Announcing AJB's Spring/Summer 2028 Season of Books
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from new Alices S. Brook Corfman, Karan Kapoor, and returning AJB poets Shira Erlichman and Ellen Doré Watson.
S. Brook Corfman is the author of two previous books of poetry: My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2020, a finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans & Gender-Variant Literature, and the winner of the Fordham University Press POL poetry prize judged by Cathy Park Hong; and Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize. She is also the author of three chapbooks, including Frames (Belladonna* #256), and in 2024 she received the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born and raised in Chicago, she now lives in Pittsburgh.
Karan Kapoor is the Editor-in-Chief of Strange Pilgrims and ONLY POEMS. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets, AGNI, Shenandoah, North American Review, and elsewhere. He serves on the editorial board of Alice James Books.
Ellen Doré Watson is the author of five full-length collections of poems, most recently, pray me stay eager, from Alice James Books. Earlier works include Dogged Hearts, from Tupelo Press, This Sharpening, also from Tupelo, and two from Alice James Books, We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music, winner of the New England/New York award. Watson’s journal appearances include APR, Tin House, Orion, Field, Ploughshares and The New Yorker. Among her honors are a Rona Jaffe Writers Award, fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. She has translated nine volumes from Brazilian Portuguese, most notably the poetry of Adélia Prado, including The Alphabet in the Park (Wesleyan University Press), Ex-Voto (Tupelo), and, The Mystical Rose, from the UK poetry publisher Bloodaxe Books. Watson served for decades as Poetry & Translation editor at The Massachusetts Review and Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College. Currently, she teaches in Fairfield University’s Low-Res MFA Program, leads generative workshops on Zoom, and takes on private students for developmental editing of poetry manuscripts.
Writer, visual artist, and musician Shira Erlichman is the author of Odes to Lithium (2019) which won the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and is the writer-illustrator of the picture book Be/Hold: A Friendship Book (2019). Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Huffington Post, The Nation, and PBS, among others. A finalist for the Lambda award and a recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, she runs In Surreal Life: an Online Global Creativity School and is a Visiting Professor in the Randolph College Low-Residency MFA. Her debut novel, Tangerapple, is forthcoming from Knopf in June 2027. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife.
