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Fiction
Coil Quake Rift / Nathan Elias / Montag Press / 276 pp.
Proof of Me & Other Stories / Erica Plouffe Lazure / New American Press / 252 pp.
Birth of Eros / Debra Di Blasi / KERNPUNKT Press
Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us / Lynn Mundell / Yemassee Journal
Permission / Marc Kristal / Atmosphere Press / 370 pp.
The Distortions / Christopher Linforth / Orison Books / 192 pp.
Mount Summer / Travis Dahlke / Out to Lunch Records / 163 pp.
Everything Is Totally Fine / Zac Smith / Muumuu House / 152 pp.
Paradise Close / Lisa Russ Spaar / Persea Books / 224 pp.
Begat Who Begat Who Begat / Marcus Pactor / Astrophil Press / 122 pp.
How Far I’ve Come / Kim Magowan / Gold Wake Press / 194 pp.
The Persistence of Instability / Patrick Trotti / Cowboy Jamboree Press / 261 pp.
Unearthingly / Julian Mithra / KERNPUNKT Press
Faith / Malarkey Books / Itoro Bassey
Enemy Combatant / David Winner / Outpost19 / 161 pp.
A Heaven of Their Choosing / Joann Smith / 7.13 Books / 167 pp.
Music Is Over! / Ben Arzate / Malarkey Books
The Other Ones / Dave Housley / Alansquire Publishing / 286 pp.
Now You Know It All / Joanna Pearson / University of Pittsburgh Press / 222 pp.
The New Existence / Michael Collins / University of Iowa Press / 144 pp.
JERKS / Sara Lippmann / Mason Jar Press / 154 pp.
Skin Elegies / Lance Olsen / Dzanc Books / 240 pp.
Nazaré / JJ Amaworo Wilson / PM Press / 301 pp.
Kanazawa by David Joiner / David Joiner / Stonebridge / 264 pp.
My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So Is Yours / Michael Chin / Cowboy Jamboree Press / 251 pp.
Reset / Pablo Pergola / Sagging Meniscus Press / 144 pp.
River Weather / Cameron Mackenzie / Alternating Current Press / 170 pp.
The Hubris of an Empty Hand / Mahyar A. Amouzegar / University of New Orleans Press / 302 pp.
Lovebirds / Hananah Zaheer / Bull City Press / 52 pp.
Lamentations / Carol Kammen / University of Nebraska Press / 264 pp.
When Me and God Were Little / Dzanc Books / Mads Nygaard / 262 pp.
Messiahs / Marc Anthony Richardson / FC2 / 158 pp.
Slim Confessions / Sarah Minor / Noemi Press / 100 pp.
A Girl Called Rumi / Ari Honarvar / Forest Avenue Press / 307 pp.
The Last Dinosaurs of Portland / James R. Gapinski / Bottlecap Press / 36 pp.
Hind’s Kidnap / Joseph McElroy / Dzanc Books / 602 pp.
Antique Densities / Jefferson Navicky / Deerbrook Editions / 106 pp.
Where the Sky Meets the Ocean… / Mike Kleine & Dan Hoy / TRNSFR Books / 136 pp.
Blackland / Richard A. Jones / Atmosphere Press / 298 pp.
The Boundaries of Their Dwelling / Blake Sanz / University of Iowa Press / 210 pp.
Shapeshifting / Michelle Ross / Stillhouse Press / 232 pp.
Red Is My Heart / Antoine Laurain / Belgravia Books / 192 pp.
The Best Peace Fiction / Edited by Robert Olen Butler & Phong Nguyen / University of New Mexico Press / 224 pp.
Poetry
Tropical Sacrifice / Lucas de Lima / Birds LLC
Time Regime / Jhani Randhawa / Gaudy Boy / 117 pp.
