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  • Moon is Almost Full
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    Moon is almost full

    Chana Bloch’s The Moon is Almost Full focuses frankly and tenderly on the themes of aging and death. In her final collection, Bloch doesn’t shy away from the dark places, but she is a trustworthy guide. These remarkable poems remind the reader to take joy where we can find it and relish the every...

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  • Magdalena Is Brighter than You Think
    Magdalena Is Brighter than You Think

    Magdalena is brighter than you think

    "With care and attention to its brilliantly complicated and kaleidoscopic characters, Magdalena Is Brighter Than You Think is a breathtaking collection that is rooted in place, people, and the full scope of who you are and who you get to be. Exploring queerness, gender, poverty, generational trau...

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  • REDWORK
    REDWORK

    Redwork

    Laurie Ann Guerrero’s expansive fifth poetry collection, REDWORK, is a meditation on a woman’s role in work and family, ancestral wisdom, and the subversive nature of female art. Interwoven with eight images of the author’s intricate redwork embroidery—striking red thread on light textiles—these ...

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  • Queer Nature
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    Queer nature

    An anthology of nature poetry by queer authors celebrating the natural world and rethinking the nature poem. Spanning three centuries, this anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers fro...

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  • Swimming in the Rain
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    Swimming in the rain

    Chana Bloch’s collection of new and selected poetry is a retrospective view on Jewish texts and traditions, illness, death, gender, memory, and family life.

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  • Seed Celestial
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    Seed celestial

    Seed Celestial is the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Eileen Myles; the poems in this debut collection consider societal issues, mythological origins, and the capacity for hope in the face of uncertain futures.   Bringing together contemporary issues of climate cha...

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  • Blue Mistaken for Sky
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    Blue mistaken for sky

    Award-winning author Andrea Hollander’s fifth full-length poetry collection explores a mature woman’s life after divorce. The poems are unselfconscious, and they detail with grace the pleasures and difficulties of aging, and the evolution of personal relationships through a life.

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  • Near Strangers
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    Near strangers

    Featured in Electric Lit's "15 Small Press Books You Should Be Reading This Winter" Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Fiction Prize, Near Strangers is a collection of eight tightly crafted short stories that follow unexpected connections and tell of queer life in America.Award-winning author Maria...

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  • Practicing the Truth
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    Practicing the truth

    Ellery Akers’ collection of lyric poems celebrates our everyday world while not glossing over the pain suffered by those who inhabit it. These beautifully crafted, quiet poems are simultaneously powerful to read.

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  • Les Portes
    Les Portes

    Les portes

    Winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich, and named a "Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026” by Ms. Magazine, Les Portes traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. Unfolding in three movements—Le Début, Le Passé, and L...

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  • Moons of August
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    Moons of august

    Winner of the 2013 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye, Danusha Laméris's stunning debut collection explores family culture, motherhood, loss, and memory.

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  • Further News of Defeat
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    Further news of defeat

    Michael X. Wang’s award-winning debut collection of short stories interrogates personal and political events set against the backdrop of China that are both real and perceived, imagined, and speculative. Wang plunges us into the fictional Chinese village of Xinchun and beyond to explore themes of...

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  • Darling Nova
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    Darling nova

    Winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize, Melissa Cundieff's debut collection is musical, haunting, and simmering with life. Cundieff’s poems deal with loss and change through images that are startling in their originality. These poems will stay with you; they will remind you what poems can do.

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  • The Gardens of Our Childhoods
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    The gardens of our childhoods

    The Gardens of Our Childhoods, the stunning debut by John Belk and winner of the Autumn Houe Press Rising Writer Prize, looks at the world of professional wrestling to excavate the real within the artificial and explore the projections we create, run from, and delight in. Belk uses the spectacle ...

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  • Poem Fire
    Poem Fire

    Poem fire

    Spanning more than thirty years of work, Frank X. Gaspar’s Poem Fire: New and Selected maps an American landscape suspended between the luminous and the familiar. In a voice both bold and vulnerably intimate, these poems meditate on longing through an attention to the world’s smallest gestures—an...

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  • Objects of Desire
    Objects of Desire

    Objects of desire

    Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, selected by Alexandra Kleeman, Adam O’Fallon Price’s unflinchingly honest and deliciously existential stories explore the ways our deepest hunger teases us toward both our best selves and endings we should have avoided. Objects of Desire, Price's de...

