Last updated March 28, 2023
We are actively looking for people to write for Heavy Feather—and we cover books that aren’t on our list below—so reach out to Books Editor Jeff Chon if you’re interested in reviewing books, interviewing authors, or pitching another type of project. We only publish interviews and reviews online. We encourage 800 words per book review. There are no word count restrictions for interviews or general criticism, however. Craft essays are welcome. Reviewers receive hard copies of the book if available.
If you’re a publicist, author, or publisher and want to tell us about your book, please also email Jeff.
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Fiction
The Kirschbaum Lectures / Seth Rogoff / Sagging Meniscus Press / 300 pp.
Daughters of Muscadine / Monic Ductan / University Press of Kentucky / 144 pp.
The Proprietor’s Song / Janet Goldberg / Regal House Publishing / 178 pp.
Pure Cosmos Club / Matthew Binder / Stalking Horse Press / 272 pp.
Excursion 39 / Michael Gerard / 133 pp.
AFTER ALL / Michael Gerard / Sweat Drenched Press / 120 pp.
The Bystanders / Dawn Major / Moonshine Cove Publishing / 216 pp.
The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs / George Singleton / Dzanc Books / 256 pp.
From the Longing Orchard / Jessica Jopp / Red Hen Press / 320 pp.
The Geography of First Kisses / Karin Cecile Davidson / Kallisto Gaia Press
You Should Have Known / Rebecca A. Keller / Crooked Lane Books / 320 pp.
Painting through the Dark / Gemma Whelan / Adelaide Books
Sita in Exile / Rashi Rohatgi / Miami University Press
The Flounder / John Fulton / Blackwater Press / 168 pp.
Salvage / Richard Kearney / Arrowsmith Press / 296 pp.
At the Edge of the Woods / Kathryn Bromwich / Two Dollar Radio / 220 pp.
The Flower in the Skull / Kathleen Alcalá / Raven Chronicles Press / 176 pp.
A Book, Untitled / Shushan Avagyan / Awst Press / Translated by Deanna Cachoian-Schanz
Hope for the Worst / Kate Brandt / Vine Leaves Press / 326 pp.
The Auburn Conference / Tom Piazza / University of Iowa Press / 200 pp.
POLO / Jinwoo / Expat Press
Dangerous Blues / Stephen Policoff / Flexible Press / 257 pp.
South / Babak Lakghomi / Dundurn Press
Love Chronicles of the Octopodes / Karen An-hwei Lee / Ellipsis Press
As It Falls / Donald Breckenridge / Ellipsis Press
THE NOBODIES / Alanna Schubach / Blackstone Publishing
I, Caustic / Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine / Litmus Press / Translated by Jake Syersak / 168 pp.
The Whore / Márcia Barbieri / Sublunary Editions / Translated by Adrian Minckley / 162 pp.
The Ballad of Buttery Cake Ass / Aug Stone / Stone Soup
Owlish / Dorothy Tse / Graywolf Press / 224 pp.
Fat Time and Other Stories / Jeffery Renard Allen / Graywolf Press / 228 pp.
Dog on Fire / Terese Svoboda / University of Nebraska Press / 188 pp.
Switchboard Rot / Michael Gerard / Anxiety Press / 123 pp.
Dioramas / Blair Austin / Dzanc Books
Only and Ever This / J.A. Tyler / Dzanc Books / 208 pp.
The Middle Daughter / Chika Unigwe / Dzanc Books
Hallucinated City / Mário de Andrade / Sublunary Editions / Translated by Jack E. Tomlins / 166 pp.
Funeral / Daisuke Shen & Vi Khi Nao / KERNPUNKT Press
Skeletal Lights from Afar / Forrest Roth / What Books Press / 210 pp.
The Mouth Is a Coven / Liz Worth / Manta Press / 222 pp.
Some of Them Will Carry Me / Giada Scodellaro / Dorothy, a publishing project / 184 pp.
Bark On / Mason Boyles / Driftwood Press
Newborn / Agustín Maes / Whiskey Tit / 112 pp.
Almost Deadly, Almost Good / Alice Kaltman / Word West Press
Bellamonia / John Schertzer / Spuyten Duyvil / 226 pp.
Last of the Better Days Ahead / Charlie Parr / Ramshackle Press
Ink / Angela Woodward / University Press of Kentucky / 152 pp.
After the Rapture / Nancy Stohlman / Mason Jar Press
The Glassmaker’s Wife / Lee Martin / Dzanc Books / 216 pp.
The Circle That Fits / Kevin Lichty / Driftwood Press / 145 pp.
Headless World, or, The Problem of Time / Ascher/Straus / McPherson & Company / 336 pp.
Sorcererer / Jace Brittain / Schism Neuronics / 138 pp.
Letting the House Go / Robert Crooke / Unsolicited Press / 350 pp.