A Two Minute Forty Second Night / Steven Ray Smith / FutureCycle Press / 70 pp.
songs we used to dance to / Courtney Marie / Goliad Media
Colleen / Colleen Louise Barry / After Hours Editions
Equestrian Monuments / Luis Chaves / After Hours Editions / trans. Julia Guez & Samantha Zighelboim / 70 pp.
Dead Winter / Mantevi Yankelevich / Fonograf Editions
Out Beyond the Land / Kimberly Burwick / University of Chicago Press / 56 pp.
The Drowning House / John Sibley Williams / Elixir Press / 102 pp.
Her Wilderness Will Be Her Manners / Sarah Mangold / Fordham Press / 96 pp.
Plumstuff / Rolli / 8th House Publishing
I Failed to Swoon / Nadia de Vries / Dostoyevsky Wannabe / 60 pp.
Best Barbarian / Roger Reeves / W.W. Norton & Company / 120 pp.
The Real World / Emma Winsor Wood / BlazeVOX Books / 108 pp.
Someday the Plan of a Town / Todd Boss / W.W. Norton & Company / 104 pp.
Punks / John Keene / The Song Cave / 234 pp.
In Her Terms / Toti O’Brien / 100 pp.
The Many Beds of Martha Washington / Nance Van Winkel / Lynx House Press / 74 pp.
I Need Music / Anaïs Duplan / Action Books / 256 pp.
My Little Book of Exiles / Dan Alter / Black Spring Press Group / 108 pp.
To a New Era / Joanna Fuhrman / Hanging Loose Press / 116 pp.
when the signals come home / Jordan E. Franklin / Switchback Books / 60 pp.
Bloodwarm / Taylor Byas / Variant Lit / 34 pp.
Hospice Plastics / Rachel Hinton / Southeast Missouri State University Press / 86 pp.
Lifting Myself by My Own Toes / BD Feil / Finishing Line Press / 84 pp.
Baltimore Sons / Dean Bartoli Smith / Stillhouse Press / 128 pp.
We Are Invited to Climb / Andrew Yoon / Awst Press
Book of Levitations / Jenny Sadre-Orafai & Anne Champion / Trembling Pillow Press
The Forgotten World / Nick Courtright / Gold Wake Press / 88 pp.
On the Mesa / Edited by Ben Estes & Joel Weishaus / The Song Cave / 258 pp.
Nonfiction
Possums Run Amok / Lora Lafayette / Mercuria Press / 176 pp.
Notes from the Road / Mike Ingram / Awst Press
The True / Sarah Kornfield / Edita Integral / 304 pp.
Head Case / Alexis Orgera / Kore Press / 194 pp.
To Those Bounded / Donald Edem Quist / Awst Press / 204 pp.
Body Drop / Brian Oliu / University of North Carolina Press / 196 pp.
808s & Otherworlds / Sean Avery Medlin / Two Dollar Radio / 134 pp.
The Book of Fools / Sam Taylor / Negative Capability Press / 164 pp.
Final Fantasy VI / Sebastian Deken / Boss Fight Books / 122 pp.
The Angle of Flickering Light / Gina Troisi / Vine Leaves Press / 230 pp.
Comics
Nightmare Mode / Edited by Boss Fight Books / 136 pp.
Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine / Nick Francis Potter / Driftwood Press
Quiet Thoughts / Karen Shangguan / Avery Hill Publishing / 84 pp.
Methods of Dyeing / B. Mure / Avery Hill Publishing / 92 pp.
A Revolution in Three Acts / David Hajdu & John Carey / Columbia University Press / 176 pp.
Hyperthick #1 / Steve Aylett / Floating World Comics / 32 pp.
Lights, Planets, People! / Molly Naylor & Lizzy Stewart / Avery Hill Publishing / 128 pp.
Jinx Freeze by Hurk / Avery Hill Publishing / 128 pp.
Thoroughly Unclassifiable
Your Dark Meaning, Mouse / Stephen Moles / Sagging Meniscus Press / 134 pp.
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