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    Self-driving

    "Feminist and humanist, the vision here is both passionate and compassionate. It's a pageturner to be sure." —Kazim AliBetsy Fagin’s self-driving reimagines the American road trip through the lens of a contemporary woman’s journey.  Rooted in the tradition of the on-the-road narrative, Fagin’s po...

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  • Discordant
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    Discordant

    Discordant by Richard Hamilton, winner of the 2022 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Evie Shockley, is a collection of lyrical poetry offering multilayered examinations of injustices—from mass incarceration to failing schools and right-wing fascism.Hamilton’s second poetry collection is a searing exa...

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  • Peter Never Came
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    Peter never came

    The characters in Ashley Cowger’s debut collection learn to accept the fear, the regret, and the beauty of growing up in a world where Peter Pan will never come. The lives portrayed here are firmly planted in reality, a place where dreams loom only as hope on a faraway horizon.

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  • Natural Causes
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    Natural causes

    Winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, Brian Brodeur’s second full-length collection showcases clarity of voice and sits in the domestic and political.

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  • Bull: and Other Stories
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    Bull: and other stories

    Winner of the 2015 Autumn House Fiction Prize, this debut collection of short stories by Kathy Anderson is darkly funny and surprisingly tender.These thirteen stories explore gender, sexuality, love, and family dynamics while always maintaining a sense of humor. 

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  • Carry You
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    Carry you

    Glori Simmons’s new book, Carry You, is a timely collection of linked short stories that examines how war shapes and distorts our understanding of family, friends, country, and self. Simmons draws out the humanity of her characters, their flaws and failings, their hopes and desires, and their dre...

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  • Little Raw Souls
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    Little raw souls

    In Little Raw Souls, award-winning author Steven Schwartz writes of loss and replenishment in eleven suspenseful and affecting stories. Set in the contemporary American West, the stories take on the identity of a place where tradition is still a work in progress and acts of self-discovery arise f...

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  • In the Antarctic Circle
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    In the antarctic circle

    In hybrid narrative prose poems, In the Antarctic Circle follows two characters as they weave a life among the frigid, white landscape of the southern continent. This is not the Antarctic of polar expeditions or scientific discovery. This is the Antarctica of domestic disharmony, of love amid lon...

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  • Vixen
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    Vixen

    Cherene Sherrard’s debut poetry collection Vixen takes to task the historical narratives and artistic mediums that have shaped racial and gender identity. Sherrard's work asks readers to closely examine the hand that guides the pen, the photographer behind the lens, and the star on stage. In powe...

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  • Beds
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    Beds

    In The Beds, award-winning poet Martha Rhodes skillfully navigates a tonally complex terrain. Rhodes’s fourth collection mixes form and free verse, specifically using the rondelet’s tight, obsessive repetition as a means to harness and modulate frenetic content.

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  • Limited by Body Habitus
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    Limited by body habitus

    Winner of the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Jennifer Renee Blevins’s debut memoir, Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story, sheds light on her experiences living with the emotional and psychological struggles of taking up space in a fat-phobic world. Bringing together experiences of...

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  • Glass Harvest
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    Glass harvest

    Amie Whittemore’s debut poetry collection, Glass Harvest, focuses on our intimate connection to the natural world and how it shapes us. Whittemore's book explores the struggle of relationships changing (or ending) and how we come to understand and accept our past and ourselves. Anyone who celebra...

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  • Otherwise
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    Otherwise

    Otherwise, the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, is a personal lyrical essay collection by Lambda Literary Award Winner, Julie Marie Wade.In this series of intimate, braided essays written throughout her 30s, Wade traces her own unwinding and becoming through probing lyricism:  “I...

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  • Given
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    Given

    Given, the debut poetry collection of Liza Katz Duncan, was the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Poetry. A tender collection that considers the idea of home and family, and untangles the deep personal and ecological loss as a result of Superstorm Sandy's destruction of the N...

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  • Origami Dogs
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    Origami dogs

    Noley Reid’s fourth book, Origami Dogs, is a testament to her mastery of the form in a collection of short stories where a diverse cast of characters face tragedies alongside their canine companions.Dogs rove the grounds of their companions’ emotions in this collection, serving as witnesses witho...

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  • Rodeo
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    Rodeo

    Longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry CollectionWinner of the 2024 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, selected by Patricia Smith, this collection of formalist poetry is part ode, part elegy, and serves as a heartfelt journey in overcoming grief and falling back in love with the world.Sunni B...

