Book sales cover just 20% of our total operations cost, meaning your support is vital to our work. Alice James is committed to collaborating with literary artists who offer overlooked perspectives and whose voices have been historically marginalized, which means our vision is focused on the artistic power and social influence of a writer’s work, not just its sales potential.
The press provides a platform that elevates key literary voices and is dedicated to helping its writers achieve purposeful engagement with a broad audience. We believe this work ultimately contributes to building and growing a more understanding, equitable, and just community through literature.
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“Alice James Books has been one of the major forces in American poetry for the past four decades [and] has launched the careers of too many important American poets to list.”
–Publishers Weekly
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