Alice James Books is an independent poetry press dedicated to publishing books that matter by poets who inspire. 🦋: https://xitter.cf/t.co/a1g1acBB1E
New Gloucester, ME
Joined February 2012
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Add this amazing #AWP26 featured event to your schedule! Rewriting the Archive: Poetic Voices on Who Defines History, Sponsored by @AliceJamesBooks, featuring Natalie Diaz, @TyehimbaJess, Andrea Jurjević, Iain Haley Pollock, and @LeighSugar3 on Friday, March 6, 2026 in Baltimore! conference.awpwriter.org/AJB…
ALT Headshots of the five Alice James Books panelists on a purple background with #AWP26 Baltimore branding
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"Danger Music" from my forthcoming collection The House Has Teeth in @Poetry_Daily! @AliceJamesBooks #poetry
Today’s Feature:
“Danger Music” by Aldo Amparán from Epoch vol 72.2
Read here:
poems.com/poem/danger-music/
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Warm congratulations to CLMP members @CopperCanyonPrs, @AliceJamesBooks, @DeepVellum, @DorothyProject, @GraywolfPress & @Milkweed_Books for being longlisted in the categories of Poetry and Nonfiction!
Congrats to everyone Longlisted for the 2025 #NBAwards for Poetry and Nonfiction! Visit the Foundation’s website to learn more. nationalbook.org/2025-nation…
🎉 Happy Pub Day to ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES by Iain Haley Pollock 🎉 A candid collection on violence, racial justice, and what it means to be American.
🔗 ORDER NOW: bit.ly/possiblebodies
So proud to celebrate Esther Lin and her stunning debut COLD THIEF PLACE, just longlisted for the 76th @nationalbook Awards! 🌟 A rare honor for a first collection + a testament to Esther’s extraordinary voice. Congrats to Esther and all this year’s nominees! 💐📚 #NBAwards
Big congrats to @deesoulpoetry, named a 2025 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Poetry Fellow! 🎉 And cheers to @caesarah_, a finalist this year—AJB is so proud to publish you both! Learn more: buff.ly/KWx91wz 🌟
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Don’t miss paid jobs and fellowships currently open at @POETSorg, @AliceJamesBooks, @Milkweed_Books, @wwborders, and more literary orgs! Find information for each position on our job board: clmp.org/programs-opportunit…
ICYMI: Omotara James and Joshua Jennifer Espinoza were both shortlisted for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards—in Lesbian and Transgender Poetry! 🌈📚 So thrilled to see these AJB collections honored. 💜 More at: bit.ly/4m6jZek
#Lammy2025 #LambdaLiterary #QueerPoetry #AJBPoets
📣 We're hiring! AJB seeks a part-time Production Coordinator (20–25 hrs/wk) in New Gloucester, ME. Join our team & help bring books to life! 2–3 yrs experience preferred. Must commute 2+ days/wk.
📚 Details: bit.ly/AJBSubmit
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🎉 Happy Pub Day to SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein! A luminous debut exploring transition, illness, and the body as a site of transformation—spiritual, physical, and public. Out now from Alice James Books: bit.ly/saint-consequence
Seattle: Join us Aug 12 at Hugo House for "Towards Collective Liberation"—a live poetry event celebrating FREELAND by Leigh Sugar, with readings by Ally Ang & Shelby Handler.
✨ 6–8pm PT | Theater Lobby
📍 Register: buff.ly/9VT0osq
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SAINT CONSEQUENCE by Michael M. Weinstein is on our #DisabilityPrideMonth reading list!
This poetry collection from @AliceJamesBooks is “a book of 21st century transits … towards the culture and language of Russia, out of one gender and into another.”
alicejamesbooks.org/bookstor…
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“My petitioner is interested in sex. / His distinguishing feature is a hibiscus tattoo. / My petitioner’s mother dislikes me. / Her son would never marry someone like me.” —Esther Lin, “Ms. L— Describe Your Petitioner” @hyperallergic @AliceJamesBooks hyperallergic.com/536048/two…
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Poet Esther Lin discusses how she drew from tales, texts, and oral family history in writing "Cold Thief Place" (@AliceJamesBooks), which explores the fear and instability of growing up in the U.S. as an undocumented child. New interview by Tiffany Troy: raintaxi.com/one-dreams-of-p…
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Leigh Sugar’s debut poetry collection “dramatizes what it’s like to stand on the outside looking in ... to live within a love confined by the state.” —Edward Hirsch
FREELAND (@AliceJamesBooks) is on our reading list for #DisabilityPrideMonth: alicejamesbooks.org/bookstor…
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"I hear what we are meant for
outside this room."
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Here by Jean Valentine from Light Me Down - The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (2024 @AliceJamesBooks) tinyurl.com/dex2wank
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Leigh Sugar's essay "If and Abolition" is up today @adroitjournal. Leigh's new book is FREELAND, just out from @AliceJamesBooks.
theadroitjournal.org/2025/07…
#BefriendaBook to support 1 of 11 upcoming AJB titles by funding editorial, production, or promotion 📚 Each donation enters you to win signed copies of all 11 books — a shelf of poetry from debut and award-winning voices! Give now → bit.ly/BefriendaBook
Look who’s in Poets & Writers! 🎉
Honored to see Leigh Sugar’s FREELAND featured in “Page One” alongside such powerful new work.
More: buff.ly/pJwoIUW 💫
