Alice James Books has received a $14,000 grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership & Academy of American Poets to support the publication, promotion and distribution of poetry collections that matter in 2019.

AJB is excited to announce that Isako Isako is the winner of the 2018 Nautilus Gold Award!

Taylor's poetry collection Inheritance will be forthcoming in November 2020. Welcome to AJB, Taylor!

White Campion is forthcoming in May 2021 from AJB.

The Voice of Sheila Chandra is forthcoming in October 2020 from AJB. Welcome back, Kazim! 

We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award.

We'll be returning to AWP March 27th-30th, 2019 as an AWP literary partner, sponsoring a featured event together with Milkweed Editions. You can visit us at book fair booths 3023 & 3025, join us for an author signing or catch one of our many events throughout the conference.

Alice James Books has received a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the publication, promotion and distribution of poetry collections that matter in 2019.

Alice James Books is delighted to announce that Andrés Cerpa’s second collection, The Vault, is forthcoming in June 2021!

Alice James Books is pleased to announce that Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf is the recipient of the twenty-eighth annual John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares.

Get a preview of Andrés Cerpa’s collection Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy in Page One from Poets & Writers.

"There’s no time for poems without stakes." Tune in here for Franny Choi's (author of the forthcoming Soft Science) poem exploring alternate realities on PBS NewsHour! 

Entropy Magazine has named Mia Ayumi Malhotra's Isako Isako one of the best books of 2018! Thanks to Entropy for including Mia’s collection in this stunning list of poetry. 

Check out this profile featuring the author of Thief in the Interior in the article “Black Male Writers for Our Time” from the New York Times Style Magazine.

". . . Pollock delivers moments of levity, lyric beauty, and a creeping melancholy that lend his work its distinct atmosphere."

Alice James Books authors Mia Ayumi Malhotra and Ellen Doré Watson came to Farmington, ME as part of the UMF Visiting Writers Series.

Lucia's collection Hot With the Bad Things is forthcoming in May 2020. We wish you a warm welcome to the press, Lucia!

Check out this episode of The Spine, as Iain talks reading, literacy and Ferdinand the bull.