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.

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

We’re so excited to share the book tour dates celebrating LET THE MOON WOBBLE by Ally Ang! Join us at a stop near you 🌙R...
11/10/2025

We’re so excited to share the book tour dates celebrating LET THE MOON WOBBLE by Ally Ang! Join us at a stop near you 🌙

Releasing tomorrow, 11/11, this electric debut explores connection, grief, and the resilience of q***r joy amid converging apocalypses.

Events include (but are not limited to!) Ally's book launch at and stops at and , with special guests Chen Chen, Asa Drake, fellow Alice James poet Jane Wong (How Not to Be Afraid of Everything), and more.

More info:
ℹ️ bit.ly/AllyAng-Events (LINK IN BIO)
📖 bit.ly/moonwobble ← Order your copy!

AJB’s 2026 Holiday Gift Guide celebrates poetry that endures—bringing together new releases, signature titles, and limit...
11/05/2025

AJB’s 2026 Holiday Gift Guide celebrates poetry that endures—bringing together new releases, signature titles, and limited-time holiday bundles from across our list 📚

Discounts will be applied automatically at checkout through December 7. Place your orders early to ensure your books arrive in time for the holidays!

Looking for something that lasts all year? Our Year of Books and Season of Books subscriptions can also be gifted, bringing 5–11 poetry titles to your recipient (or your own doorstep!) throughout 2026.

Swipe through to explore our offerings, then tap the link to shop: https://bit.ly/AJBHolidays✨

🌟 Huge congratulations to our very own Genevieve Hartman, one of Publishers Weekly’s Star Watch 2025 honorees! 🌟PW recog...
11/03/2025

🌟 Huge congratulations to our very own Genevieve Hartman, one of Publishers Weekly’s Star Watch 2025 honorees! 🌟

PW recognized 36 emerging publishing talents this year—and we couldn’t be prouder to see Gena celebrated for her creativity, kindness, and the vision that she brings to Alice James Books.

Read the full feature on Publishers Weekly: https://bit.ly/4qHzJqC

🌟 Catch us at the 30th Annual Texas Book Festival in downtown Austin! 🌟AJB poets Cecily Parks and Iain Haley Po***ck wil...
10/30/2025

🌟 Catch us at the 30th Annual Texas Book Festival in downtown Austin! 🌟

AJB poets Cecily Parks and Iain Haley Po***ck will each appear in poetry events throughout the weekend—sharing the stage with acclaimed poets including Donika Kelly, Douglas Kearney, Rachel Richardson, and more. Join them in the Poetry Tent!

📅 November 8–9, 2025
📍 Downtown Austin
🎟️ Free & open to all!
🔗 Full schedule: https://texasbookfestival.org/schedule/

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“‘I would hope that people reading this book kind of feel the quality of attention that’s possible just in our daily liv...
10/29/2025

“‘I would hope that people reading this book kind of feel the quality of attention that’s possible just in our daily lives,’” says poet Cecily Parks in her interview with K*T 90.5 Austin on THE SEEDS—a decade-in-the-making exploration of home, nature, and motherhood 🌱📚

🔗Listen and read the full conversation: https://bit.ly/4oGj3xU

“The traumas of racial prejudice are met with poise and thoughtfulness, even humor, in Iain Haley Po***ck’s third collec...
10/20/2025

“The traumas of racial prejudice are met with poise and thoughtfulness, even humor, in Iain Haley Po***ck’s third collection, ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES. [Po***ck] moves nimbly from Michael Jackson’s lyrics to American lynchings, from quarterbacks to police brutality.” —The Washington Post

We’re thrilled to see "On a Different Day” from Iain Haley Po***ck’s ALL THE POSSIBLE BODIES featured by the Washington Post Book Club! Huge thanks to Ron Charles for selecting this poem. The collection is available now wherever books are sold — click the link in our bio to get your copy 💛

📚 “Ang's debut volume of poems is a tour de force of passion, longing, and loneliness … An important new poet to watch a...
10/16/2025

📚 “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

We’re over the moon to see LET THE MOON WOBBLE by Ally Ang recognized by Karla Huston and Library Journal as a standout 2025 debut. Don’t miss this powerful first collection from a poet to watch 🌙

🔗 More at https://tinyurl.com/3bd2h9mx

⏰ Last call! The 2026 closes TOMORROW, October 17. We’re accepting previously unpublished poetry manuscripts between 4...
10/16/2025

⏰ Last call! The 2026 closes TOMORROW, October 17.

We’re accepting previously unpublished poetry manuscripts between 48–100 pages.

🌟 We welcome work from poets at every stage of their careers.
🔗 Submit by 11:59 PM EST via the link in our bio!

We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of Cecily Parks’ newest poetry collection, THE SEEDS, out now! 🌿THE SEEDS confro...
10/15/2025

We’re thrilled to celebrate the release of Cecily Parks’ newest poetry collection, THE SEEDS, out now! 🌿

THE SEEDS confronts the ecological paradox of homemaking in an environment domesticity rejects—one of mess, disease, and everyday violence—to explore the mix of distress and delight found in caring for a family, a new home, and the earth that sustains them.

Looking to more-than-human guides with an open mind and heart, Parks’ third book is a collection of unconventional contemporary environmental histories, in which places become biological and emotional primers for those who will inherit them.

“Women and the natural world take center stage in these precise and visionary poems by Parks (O’Nights) ... Parks memorably evokes the textures and intricacies of life on earth.” —Publishers Weekly

✨ Available now at bit.ly/the-s33ds!

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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.