“Zombie Vomit Mad Libs by Duy Đoàn (Nov., Alice James) includes all the play, allusion, and potential violence of its title. It brings diacritics to English, suicides to lists, and screenplays to poems with a frantic, perplexed drive. … The volume cites movies and other texts with the scattered, interrupted brief thoughts that characterize its zombieness like a new genre of horror on the page."
—Poetry Northwest
"Ostriker confronts the intricate dance between spiritual despair and revelatory beauty in her ethereal 17th collection. ... [The Holy & Broken Bliss] resonates long after the final page, reminding readers that even in a fractured, plague-stricken world, there is still a living, breathing force within all things."
—Publishers Weekly
"...in this visually lush and lyrically dexterous collection of poems, Falomo offers his readers work that bends and reimagines the limits of language, blends the Divine with the digital present, contemporary music with the voices of the past while the speaker traverses the friction between their American & Nigerian heritage."
—I.S. Jones, author of Spells of My Name
"I Don’t Want to Be Understood is a blistering and a balm. Its speaker holds inside herself the garden, lush, the attending rot, seed and bloom, and the desire to be tended and tenderly so. Alongside the garden, Espinoza charts the cosmology of a woman come into herself in a world of violence, a world that would undo the wonder of this speaker. I leave this book deeply moved by Espinoza’s insistence on nurturing a green hope, a green heart.”
—Donika Kelly
NEW RELEASES:
NEWS:
No Ruined Stone author Shara McCallum’s Behold is forthcoming in September 2026 from AJB. Welcome home, Shara!
Father Dirt author Mihaela Moscaliuc’s Heartmoor is forthcoming in August 2026 from AJB. Welcome home, Mihaela!
Brother Sleep author Aldo Amparán’s second poetry collection The House Has Teeth is forthcoming in September 2026 from AJB. Welcome home, Aldo!
Established to provide a unique opportunity to women writers, the Jean Valentine Series will publish books authored by mid-career, women-identifying poets. Selected poets will receive a cash prize and publication by Alice James Books.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Alice James Award.
Alice James Books is elated to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $45,000.
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Andrés Cerpa & Ina Cariño!
Iain Haley Pollock’s poetry collection All the Possible Bodies is forthcoming in September 2025. Welcome home, Iain!
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Leigh Sugar, Michael M. Weinstein, & Cecily Parks!
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Joan Larkin, Alicia Ostriker, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, and Ally Ang!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 Alice James Award.
Alice James Books will publish Alessandra Lynch’s 5th poetry collection, Wish Ave, in October 2024. Welcome back, Alessandra!
Alice James Books will publish Matthew Nienow’s poetry collection, If Nothing, in January 2025. Welcome back, Matthew!
Ayokunle’s poetry collection Autobiomythography of is forthcoming in September 2024. Big welcome, Ayo!
Alice James Books is a recipient of a Poetry Fund grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership and Academy of American Poets.
Jennifer’s poetry collection I Don’t Want to Be Understood is forthcoming in August 2024. Big welcome, Jennifer!
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2022 Alice James Award.
Candace’s debut poetry collection I am the Most Dangerous Thing is forthcoming in May 2023. Big welcome, Candace!
We are pleased to announce that How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Jane Wong has been longlisted for the 2022 Pen/Voelcker Award in Poetry.
Katie’s debut poetry collection Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is forthcoming in April 2023. Big welcome, Katie!
Vandana’s poetry collection Burning Like Her Own Planet will be forthcoming in April 2023. Welcome to AJB, Van!
Alice James Books is a recipient of a grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership and Academy of American Poets.
J.’s poetry collection We Borrowed Gentleness will be forthcoming in October 2022. Welcome to AJB, J.!
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award.
Omotara’s poetry collection Song of My Softening will be forthcoming in April 2022. Welcome to AJB, Omotara!
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