Alice James Books Welcomes New & Returning Poets
Alice James Books is thrilled to announce new titles forthcoming from Joan Larkin, Alicia Ostriker, Mia Ayumi Malhotra, and Ally Ang!
Joan Larkin’s Old Stranger: Poems will be published in August 2024. Larkin is the author of five previous poetry collections, including Blue Hanuman and My Body: New and Selected Poems. She co-founded Out & Out Books during the 1970s feminist literary explosion, co-edited four anthologies, including Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time, and has been a lifelong teacher. Her honors include the Lambda, NEA, and Shelley Memorial awards, among others.
Alicia Ostriker’s The Holy & Broken Bliss is forthcoming in October 2024. Ostriker has published seventeen volumes of poetry, including The Volcano and After; Waiting for the Light; The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems 1979-2011; No Heaven; The Volcano Sequence; and The Imaginary Lover, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She was twice a National Book Award Finalist, for The Little Space (1998) and The Crack in Everything (1996), and twice a National Jewish Book Award winner. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Yale Review, Ontario Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Anthology, and many other journals and anthologies, and has been translated into numerous languages including Hebrew and Arabic. Ostriker’s critical work includes the now-classic Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America, and other books on American poetry and on the Bible.
Mia Ayumi Malhotra’s Mothersalt is forthcoming in May 2025. Malhotra is the author of Isako Isako, California Book Award finalist and winner of the Nautilus Gold Award, the Alice James Award, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Maine Literary Award. Her chapbook Notes from the Birth Year was winner of the Bateau Press BOOM Contest, and her work has been recognized internationally with the Hawker Prize for Southeast Asian Poetry and the Singapore Poetry Prize. She has received fellowships from Kundiman and VONA/Voices of Our Nations, and is a founding member of The Ruby SF, a gathering space for women and nonbinary artists.
Ally Ang’s Let the Moon Wobble will be published in November 2025. Ang is a gaysian poet & editor based in Seattle. A Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets nominee, their work has appeared in The Rumpus, Muzzle Magazine, ANMLY, and elsewhere. Ally has received fellowships & support from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Artist Trust. Learn more at allysonang.com.
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