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A little Jean Valentine for your Thursday! Big thanks to Lit Hub for featuring Jean's poem "To My Teacher" today 💛 More at the link in our bio #alicejamesbooks #booksthatmatter
Omotara James’s “highly recommended” debut (Library Journal), SONG OF MY SOFTENING, is currently on sale as part of AJB’s annual Friends & Family Sale celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth! Purchase your copy for just $15 at th
📢 Did you know you can preorder your copy of Kevin Goodan’s IN THE DAYS THAT FOLLOWED for just $15 during #NationalPoetryMonth? Learn more about the collection that left Camille Dungy “raptured” and “hungry for each new page&
We're excited to share that the AJB family is expanding! Please join us in welcoming Kelly Grace Thomas to the press. Kelly's collection, FUTURE TENSE, will be published in October of 2026. Welcome, welcome, Kelly! To learn more and preorder a copy