Lumina Station
“Poet and translator Mörling’s long-awaited third collection (after 2006’s Astoria) further cements her place among the finest contemporary metaphysical poets.”
—Fred Muratori, Library Journal Starred Review
“Poet and translator Mörling’s long-awaited third collection (after 2006’s Astoria) further cements her place among the finest contemporary metaphysical poets.”
—Fred Muratori, Library Journal Starred Review
"Future Tense is a thoughtful, beautiful meditation on the slow, aching, and sometimes miraculous state of intertwined grief—in a manner that is not only about sadness, but also, through its rich imagery and world-building, asks a reader to consider what they love, what they have, perhaps, taken for granted, and how to adjust the arc of their own universe."
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year
"Shara McCallum’s Behold is the kind of book that first stunned me into the abiding love I have for language. At once mystical, political, and lyrical, these poems redraw the boundaries of what we might consider the limits of human insight. Poems like these remind us that, if there is ever to be a fully realized awakening in terms of our relationship to history, we need poetry."
—Tim Seibles, author of Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems
"The beautiful strangeness of language and the sobering strangeness of life are braided into lyrical brilliance in Aldo Amparán’s second book. Here, what haunts the speaker and the language itself is so startling, so deftly stapled down, I often found myself spellbound. Here, queerness and borders are sites of refusals and consolations. These poems are undeniable and exquisite."
—Eduardo Corral, author of Guillotine
"Guggenheim fellow Moscaliuc presents lucid, lithe, and gripping poems about growing up in a Romania besieged by dictatorial tyrannies, intrusive and crushing....The need for secrecy, the valor of helping others, the malignancy of informers, and systemic corruption are all addressed with chilling matter-of-factness. Moscaliuc’s lyrical and sensuous palimpsest poems of her life in the U.S. evoke a world in sharp contrast even as the past is hauntingly present."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist
The 2024 Alice James Award Editor’s Choice
"Martino’s debut collection lounges on Lake Michigan beaches, looks out on Milwaukee’s skyline, and provides readers with myriad ways to enjoy these poems. ... Scrap Book asks what we inherit from our parents, what lies behind a broken relationship, and the meaning of conviction and the handcuff 'chaining us to memory.'"
—Abby McCabe, Booklist Starred Review
NEW RELEASES:
"The beautiful strangeness of language and the sobering strangeness of life are braided into lyrical brilliance in Aldo Amparán’s second book. Here, what haunts the speaker and the language itself is so startling, so deftly stapled down, I often found myself spellbound. Here, queerness and borders are sites of refusals and consolations. These poems are undeniable and exquisite."
—Eduardo Corral, author of Guillotine
"'Men instilled in me /an empty. I’ve grown up/ without a body // of my own.' The traumas and vital reclamations of 'Self-Portrait of the Stolen Body' come midway in Amparán’s visceral second collection and its poems full of hauntings, of trauma reflected from the opening loose crown of sonnets filled with closets and candlelit rooms and wounded and severed bodies. ... Amparán depicts the brutalities of the world unmitigated by art."
—Rebecca Morgan Frank, Literary Hub
September 2026
ISBN: 9781967149001
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"Shara McCallum’s Behold is the kind of book that first stunned me into the abiding love I have for language. At once mystical, political, and lyrical, these poems redraw the boundaries of what we might consider the limits of human insight. Poems like these remind us that, if there is ever to be a fully realized awakening in terms of our relationship to history, we need poetry."
—Tim Seibles, author of Voodoo Libretto: New & Selected Poems
“This skillful collection uncovers the intersection of art’s public and private dimensions.”
—Publishers Weekly
"[Behold] is a praise hymn to close attention, soulful contemplation, and, for the reader, a curated voyage of discovery."