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  • Raft of Grief
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    Raft of grief

    In her second collection, Chelsea Rathburn continues to amaze with her ability to direct a clear poet’s gaze on every aspect of life, including the dissolution of a marriage. Working in both free verse and form, this book solidifies Rathburn as an essential voice for contemporary poetry.

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  • Entry Level
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    Entry level

    Entry Level, the debut short story collection of Wendy Wimmer, selected by Deesha Philyaw as the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Fiction Prize, focuses on an eclectic cast of characters trying to find, assert, or salvage their identities.These fifteen stories center around the experience of being...

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  • Come By Here
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    Come by here

    Come By Here, the third collection by author Tom Noyes, is a collection of a novella and stories, focused on how humans interact and destroy the earth.

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  • Half-Lives
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    Half-lives

    Winner of the 2023 Rising Writer Prize, Half-Lives is a playful debut short story collection imagining women’s lives in a world free of social limitations.Amid heightened restrictions about what women can and cannot do with their bodies, Lynn Schmeidler’s collection is a humane, absurd, and timel...

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  • Archipelago
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    Archipelago

    Robert Isenberg’s travelogue explores an intimate view of the Balkans through the eyes of a young American adventurer.

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  • Dark Opens
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    Dark opens

    Miriam Levine’s third collection of poetry explores the fragility of the human body, as well as how these bodies experience the natural world.

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  • Apocalypse Mix
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    Apocalypse mix

    Winner of the 2016 Poetry Prize, selected by David St. John, Jane Satterfield’s fourth poetry collection, Apocalypse Mix, dives into a musical, war-torn, elegiac past.

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  • What You Are Now Enjoying
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    What you are now enjoying

    In her first story collection, Sarah Gerkensmeyer crafts fairy tales that re-imagine the life of women.

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  • Out of Order
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    Out of order

    Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, is the debut collection of Alexis Sears, featuring formally diverse poems that address topics from misogyny and mental health to race and identity.In this collage of unapologetic intimacy, risk-taking vulnerability, and unwavering cand...

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  • To Make It Right
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    To make it right

    In her fifth collection of poetry, Corrinne Clegg Hales mines the layers of grief and discovers how to survive in a broken world.

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  • Favorite Monster
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    Favorite monster

    Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, Sharma Shields's debut short story collection unveils the truth behind every monster with wit and tenderness.

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  • No Sweeter Fat
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    No sweeter fat

    Nancy Pagh’s award-winning debut collection evaluates desire through the lens of body consciousness. A smart and funny collection.

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  • RUN SCREAM UNBURY SAVE
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    Run scream unbury save

    Katherine McCord hilariously and poignantly captures living, as a writer/person/mother/professor/wife, that is, as anyone, overly aware and stunned by the times we are in.

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  • St. Francis and the Flies
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    St. francis and the flies

    St. Francis and the Flies is the eleventh poetry collection of noted poet and translator, Brian Swann. These stunning poems engage with the natural world unlike any other poet of our time. Rich with history, Swann’s poems are both complex and delicate.

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  • Ghost Man on Second
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    Ghost man on second

    Winner of the 2023 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, selected by Mark Jarman, Ghost Man on Second centers on strained family relationships and the search for new homes.Erica Reid’s debut collection traces a daughter’s search for her place in the world after estrangement from her parents. Reid writes, ...

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  • Bittering the Wound
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    Bittering the wound

    Bittering the Wound by Jacqui Germain, selected by Douglas Kearney as the winner of the 2021 CAAP Book Prize is a firsthand account of the 2014 Ferguson uprising that challenges how we document and report on political unrest.Part documentation, part conjuring, this debut collection works to share...

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  • New World Order
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    New world order

    In this wide-ranging collection of stories, Derek Green takes readers on a tour of the world as America’s military-industrial complex reels into a new century. Written with grace, masterful precision, and brutal honesty, New World Order shows us characters stripped of the familiar and forced to f...

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  • I Have Not Considered Consequences
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    I have not considered consequences

    New flash fiction collection by Sherrie Flick, coeditor of Flash Fiction America and author of Thank Your Lucky Stars and Whiskey, Etc., a Foreword INDIES bronze prize for best story collection.I Have Not Considered Consequences delves into the complexities of grief, desire, and a peculiar inters...

