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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.
It's 2004, 2024, and we're all “at the circus, for some reason.” In Mall Water, Jaco delves into the interplay of gender, capitalism, the built environment, and the buy one get one horrors of existing in public. It's the stress, it's nascent adulthood, it's just that one hallway and you can avoid it.
$15 with kith books
Jenna Jaco (they/she) is a genderfluid poet and technical writer from Texas. You can find their poems in Ballast, Fifth Wheel Press, Underblong, and elsewhere. Their debut full-length collection, Mall Water, was released in 2024 with Kith Books.
Les Portes traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations.
Unfolding in three movements—Le Début, Le Passé, and Le Présent—all of which rupture conventional domestic abuse narratives, and drawing heavily from zuihitsu, ekphrasis, erasure, and found forms to mirror the fractured experience of living through and after harm, these poems serve as radical meditations on the power to reflect as resistance. A queer woman caught in an abusive marriage begins to reimagine justice not as punishment but as something restorative, collective, and deeply non-carceral.
In her debut book, Nnoka poses the question that propels the collection: “Where is the path forward / that ensures no recurrence?” Rather than gesture toward resolution, Les Portes dwells inside this question, and what emerges is not consolation but an immense reckoning.
$17.95 with Autumn House Press
Meredith Nnoka (they/she) is a Chicago-based poet, teacher, and prison abolitionist. She is the author of Les Portes, winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, and the chapbooks I Could Never Be Your Woman (O, Miami, 2023) and A Hunger Called Music: A Verse History of Black Music (C&R Press, 2016). Nnoka holds a BA from Smith College and an MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, both in Africana studies. She teaches poetry in carceral facilities and has received fellowships from Illinois Humanities, Lambda Literary, and the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project. Twice nominated for Best of the Net, her poems have appeared in Diode Poetry Journal, Four Way Review, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere.
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.
$5 via tiny wren lit
About the Author: Elena Zhang (she/her) is a Chinese American writer and mother living in Chicago. Her work can be found in HAD, The Citron Review, and X-R-A-Y, among other publications. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, and was selected for Best Microfiction 2024 and 2025.