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In this love letter to gravity—enthralled, ambivalent, rebellious, curious—Anna Antongiorgi beautifully delineates the privileges and costs of being earthbound. Here are the injuries of the body but also the near-miracle and joy of dance, the small pleasures and trials of the everyday. —Laurie Sheck
$14.99 via Finishing Line Press
About the Author: Anna Antongiorgi (she/they) is a poet, choreographer, and dancer. She earned her BA in English and Theatre, Dance, and Media at Harvard, followed by an MFA in Poetry at the New School. Her most recent choreographic work, “itsokitsokitsokitsokitsok” was commissioned by NorteMaar for their annual performance of CounterPointe in March 2025. She has danced with VISIONS Contemporary Ballet, Gleich Dances, and the Kennedy Dancers. She lives in Brooklyn, works as a freelance choreographer, and dances with the Brooklyn Ballet.
I think we should be louder at Dyke March is a collection born out of the chaos and upheaval of a Saturn return. The twin blows of a startling diagnosis and the end of a long-term relationship catalyze a search for love, and self-love, amid trauma, illness, and grief.
$10 via Bottlecap Press
About the Author: Sophia Carroll (she/they) is an analytical chemist and writer. She is the co-founder of M E N A C E, a magazine for the literary weird (menace-mag.com). Find her on Substack at Torpor Chamber (torporchamber.substack.com) and on Bluesky @torpor-chamber.bsky.social, where she posts a poem every weekday.
About the Illustrator: Amita S (@volapardus) is an illustrator with a love for vintage-inspired and atmospheric art, primarily with a background in fantasy, publishing and concept art.
HOME FREE is a work of weaving. Weaving personal anecdote, family lore, collective history, fast food drive-thru & heritage home cooking, the dinner table & the house party, this language’s capacity to harm & heal, snakes & more snakes, this collection refuses to hold one truth at a time.
$18 via Game Over Books
About the Author: Aparna Paul (she/her) is a writer, chemical engineer, banana bread enthusiast, & amateur crossword constructor based in Cambridge, MA. Her poetry & prose has been recognized by Reckoning, DMQ Review, & Gaining Ground, among others. She edited the anthology Reflections of The Land (Literary Cleveland, 2022) and is a co-editor of GOOD SOUP, now on hiatus (@goodsoup.mag on insta!). She performs regularly, hosts occasionally, and slams sometimes at the Boston Poetry Slam at the Cantab Lounge. HOME FREE (Game Over Books, 2025) is her debut full-length poetry collection.
Bodies twist, minds fray, and sanity crumbles in this gripping horror collection by Jim Horlock. In thirteen stories, Horlock peels back the screaming face of horror to reveal that true terror comes from change itself. In Change and Other Terrors, no one is safe, and we are all powerless to prevent it.
£11.99 via Quill & Crow Press
About the Author: Jim Horlock (he/him) lives in Wales with a collection of ghosts. He loves dark beer, smooth whiskey, and strange noises from the woods. For his weird horror collection, look for CHANGE AND OTHER TERRORS. For his slasher horror novella, seek out MASKS.
with gasoline defiantly carves out space for trans anger in an increasingly hostile world that demands trans people conform to gendered, cis het patriarchal expectations.
$17 via kith books
About the Author: nat raum (they/them) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore. They’re the editor-in-chief of fifth wheel press and the author of fruits of the valley, this book will not save you, random access memory, and others. Find them online at natraum.com.
VIRAHA is a collection birthed out of a space of enduring loneliness, a celebration for the hope of life, that never stays dead for long. These poems repurpose and invent mythologies, situating human fragility and resilience as part of the natural world: every broken heart, lost love, failed dream is as ordinary and bewildering as the sunrise, as a bird in the sky. This is a book about the hard work of continuing.
$18 via Game Over Books
About the Author: Yena Sharma Purmasir (she/her) is a poet and essayist from New York City. She is the author of Until I Learned What It Meant (Where Are You Press, 2013), When I’m Not There (self-published, 2016), OUR SYNONYMS: An Epic (Party Trick Press, 2022), and VIRAHA (Game Over Books, 2022). In 2020, she earned a master’s degree in theological studies from Harvard Divinity School, where she focused on South Asian religious traditions. As the former Queens Teen Poet Laureate (2010-2011) and a lifelong New York snob, Yena now ironically and happily lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can find her online and walking along the Charles River.