Melancholic Parables / Dale Stromberg / 182 pp.
Gatherings / Mehreen Ahmed / Bridge House Publishing / 280 pp.
In Search of the Magic Theater / Karla Huebner / Regal House Publishing
The Enhancers / Anne K. Yoder / Meekling Press / 340 pp.
We Are All Together / Richard Fulco / Wampus Multimedia / 233 pp.
Unknowing, I Sink / Timothy G. Huguenin
A Season Unknown / Keith Cohen / k + p press / 318 pp.
Ebb / Grant Maierhofer / KERNPUNKT Press
Desperado Days / X.C. Atkins / TRNSFR Books / 248 pp.
Poetry
Vesuvio / Losarc Raal, Tamas Panitz, & Joel Newberger / New Books / 200 pp.
Red Ocher / Jessica Poli / University of Arkansas Press / 96 pp.
Excursive / Elizabeth Robinson / Roof Books / 140 pp.
Death of the Party / Homeless / Gob Pile Press
Sage / Marilyn Chin / W. W. Norton & Company / 128 pp.
Dear Outsiders / Jenny Sadre-Orafai / University of Akron Press
I Can Wonder Anything / Terence Degnan / Finishing Line Press
Buffalo Girl / Jessica Q. Stark / BOA Editions / 128 pp.
The Court of No Record / Jenny Molberg / LSU Press / 90 pp.
Grace Engine / Joshua Burton / University of Wisconsin Press / 128 pp.
Stridentist Poems / Manuel Maples Arce / World Poetry Books / 172 pp. / Translated by KM Cascia
On Centaurs & Other Poems / Zuzanna Ginczanka / World Poetry Books / 256 pp. / Translated by Alex Braslavsky
The Loveliest Vowel Empties / Meret Oppenheim / World Poetry Books / 128 pp. / Translated by Kathleen Heil
The Dug-Up Gun Museum / Matt Donovan / BOA Editions
Fulgurite / Catherine Kyle / Cornerstone Press / 104 pp.
In the Hour of War / Edited by Ilya Kaminsky & Carolyn Forché / Arrowsmith Press
A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails / Halyna Kruk / Arrowsmith Press / Translated by Amelia Glaser & Yulia Ilchuk
Today Is a Different War / Lyudmyla Khersonska / Arrowsmith Press / Translated by Olga Livshin, Andrew Janco, Maya Chhabra, & Lev Fridman
The Burning World / Sherod Santos / Arrowsmith Press / 62 pp.
Memorial with Liminal Space / Mitchell Untch / Driftwood Press / 140 pp.
OxyContin for Breakfast / Kurt Coke Eidsvig / The Main Street Rag / 96 pp.
So Much for Life / Mark Hyatt / Nightboat Books / 224 pp.
motherworld / Destiny Hemphill / Action Books / 96 pp.
Something Evergreen Called Life / Rania Mamoun / Action Books / 60 pp. / Translated by Yasmine Seale
Zakwato & Loglêdou’s Peril / Azo Vauguy / Action Books / 224 pp. / Translated by Todd Fredson
Every Transmission / Adam Deutsch / Fernwood Press / 94 pp.
Hold What Makes You Whole / Marcus Amaker / Free Verse Press / 202 pp.
Pink Noise / Kevin Holden / Nightboat Books / 120 pp.
Lilith Walks / Susan M. Schultz / BlazeVOX [books] / 104 pp.
Notes from the Passenger / Gillian Conoley / Nightboat Books / 104 pp.
Songs in E—— / Dan Brady / TRNSFR Books / 80 pp.
Swallowing the Light / John Schneider / Kelsay Books / 100 pp.
Sex Depression Animals / Mag Gabbert / Mad Creek / 94 pp.
Love Letters from an Arsonist / David van den Berg / April Gloaming / 100 pp.
Tropical Sacrifice / Lucas de Lima / Birds, LLC
Melody in Exile / S.T. Brant / Atmosphere Press / 115 pp.
Gravity / Ari Lohr / Gutslut Press / 108 pp.
CRUEL/CRUEL / Dior J. Stephens / Nightboat Books / 88 pp.
Hydra Medusa / Brandon Shimoda / Nightboat Books / 144 pp.
Doom Scroll / Matthew Guentte / University of Akron Press
The Kingdom of Surfaces / Sally Wen Mao / Graywolf Press / 112 pp.
Kneel Said the Night / Margo Berdehevsky / Sundress Publications
I Never Learned to Pray / Estelle Bajou / The Main Street Rag / 44 pp.
Almost an Elegy / Linda Pastan / W. W. Norton & Company / 144 pp.
Shopping, or The End of Time / Emily Bludworth de Barrios / University of Wisconsin Press / 104 pp.
Gebir / Walter Savage Landor / Sublunary Editions / 212 pp.
The Collected Works of Emanuel Carnevali, Volume 1 / Edited by Joshua Rothes / Sublunary Editions / 428 pp.
