Iain Haley Pollock Returns to Alice James Books

 

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Alice James Books is thrilled to welcome Iain Haley Pollock back to the press!

Pollock’s second AJB poetry collection, All the Possible Bodies is forthcoming from Alice James Books in September 2025. Welcome home, Iain!

Iain Haley Pollock is the author of the poetry collections Ghost, Like a Place (2018) and Spit Back a Boy (2011).  His poems have appeared in numerous other publications, ranging from American Poetry Review to The New York Times Magazine and The Progressive.  Pollock has received several honors for his work including the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Alice Faye di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a nomination for an NAACP Image Award.  He currently serves as Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.

 

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