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We’re thrilled to welcome @tundelasoul to Alice James Books for his second collection, IMAGE + LIKENESS, out August 2027 🙌 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4kwud76 📚 Preorder 20% off: bit.ly/imglikeness

Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by Leigh Sugar, with readings by Ally Ang & Shelby Handler. ✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby 📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq #SeattlePoetry #LiveLit #HugoHouse

I Don’t Want To Be Understood by ⁦@sadqueer4life⁩ ⁦@AliceJamesBooks⁩ #poetry #transpoetry

SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein is on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list! This poetry collection from @AliceJamesBooks is “a book of 21st century transits … towards the culture and language of Russia, out of one gender and into another.” alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/sain…

“My petitioner is interested in sex. / His distinguishing feature is a hibiscus tattoo. / My petitioner’s mother dislikes me. / Her son would never marry someone like me.” —Esther Lin, “Ms. L— Describe Your Petitioner” @hyperallergic @AliceJamesBooks hyperallergic.com/536048/two-poe…

Poet Esther Lin discusses how she drew from tales, texts, and oral family history in writing "Cold Thief Place" (@AliceJamesBooks), which explores the fear and instability of growing up in the U.S. as an undocumented child. New interview by Tiffany Troy: raintaxi.com/one-dreams-of-…

Leigh Sugar’s debut poetry collection “dramatizes what it’s like to stand on the outside looking in ... to live within a love confined by the state.” —Edward Hirsch FREELAND (@AliceJamesBooks) is on our reading list for #DisabilityPrideMonth: alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/free…

"I hear what we are meant for outside this room." #TodaysPoem #poetry Here by Jean Valentine from Light Me Down - The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (2024 @AliceJamesBooks) tinyurl.com/dex2wank

Leigh Sugar's essay "If and Abolition" is up today @adroitjournal. Leigh's new book is FREELAND, just out from @AliceJamesBooks. theadroitjournal.org/2025/07/01/if-…

#BefriendaBook to support 1 of 11 upcoming AJB titles by funding editorial, production, or promotion 📚 Each donation enters you to win signed copies of all 11 books — a shelf of poetry from debut and award-winning voices! Give now → bit.ly/BefriendaBook

Look who’s in Poets & Writers! 🎉 Honored to see Leigh Sugar’s FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work. More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫

Thrilled to welcome @RosebudBenOni back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌 Expansive poems on memory, theory & time. 🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc

Grateful for the early love for Leigh Sugar’s FREELAND this week: ✨ @ElectricLit interview on love, prison & poetry buff.ly/T6ZFunM ⭐ @BearReview calls it “a work of obsession & careful analysis” buff.ly/AgcCkvj 📝 @PhillyChapbook shares “Ars Poetica” +…

Esther Lin’s essay, “I Was Undocumented for 21 Years,” is now in @TIME Magazine. Her story of living without status from age 4 to 27 arrives at a crucial moment. Esther is the author of COLD THIEF PLACE, published by AJB in March 💛 📰 buff.ly/F7vc223

9 months of Autobiomythography of being in the world. Thank you dearly, dear readers. Please share with me your favorite moment, line, image, poem and/or a picture of you with the book 🙏🏾

Mary Helen Callier 💙 “…and this is like falling in love.” from WHEN THE HORSES

FREELAND by Leigh Sugar is out today from Alice James 🖤🤍 A fierce, inventive debut tracing a love across prison walls and the systems of mass incarceration. Poems on race, memory, mental illness, and freedom. “Freeland is a vibrant conjuring of a kinder, wiser world.” —Idra…

I am so honored 🙌🏾✨

🎉 Exciting news! AUTOBIOMYTHOGRAPHY OF by @mrafalomo has won the 2025 Maine Literary Award for Excellence in Publishing! 💙 📖 Out Sept 2024 from Alice James Books Huge thanks to the MWPA! #MaineLiteraryAwards #AliceJamesBooks

Bay Area readers—this one’s for you! 🌟 Don’t miss acclaimed poet Mia Ayumi Malhotra, author of MOTHERSALT, as the featured reader at the Burlingame Public Library Poetry Open Mic on June 11 at 6 PM. 📍 Full event details at buff.ly/4xLuPsS