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  • Anxious Attachments
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    Anxious attachments

    Winner of the Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and Longlisted for PEN America’s Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, Anxious Attachments takes us through the life stages of a woman living in the American Southwest from the 1970s to the present.In a series of intimate es...

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  • Book of Kin
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    Book of kin

    Named one of the "Best Books of 2024" by the New York Public Library, Book of Kin draws on the poet’s Iranian heritage to process life-altering loss and grief.Darius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of a car accident that took the lives of bo...

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  • Molly
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    Molly

    Molly by Kevin Honold was selected by Dan Chaon as the winner of the 2020 Autumn House Fiction Prize and is a compelling story of enduring hardships in rural New Mexico.This debut novel tells the story of nine-year-old Raymond, nicknamed “Ray Moon” by Molly, his adoptive caretaker, a waitress, an...

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  • Praise Song for My Children
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    Praise song for my children

    Praise Song for My Children celebrates twenty-one years of poetry by one of the most significant African poets of this century. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley guides us through the complex and intertwined highs and lows of motherhood and all the roles that it encompasses: parent, woman, wife, sister, fri...

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  • Joyful Noise
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    Joyful noise

    This anthology of over 300 poems brings together America’s diverse spiritual traditions in one volume.“All poetry is spiritual,” Robert Strong points out in his introduction. “As I worked on this anthology, I heard this sentiment again and again, from poets and readers alike. The spiritual, after...

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  • All Who Belong May Enter
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    All who belong may enter

    A collection of personal essays examining relationships, whiteness, and masculinity, All Who Belong May Enter was selected by Jaquira Díaz as the winner of the 2020 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize. Nicholas Ward’s debut essay collection centers on self-exploration and cultural critique. These deepl...

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  • What the Heart Can Bear
    What the Heart Can Bear

    What the heart can bear

    The selected and uncollected poems of beloved American Rustbelt poet, Robert Gibb. 

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  • Heavy Metal
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    Heavy metal

    Winner of the 2016 Autumn House Fiction Prize, Andrew Bourelle’s debut novel, Heavy Metal, gives us a glimpse into the life of Danny, a teenager who seeks peace and stability after the death of his mother.Set in 1980s Ohio, Danny is a sensitive teen struggling to find his place in the world. Guid...

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  • Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe
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    Belief is its own kind of truth, maybe

    Lori Jakiela's memoir examines both the lives we are born with and the lives we create for ourselves.After her adoptive mother’s death, Lori Jakiela, at the age of forty, begins to seek the identity of her birth parents. Amid this loss, Jakiela also finds herself with a need to uncover her family...

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  • Taking to Water
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    Taking to water

    Taking to Water, the debut poetry collection by Jennifer Conlon, selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Poetry Prize, questions gender and embraces queerness through the lens of the natural world of North Carolina.A tender imagining and devastating reckoning, Jennifer Co...

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  • Unreconstructed
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    Unreconstructed

    Ed Ochester's Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New includes the entire text of Snow White Horses, Ochester’s earlier selected poems, as well as selections from Land of Cockaigne and a generous sampling of new poems.

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  • The Animal Indoors
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    The animal indoors

    The Animal Indoors, winner of the 2020 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Terrance Hayes, traces the experience of a Black queer woman as she seeks refuge from an unsafe world.Carly Inghram’s debut collection explores the day-to-day experiences of a Black queer woman who is ceaselessly bombarded with ...

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  • Sugar Run Road
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    Sugar run road

    In his eighth and final collection of poetry, Ed Ochester is at his best: straight-forward and tender, he views the world with no illusions and a great deal of compassion.

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  • Paper Sons: A Memoir
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    Paper sons: a memoir

    Winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, Dickson Lam's debut explores his transformation from a teenage graffiti writer to a high school teacher working with troubled youth while navigating the secret violence in his immigrant family’s past.Set in a public housing project in San Francisco, La...

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  • Keeping the Wolves at Bay
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    Keeping the wolves at bay

    The writers, some well-published with collections of their own, some newer to the literary scene, present stories that celebrate the boundless imagination and energy of the contemporary short story. The narrative premises are varied, and always original. They sweep the grand landscape of an ever-...

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  • The Dream Women Called
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    The dream women called

    Lori Wilson's second collection is a book about crossing into a new version of your own story—after a marriage ends, the parents die, the children are grown, or the faith is discarded—and finding a place to stand, a new way to take up space in the world. Uniting past and present, these poems crea...

