fiction Award 2017; Roxane Gay¿s "Excellent Small Press Books You Should Check Out.¿ January 2017. ; Her past books have landed her on ¿best of¿ lists from Buzzfeed and Entropy. ; Other works published in Gay Magazine, TriQuarterly, Gigantic, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. ; She is the author of three other books, one poetry, one a novella, and one short stories. ; Farmer is married to a recent Sarabande author (Ryan Ridge who wrote New Bad News, which came out 2020), and together they co-edit Juked. They also plan to tour together! ;Cities where she¿s previously lived (to consider for touring purposes): Louisville, Carson City (NV), Los Angeles.

Winner of the 2020 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction; Campbell has published one other book, JOURNEY INTO MOTHERHOOD: Writing Your Way to Self-Discovery. Though it was published with Riverhead in 1996, it¿s still relevant to note that this book sold more than 10k copies and earned Campbell a $20,000 advance at the time. ; Campbell¿s work is largely focused on, as Campbell puts it, ¿bodies marked by memory,¿ and several of these stories specifically look at women who are having to overcome a history of violations against their bodies. As Campbell herself writes, this is timely and aligns with the conversations of the #MeToo movement. Campbell, too, is very vocal about her own history dealing with rape and the judiciary processes that follow, and she has dedicated her working career to fighting for women¿s rights and helping women. These stories are SO important. ; Director of Ripe Fruit School of Creative Writing. ; In the past has worked for California Poets in the Schools, San Francisco Women¿s Building Collective, and San Francisco State University Creative Writing Department. ; Though she graduated from both in the 70s, she has contacts from her undergrad (Standford) and her MA (San Francisco State University). She earned her MFA in 2013 from Bennington Writing Seminars. Campbell has also participated in Tin House Summer Workshops, Bread Loaf Writer¿s Conference, Napa Valley Writing Conference, New Harmony Writer¿s Workshop, and Juniper Summer Writing Institute. ; In just the last few years, Campbell¿s stories have won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, the Mary C. Mohr Prize for Fiction, the Briar Cliff Review Fiction Award, and she has been named a finalist for prizes from Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, and Belleview Literary Review.

Composed entirely of words taken from the letters and public statements of the notorious segregationist Bull Connor, the poems in White Bull use language that was wielded in violence and oppression to reckon with the present moment. The city of Birmingham is a character too, with its suffocating heat and humidity, quarry pools, and mountain in the distance. Here, the truth comes out, like a child whispering in the midst of a political rally, ¿Summer separates us with the same trees.¿ And, ¿I thought if I repeated a word enough it would change its meaning.¿ Elizabeth Hughey holds up and examines the things handed down to us¿from patterned wing backs and chipped tea sets to family names and gender roles¿and asks if we should keep any of it or burn it all down and start again.

Tyler Barton is an OUTSTANDING literary advocate. He and his wife Erin Dorney cofounded FEAR NO LIT, a community lit organization centered on reinventing the literary event and filling gaps in writing communities. FEAR NO LIT boasts such community projects as The Submerging Writer Fellowship (https://www.fearnolit.com/fellowship), Page Match (https://www.fearnolit.com/series/pagematchseconddraft?rq=page%20match), and The Hidden Museum (https://www.fearnolit.com/t he-hidden-museum). Tyler has organized more than 50 literary events! So he is no novice in this arena and we can expect a thrilling tour from him. ; Barton has worked with journals such as Hippocampus, Blue Earth Review, The Good thunder Outreach, and he was a radio host for the KMSU Weekly Reader. ; Additionally, he received a 2019 Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts grant (https://tsbarton.com/elderlit/) for his workshops he created and offered to the elderly. Barton was able to publish a chapbook of their work called The Berries Belong to Everyone. And he plans to continue with this programming. ; Barton is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Creative Exploration (at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design). Past positions include education manager at the North Museum of Nature and Science and the conference coordinator for the Native American Literature Symposium. ; MFA from Minnesota State University, Mankato. ; Stories from this collection have been selected for 2020 Best Small Fictions, the 2020 Best Microfiction (selected by Michael Martone), as runner-up of the Kenyon Review¿s 2018 Short Fiction Contest, and as winner of The Chicago Review of Books 2017 Fall Fiction Prize (judged by Kathleen Rooney). ; Stories featured in journals like Copper Nickel, McNeese Review, Passages North, The Iowa Review, Cincinnati Review, Paper Darts, Kenyon Review, The Collagist, Gulf Coast, Split Lip, and elsewhere. ; Barton is extremely active and beloved on social media. (His post announcing his book earned almost 800 likes on Twitter!)

