Winner of the 2024 Alice James Award
"Intellectually rigorous and emotionally piercing, Villanueva’s sophomore collection (after Reliquaria) threads Greek myth, Christian iconography, and family history into a frank exploration of mortality. ... The result is a dynamic book of witness, resistance, and radical hope."
—Publishers Weekly Starred Review
“I love these poems for the way their imagery touches the reader with a gentleness and capacious questioning mind. These labyrinthian poems that navigate memory, country, pain are stunning, original, and layered. Mostly, these poems feel true to me, not as in fact, but True."
—Victoria Chang, author of Obit
"The emotions in Ang’s poems jumped from the line and into my soul. They explore queerness without filter or apology. The poems are radiant."
—Debutiful
"Women and the natural world take center stage in these precise and visionary poems by Parks (O’Nights). The collection interrogates interiority, motherhood, and the choices of famous female figures ... Parks memorably evokes the textures and intricacies of life on earth."
—Publishers Weekly
"… All the Possible Bodies guarantees that our own bodies—every single one of them—hold mysteries and powers enough to face, and to overcome, the ruin and the wrack."
—Joseph Byrd, Bear Review
“Saint Consequence is a book of 21st century transits—out of an iconic American childhood, towards the culture and language of Russia, out of one gender and into another. … I admire this collection’s bravery, but I am in thrall to its winning sense of adventure, its grand and generous heart.”
—Katie Peterson
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Featuring collections from new & returning Alice James authors Matthew Olzmann, Donald Revell, J. Mae Barizio, Nicole Cooley, & Kevin Goodan.
Alice James Books will publish The Rediscovered Beauty Room in May 2027.
Alice James Books will publish The Last Great Adventure is You in June 2027.
Alice James Books will Publish Olatunde Osinaike’s next collection, Image + Likeness, in August of 2027.
Alice James Books will Publish Judith Vollmer’s next collection, The Pavese Stone, in March of 2026.
Alice James Books will Publish Carson’s Debut, The Laughing Barrel, in April of 2027.
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!
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.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Alice James Award.
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!
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Joan Larkin, Alicia Ostriker, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, and Ally Ang!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Alice James Award.
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.
Jennifer’s poetry collection I Don’t Want to Be Understood is forthcoming in August 2024. Big welcome, Jennifer!
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Alice James Award.
Candace’s debut poetry collection I am the Most Dangerous Thing is forthcoming in May 2023. Big welcome, Candace!
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