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  • Poet's Sourcebook
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    Poet's sourcebook

    A collection of writings about poetry from both ancient and contemporary writers including Homer, Plato, Aristotle, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Philip Levine, Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, and R...

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  • Miraculum
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    Miraculum

    Miraculum shows Ruth Schwartz’s scope as a poet. These poems are passionate, tender, tough, and brimming with life.

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  • Golden Hour
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    Golden hour

    In Sue Ellen Thompson’s fourth book of poems, the acclaimed poet explores relationships between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, the past and the present.

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  • She Heads into the Wilderness
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    She heads into the wilderness

    The third poetry collection of Anne Marie Macari revels in the natural world. 

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  • Presentimiento
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    Presentimiento

    Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s award-winning memoir recalls his childhood in New Mexico and his reflections on ancestry, working to fill in the gaps in his memory to honor those loved most. 

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  • Cage of Lit Glass
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    Cage of lit glass

    The debut poetry collection of Charles Kell, Cage of Lit Glass, engages themes of death, incarceration, and family through a range of physical, emotional, and philosophical spaces. In startling images of beauty and violence, Kell creates a haunting world that mirrors our individual and cultural f...

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  • Grimoire
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    Grimoire

    Named after a magical book, Cherene Sherrard’s Grimoire is a poetry collection centered on the recovery and preservation of ancestral knowledge and the exploration of black motherhood. Incorporating experiences of food preparation, childrearing, and childbearing, the book begins with a section of...

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  • White Museum
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    White museum

    In his fifth collection, The White Museum, George Bilgere uses humor and thoughtfulness to explore modern American life.

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  • Late Rapturous
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    Late rapturous

    In his fifth poetry collection, Frank X. Gaspar’s poems are spacious and awake, in touch with faith and anxiety, and unafraid to wander. These poems are multi-layered with Judeo-Christian allusions and metaphysical images of faith.

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  • The Worried Well
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    The worried well

    The Worried Well, selected by Eduardo C. Corral as the winner of the 2024 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, is a tragicomic collection that explores the intersection of anxiety and safety in a chaotic world. Anthony Immergluck balances the thin lines between healing and ailing, between humor and ...

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  • The Small Door of Your Death
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    The small door of your death

    This honest and haunting collection of poems by Sheryl St. Germain follows the loss of the poet’s only son to heroin addiction. St. Germain takes us through the stages of her grief and offers no false promises or simple answers. These narrative-driven poems are a compelling and compassionate look...

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  • Interlocutor Goddess
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    Interlocutor goddess

    “Jasmine Reid writes a shapeful, theoretical work involved in the rigorous attending to emergent selves and the languages made in calling them into being.” —aracelis girmayInterlocutor Goddess explores the creation of a trans language for selfhood within an exilic state of "ecstatic grief."Reid's...

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  • Lie Down With Me
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    Lie down with me

    Julie Suk’s collection of new and selected poems contains rich and sensory imagery that pierces through any darkness of subject and mood. Lie Down with Me is a beautiful book, a wonderful monument to a life dedicated to listening to the muse.

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  • Heartland Calamitous
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    Heartland calamitous

    Emerging from deep in America’s flyover states, Michael Credico’s flash fiction collection portrays an absurdist, exaggerated, and bizarre vision of the Midwest known as the heartland. The stories are clipped views into a land filled with confusion and chaos, mythical creatures, zombies, comic vi...

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  • My Life as a Doll
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    My life as a doll

    Elizabeth Kirschner’s fourth collection of poetry is an honest and poignant exploration of surviving an abusive childhood, exploring the inner landscapes of memory through stunning imagery and voice.

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  • Attention Please Now
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    Attention please now

    In his debut short story collection, Matthew Pitt creates characters who eschew convention and face the ironies and difficulties of life in the twenty-first century.

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  • Party Girls
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    Party girls

    Diane Goodman's third story collection explores class, community, and culture through the lens of a party.

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  • American Home
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    American home

    Sean Cho A.'s poetry chapbook wonders at the small, everyday delights. Danusha Laméris selected American Home for the 2020 Autumn House Chapbook Prize.Cho A.’s collection directs a keen eye on everyday occurrences and how these events shape us as individuals. This collection is filled with longin...

