Announcing AJB's Fall/Winter 2027 Season of Books
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Matthew Olzmann, Donald Revell, J. Mae Barizo, Nicole Cooley, & Kevin Goodan!
Matthew Olzmann is the author of three collections of poems from Alice James Books: Mezzanines, which was selected for the Kundiman Prize, Contradictions in the Design, and Constellation Route. His writing has appeared in Best American Poetry, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Brevity, and elsewhere. He’s been awarded fellowships from the Kresge Arts Foundation, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the MacDowell Colony. Currently, he teaches at Dartmouth College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.
Donald Revell is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, most recently of Canandaigua (2024) and White Campion (2021), both from Alice James Books. Revell has also published six volumes of translation from the French, including Apollinaire's Alcools, Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, LaForgue's Last Verses, and Verlaine's Songs Without Words. His critical writings have been collected as: Sudden Eden; Essay: A Critical Memoir; The Art of Attention; and Invisible Green: Selected Prose. Winner of the PEN USA TRANSLATION AWARD and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for poetry, he has also won the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize and is a former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. Additionally, he has twice been awarded Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Having previously taught at the Universities of Alabama, Denver, Iowa, Missouri, Tennessee, and Utah, Donald Revell is currently Professor Emeritus of English at UNLV. He lives in Geneva, New York.
J. Mae Barizo is a writer and artist who works at the intersections of poetics, media, and performance. She is the author of The Cumulus Effect (Four Way Books) and Tender Machines (Tupelo Press); Becoming Hybrid, her book of essays on transdisciplinary theory, is forthcoming from the Poets on Poetry series. She was an artist-in-residence at Baryshnikov Arts, and her monodrama "Cloud Variations" had its world premiere at Carnegie Hall in 2025. Born in Toronto to Filipino immigrants, she teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing at The New School.
Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans and is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Mother Water Ash (LSU Press 2024). She has published two other collections with AJB: Of Marriage (2018) and Milk Dress (2010). She teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
Raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Western Montana, Kevin Goodan began working for the U.S. Forest Service at a young age, and attended the Universities of Montana and Massachusetts. He has lived in Northern Ireland, and lectured at universities on terrorism. His poems have been published in Ploughshares and other journals. Kevin Goodan lives in the Upper Valley Region of New Hampshire, where he operates a small-scale sustainable logging enterprise.
Matthew Olzmann
"Being human is the bleakest, saddest, most incomprehensibly infuriating endeavor I have ever participated in. And yet. So much laughter. So many delicious things to eat. So many friends who make life worth living. Why is Matthew Olzmann one of the only poets I know who actually allows all of this to be true. Everyone talks about Matthew Olzmann as one of our funniest poets. Higher praise to me is that he is our true Bard of Oblivion. And that honesty. That ethics and care to not insist that it gets better becomes the most revelatory thing: honesty, which becomes a gateway to hilarity, which becomes the physical manifestation of laughter and crying and marveling and telling one's friends about it. At the end of the world may I have poetry and friendship and love like Matthew Olzmann. This book should be seen as part of an oeuvre of unrelenting fury and grace. Let that be the end of the world I am part of. Olzmann is unmatched and welcomes every one of us."
—Gabrielle Calvocoressi, author of The New Economy
September 2027
ISBN: 9781949944006