Alice James Books

Alice James Books Alice James Books is committed to collaborating with literary artists of excellence to publish books that matter.

We provide a platform from which to elevate key voices & is dedicated to helping writers achieve purposeful engagement with a broad audience. Alice James Books publishes the best contemporary poetry by both established and beginning poets. The press is an affiliate of the University of Maine at Farmington. Our office is located on the tranquil banks of Rollo Pond near Abbott Park in Farmington, Maine.

Thank you for being part of Alice James Books in 2025. This year brought debut voices, award recognition, new readers, s...
12/30/2025

Thank you for being part of Alice James Books in 2025. This year brought debut voices, award recognition, new readers, sold-out titles, and so many moments of connection across our community of poets and supporters.

We’re proud of what our authors accomplished and grateful for everyone who helped us bring these books into the world. Right now, donations are being matched up to $7,000, and we’re thankful for any support that helps us carry this work into 2026: give.classy.org/AJBMatch

Swipe through to revisit some of the highlights from 2025. 💛

We’re excited to share book tour dates for Andrés Cerpa’s THE PALACE, starting with a launch at Books Are Magic on Janua...
12/27/2025

We’re excited to share book tour dates for Andrés Cerpa’s THE PALACE, starting with a launch at Books Are Magic on January 20, 2026, and featuring stops at KGB, Joe’s Pub, the University of Pittsburgh, and AWP! We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate this stunning new collection.

And if you’d like a copy waiting for you at the launch, Books Are Magic is also offering signed, personalized preorders through January 13.

📍 Tour details are on the graphic
🔗 Preorder link: tinyurl.com/PalaceMagic

📣 Registration is now open for our 1-day generative masterclass with Shara McCallum and Brian Turner on Saturday, Februa...
12/22/2025

📣 Registration is now open for our 1-day generative masterclass with Shara McCallum and Brian Turner on Saturday, February 28, 2026!

This virtual workshop runs from 12–7pm EST and includes a bonus publishing Q&A with AJB’s Carey Salerno.

Registration is open now through February 23, and we’d love to have you join us.
🔗 Sign up at alicejamesbooks.org/masterclass.

You can also “Sponsor a Spot” by contributing $250 to help make this opportunity accessible to poets who may not otherwise be able to attend.
💓 Learn more at https://tinyurl.com/sponsoraspot

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Books Are Magic on a special preorder offer for National Book Award finalist Andrés...
12/16/2025

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Books Are Magic on a special preorder offer for National Book Award finalist Andrés Cerpa’s THE PALACE, forthcoming January 20, 2026 🌟 Preorder by January 13th to receive your signed, personalized copy of the book.

A lovely way to support an indie and get something meaningful from Andrés at the same time 💓

🔗 Preorder at https://tinyurl.com/PalaceMagic

So excited and honored that THE SEEDS by Cecily Parks is an NPR 2025 pick, with Craig Morgan Teicher calling the poems...
12/03/2025

So excited and honored that THE SEEDS by Cecily Parks is an NPR 2025 pick, with Craig Morgan Teicher calling the poems “dark, lavish, far-reaching and subtly layered.” 🌱🪻
🔗 More at https://tinyurl.com/59zwuc6f

For the first time ever, a generous friend of AJB is matching every donation up to $7,000.This support goes directly t...
12/02/2025

For the first time ever, a generous friend of AJB is matching every donation up to $7,000.
This support goes directly toward the work we do every day—publishing bold new voices, building space for poets, offering resources, and keeping our literary community alive.

If you’d like to be part of this work, here are a few ways you can get involved:
💓Make a direct donation (matched dollar-for-dollar)
→ give.classy.org/AJBMatch
📖sponsor a spot in our upcoming masterclass
→ tinyurl.com/sponsoraspot
📚Purchase—or gift!—a Subscribe + 100 subscription
→ tinyurl.com/subscribeplus100

Every contribution makes a real difference 💛

Join us for a night of poetry! 🌙Tuesday, Dec 2nd, Ally Ang will read from their newly released debut, LET THE MOON WOBBL...
11/25/2025

Join us for a night of poetry! 🌙

Tuesday, Dec 2nd, Ally Ang will read from their newly released debut, LET THE MOON WOBBLE, at Green Apple Books on the Park with Sagaree Jain & Giovanna Lomanto! This event is free & open to the public—masks and RSVPs are both encouraged. Learn more at https://tinyurl.com/bdhtsp5x 💛

📆 Tuesday, December 2, 2025
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Green Apple Books on the Park (Inner Sunset)

Alice James Books is grateful to share that we’ve been awarded $30,000 in general operating support from the Poetry Foun...
11/20/2025

Alice James Books is grateful to share that we’ve been awarded $30,000 in general operating support from the Poetry Foundation 💛

At a time when so many indie presses are navigating an exceedingly difficult financial landscape, this support provides vital stability and allows us to continue our mission of championing innovative poetry that inspires, and above all, matters.

🔗 More at the link in our bio!

We’re thrilled to share this beautiful NPR review of THE SEEDS by Cecily Parks! ✨Craig Morgan Teicher calls the poems “d...
11/19/2025

We’re thrilled to share this beautiful NPR review of THE SEEDS by Cecily Parks! ✨

Craig Morgan Teicher calls the poems “dark, lavish, far-reaching and subtly layered."

🔗 Read the full review at https://tinyurl.com/2vnhc7k2
🌱 Order THE SEEDS now at bit.ly/the-s33ds

We’re excited to share another bit of early praise for A HOLY DREAD by R. A. Villanueva, forthcoming in February 2026! I...
11/14/2025

We’re excited to share another bit of early praise for A HOLY DREAD by R. A. Villanueva, forthcoming in February 2026! In this starred review, Publishers Weekly celebrates the collection as “a dynamic book of witness, resistance, and radical hope.”

Check out the review: https://tinyurl.com/43xt4tn9
This book is available for preorder at bit.ly/HolyDread 💓

We’re over the moon to celebrate the release of Ally Ang’s LET THE MOON WOBBLE, out today—11/11! A serendipitous pub dat...
11/11/2025

We’re over the moon to celebrate the release of Ally Ang’s LET THE MOON WOBBLE, out today—11/11! A serendipitous pub date for this luminous poetry debut 🌙

In poems born of intense loneliness, grief, anger, and uncertainty amid a convergence of apocalypses—a raging pandemic, a worsening climate crisis, and numerous global uprisings—LET THE MOON WOBBLE asks and seeks to answer the question: What makes the end of the world worth surviving?

“Ang’s debut volume of poems is a tour de force of passion, longing, and loneliness … An important new poet to watch and read.” —Library Journal

✨ Available now at bit.ly/moonwobble, and wherever books are sold.

📚 “Villanueva is a gifted poet, and his new collection is sure to appeal to many readers.”—Library JournalThank you to S...
11/11/2025

📚 “Villanueva is a gifted poet, and his new collection is sure to appeal to many readers.”
—Library Journal

Thank you to Sarah Michaelis for a luminous Library Journal review of A HOLY DREAD by R. A. Villanueva, winner of the 2024 Alice James Award! Forthcoming in February 2026, the book is praised as “full of heart,” blending public grief, tenderness, and the enduring beauties of family and heritage. ✨

🔗 More at https://tinyurl.com/holydread-LJ

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Alice James Books publishes the best contemporary poetry by both established and emerging writers. The press is an affiliate of the University of Maine at Farmington.