—The Scotsman
September 2026
ISBN: 9781967149025
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"Guggenheim fellow Moscaliuc presents lucid, lithe, and gripping poems about growing up in a Romania besieged by dictatorial tyrannies, intrusive and crushing....The need for secrecy, the valor of helping others, the malignancy of informers, and systemic corruption are all addressed with chilling matter-of-factness. Moscaliuc’s lyrical and sensuous palimpsest poems of her life in the U.S. evoke a world in sharp contrast even as the past is hauntingly present."
—Donna Seaman, Booklist
August 2026
ISBN: 9781949944808
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“Malena Mörling has the gift of looking at ordinary things with such wonder it can feel like visionary hunger."
—Robert Hass
“Poet and translator Mörling’s long-awaited third collection (after 2006’s Astoria) further cements her place among the finest contemporary metaphysical poets.”
—Fred Muratori, Library Journal Starred Review
“...This excellent offering from Mörling (Astoria), refreshes the perception of time as a collection of seconds, minutes, and hours ... These rich and surprising poems are worthy of revisiting.”
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review
November 2026
ISBN: 9781967149063
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Alice James Books will Publish Judith Vollmer’s next collection, The Pavese Stone, in March of 2026.
Congratulations to Malvika Jolly & zakia henderson-brown, winners of the 2025 Alice James Award and Editor’s Choice.
The author of two previous books of poetry, Mörling will publish her third collection, Lumina Station, with Alice James Books in November 2026.
Alice James Books is elated to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $45,000.
No Ruined Stone author Shara McCallum’s Behold is forthcoming in September 2026 from AJB. Welcome home, Shara!
Father Dirt author Mihaela Moscaliuc’s Heartmoor is forthcoming in August 2026 from AJB. Welcome home, Mihaela!
Brother Sleep author Aldo Amparán’s second poetry collection The House Has Teeth is forthcoming in September 2026 from AJB. Welcome home, Aldo!
Kelly Grace Thomas’s poetry collection Future Tense is forthcoming in October 2026. Welcome, Kelly!
Established to provide a unique opportunity to women writers, the Jean Valentine Series will publish books authored by mid-career, women-identifying poets. Selected poets will receive a cash prize and publication by Alice James Books.
Alice James Books is elated to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $45,000.
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Andrés Cerpa & Ina Cariño!
Iain Haley Pollock’s poetry collection All the Possible Bodies is forthcoming in September 2025. Welcome home, Iain!
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Leigh Sugar, Michael M. Weinstein, & Cecily Parks!
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Duy’s poetry collection Zombie Vomit Mad Libs is forthcoming in November 2024. Big welcome, Duy!
Alice James Books will publish Alessandra Lynch’s 5th poetry collection, Wish Ave, in October 2024. Welcome back, Alessandra!
Alice James Books will publish Matthew Nienow’s poetry collection, If Nothing, in January 2025. Welcome back, Matthew!
Ayokunle’s poetry collection Autobiomythography of is forthcoming in September 2024. Big welcome, Ayo!
Alice James Books is a recipient of a Poetry Fund grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership and Academy of American Poets.
WHAT OUR POETS SAY:
Kelly Grace Thomas
"Future Tense is a thoughtful, beautiful meditation on the slow, aching, and sometimes miraculous state of intertwined grief—in a manner that is not only about sadness, but also, through its rich imagery and world-building, asks a reader to consider what they love, what they have, perhaps, taken for granted, and how to adjust the arc of their own universe."
—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year
"Future Tense is memoir-in-verse gifting us ample permutations of longing. Kelly Grace Thomas charts the overlap (both temporal and metaphorical) of her mother’s death and trying for a child. True to the title, tension lights up this collection. In eclectic structures, whether careful tercets or sprawling fragments, Thomas ricochets between loss and desire until they blend. When it comes to the myriad expectations and stigmas placed on the infertile body, Thomas is willing to lay so much bare for us, unflinchingly charting desperation and the cost of wanting."
—Shira Erlichman, author of Odes to Lithium
October 2026
ISBN: 9781967149049
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