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  • Landscape with Female Figure
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    Landscape with female figure

    This collection covers 20+ years of poetry by master poet Andrea Hollander. The craft and development of Hollander’s poems over the years is highlighted.

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  • Monongahela Dusk
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    Monongahela dusk

    John Hoerr's Monongahela Dusk is a stunning novel exploring real-life events set in 1930s industrial Pittsburgh. In 1937, as labor turmoil sweeps across western Pennsylvania, traveling beer salesman Pete Bonner picks up hitchhiker Joe Miravich, a blacklisted coal miner running from the law. The t...

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  • Theory of Everything
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    Theory of everything

    Mary Crockett Hill considers the intimacies of daily life and what it means to be interconnected.

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  • Voice Message
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    Voice message

    Voice Message explores through villanelles, sonnets, quatrains, and even free verse the consolation and devastation that art and poetry offer. In her debut collection, Swett engages the art of Vermeer to guide and contextualize the pain of losing a child, exploring how can art offer motivation, c...

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  • Dear Good Naked Morning
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    Dear good naked morning

    Winner of the 2004 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize, selected by Alicia Ostriker, Ruth Schwartz’s Dear Good Naked Morning explores what it is to be a woman in love with the world.

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  • under the aegis of a winged mind
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    Under the aegis of a winged mind

    The poems in under the aegis of a winged mind are inspired by the life and times of the jazz composer and pianist Earl “Bud” Powell. Powell was a leading figure in the development of jazz, but throughout his life, he also faced struggles with police brutality, harassment, drug and alcohol abuse, ...

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  • The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water
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    The drowning boy's guide to water

    Winner of the inaugural Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize, Cameron Barnett’s debut The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water, explores the complexity of race and the body for a black man in today’s America.

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  • Deep & Wild
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    Deep & wild

    Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, the essays in Laura Jackson's debut, Deep & Wild, chronicle the beauty and awe of Appalachia through the eyes of a lifelong West Virginian.Jackson employs her knowledge of and curiosity for the region to describe life in West Virginia as it ac...

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  • Neorealist in Winter
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    Neorealist in winter

    The Neorealist in Winter: Stories by Salvatore Pane, selected by Venita Blackburn as the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Fiction Prize, is a collection of eleven short stories following Italian characters exploring life in an era of media oversaturation. Utilizing methods of speculative, historic...

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  • Whiskey, Etc.
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    Whiskey, etc.

    Sherrie Flick's Whiskey, Etc., is filled with stories that are funny and serious, outrageous and everyday. Readers will meet a cast of characters ranging from a woman who cleans her soon-to-be ex-husband's house to a woman who seduces her paperboy. These stories are short but pack an emotional pu...

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  • Ishmael Mask
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    Ishmael mask

    Charles Kell's second collection of poems considers the instability of identity through fictional and religious characters while tackling issues of addiction, incarceration, and loss.In Ishmael Mask, Charles Kell reminds us that identity is precarious. Kell’s collection is a collage of the journe...

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  • Truth Poker
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    Truth poker

    His seventh book of fiction, Brazaitis writes a collection of stories that explore the lives of characters with unfortunate luck.

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  • So Many Africas
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    So many africas

    In her memoir, winner of the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize, Jill Kanel details her early days as a newlywed, accompanying her Dutch husband to Zambia and living in a village so remote that it takes an eight-hour canoe ride to reach. This book recounts Kandel's day-to-day experiences, explor...

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  • The Running Body
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    The running body

    The Running Body by Emily Pifer, selected by Steve Almond as the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, is a memoir of addiction, body image, and healing, through the lens of a long-distance runner. Pifer’s debut memoir wrestles and reckons with power and agency, language and story, bo...

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  • Under the Broom Tree
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    Under the broom tree

    Natalie Homer's debut poetry collection explores the wilderness in all of us to find rest and divine providence.In the story of the prophet Elijah, he must flee his home, and, after an arduous journey, he arrives under a broom tree, where he prays for his own death. But in his sleep, he is touche...

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  • Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
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    Autumn house anthology of contemporary american poetry

    A comprehensive anthology that includes work by 110 important American poets, established and emerging.Includes poems by Kim Addonizio, Jimmy Santiago Baca, George Bilgere, Chana Bloch, Lucille Clifton, Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Stephen Dobyns, Rita Dove, Denise Duhamel, Stephen Dunn, Terran...

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