Early in her powerful, affecting debut, Desautels writes: "I always mention gratitude because/people like that ending."  Unflinching in its candor, this is the story of a woman with two swellings in her belly: a nascent baby, and a cancerous tumor. The poet could focus on the particulars of the medical case, using language from a traditional illness narrative. Instead she gives us the basics, then gathers up surprising and expansive material from various landscapes-the Black Hills, the prairies of Texas, the mountains, switchgrass, and, especially, the neighboring buffalo, to which she feels a profound connection. Desautels' metaphors strike home; they are counterpoints, balm to the uncertainty and grief that make us uncomfortable. The book moves elegantly from its dark beginnings to a transcendent thankfulness.  With healing lyricism, she writes: "And I imagine the white sheets as heron wings./And the whirring machines are white eggs./And the worried voices are sunlight on water."

Wright interviews a really stellar lineup and includes lots of Sarabande authors. (Some interviewees are Lia Purpura, Wendy Walters, Ander Monsen, Kimiko Hahn, Philanese Slaughter, Sejal Shah, Raven Jackson , Dorothy Allison, Rae Armantrout, Jericho Parms, Marc Gaba, Sheep Jones, and more.)Given the wide range of topics discussed, this should appeal to wide audiences (examples: artistic form, the muse, climate change, freedo, metaphor, painting, ketchup, the environment, sex and sexuality, listening, publishing, war, sensation, slavery, authority, power, zookeeping, colonialism, faith, religion, loss, ghosts ,empathy, advice columns). It seems, too, that it could be an attractive course adoption for courses on essay writing and interviewing. Some notes on Wright: She is the author of two poetry books, one poetry collaboration, and six chapbooks, and as you'll be able to see from the group she interviews, she has a lot of solid contacts in the writing world. Her last books have positive reviews in Kenyon Review, Guernica, and Essay Daily.

In her groundbreaking and most politicized collection, Kathleen Ossip takes a hard look at the U.S.A. as it now stands. She meditates on our various responses to our country¿whether ironic, infantile, righteous, or defeated. Her diction is both high and low, her tone both elegant and straightforward. The book¿s crowning achievement, its anchor, and its centerpiece is the poem ¿July.¿ In a generous fifty pages, Ossip recounts a road trip from Bemidji, MN, to Key West, FL, with her daughter riding shotgun. Inspired by images that flick across their car windows and nurtured by intimate conversation and plenty of time to think, the poem has an entertaining cinematic sweep. There are poems based on bumper stickers, the names of churches, little shops. Traveling tests her beliefs, and Ossip fully discloses her doubts and confusions. Ossip is an unconventional, mighty magician with words.

In the stories of Big Bad, the mundane meets the mysterious, and the comedic collides with the catastrophic.

This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called "witches" of the past and considers parallels to present-day questions of social justice.

This debut collection, full of natural images and fable-like storytelling, investigates the precariousness inherent to familial love, grief, and myth-making.

In Feeler, McHugh takes on the fraught subject of empathy-how much we feel, and do, for the afflicted.

Index of Haunted Houses is an investigation of longing and belonging, of haunting as a mode of living.

This book-length erasure of pages from Stephen King's Misery reimagines the novel's themes of constraint and possibility through beautiful, mixed-media poems.

In gorgeous, scrutinizing, and ever-hopeful poetry, Romanian-American poet Maya Catherine Popa offers a hymnic study of American violence.