The Collected Works of Emanuel Carnevali, Volume 2 / Edited by Joshua Rothes / Sublunary Editions / 402 pp.
THIRDOUROBOROS / Richard Kostelanetz / NYQ Books / 144 pp.
New Singapore Poetries / Edited by Marylyn Tan & Jee Leong Koh / Gaudy Boy / 350 pp.
Talk Smack to a Hurricane / Lynne Jensen Lampe / Ice Floe Press / 60 pp.
MOPES / Kenneth Reveiz / FENCE / 88 pp.
No Further Than the End of the Street / Benjamin Niespodziany / Okay Donkey
Know Thy Audience / Nadia de Vries / MOIST
Goddesses of Water / Jeannette L. Clariond / Translated by Samantha Schnee / 224 pp.
John Scotus Eriugena at Laon & Other Poems / Jacques Darras / World Poetry Books / Translated by Richard Sieburth / 152 pp.
Cover Songs / Jordan Stempleman / The Blue Turn / 110 pp.
My Aunt’s Abortion / Jane Rosenberg LaForge / BlazeVOX [books] / 92 pp.
Almost Obscene / Raúl Gómez Jattin / Cleveland State University Poetry Center / Translated by Katherine M. Hedeen & Olivia Lot / 132 pp.
Innocence / Michael Joseph Walsh / Cleveland State University Poetry Center / 128 pp.
Coloratura on a Silence Found in Many Expressive Systems / Alice Fulton / W. W. Norton & Company / 128 pp.
The Nameless / Brandi George / KERNPUNKT Press
Seeing Voices / Kelly Sargent / Kelsay Books / 36 pp.
No Way in the Skin without This Bloody Embrace / Jean D’Amérique / Ugly Duckling Presse / Translated by Conor Bracken / 120 pp.
To Love an Island / Ana Portnoy Brimmer / YesYes Books / 126 pp.
Refusenik / Lynn Melnick / YesYes Books / 112 pp.
Nonfiction
Collected Essays / Michael Gottlieb / CHAX / 246 pp.
Existential Thirst Trap / Robert Dean / Big Laugh Comedy / 162 pp.
FEVER / Shilo Niziolek / Querencia Press / 172 pp.
Dark Days / Roger Reeves / Graywolf Press / 232 pp.
Scream / Michael J. Seidlinger / Bloomsbury Academic / 136 pp.
To love an artist / Valerie Hsiung / Essay Press
Weaving Language I / Francesca Capone / Essay Press
Ordinary Wonder Tales / Emily Urquhart / Biblioasis / 240 pp.
The Veil between Two Worlds / Christina Vo / She Writes Press / 256 pp.
Unbound / Aaron Shurin / Nightboat Books / 144 pp.
I/I / Katherine Indermaur / Seneca Review Books
Proximity / Sam Heaps / CLASH Books
Nothing Special / Dianne Bilyak / Wesleyan University Press / 208 pp.
We the Parasites / A. V. Marraccini / Sublunary Editions / 148 pp.
Look to Your Left / Kristina Marie Darling / University of Akron Press
Without Saints / Christopher Locke / Black Lawrence Press
Mauled / Crosbie Cotton & Jeremy Evans / Rocky Mountain Books / 192 pp.
Lights to Guide Me Home / Meghan J. Ward / Rocky Mountain Books / 320 pp.
Pages from a Broken Diary / Toti O’Brien / Pski’s Porch Publishing / 181 pp.
Slenderman / Kathleen Hale / Grove Atlantic / 368 pp.
Neither Weak Nor Obtuse / Jake Goldsmith / Sagging Meniscus Press / 140 pp.
O / Tammy Nguyen / Ugly Duckling Presse / 144 pp.
Does It Hurt? / Kaleena Madruga / Folly X.O. / 180 pp.
Comics
My Life in Fish / Gary D. Grossman
Hungry Ghost / Victoria Ying / Macmillan/First Second / 208 pp.
Pet Peeves / Nicole Goux / Avery Hill Publishing / 104 pp.
Macbeth / K. Briggs / Avery Hill Publishing / 180 pp.
Big Ugly / Ellice Weaver / Avery Hill Publishing / 100 pp.
Sleeping While Standing / Taki Soma / Avery Hill Publishing
Sennen / Shanti Rai / Avery Hill Publishing / 100 pp.
Methods of Dyeing / B. Mure / Avery Hill Publishing / 92 pp.
Lights, Planets, People! / Molly Naylor & Lizzy Stewart / Avery Hill Publishing / 128 pp.
Chapbooks + Mixed Genres
Genesis / Calamari Archive, Ink. / 124 pp.
Wing Strokes Haiku / Amy Losak & Sydell Rosenberg / Kelsay Books / 36 pp.
The Book of I.P. / Chris Courtney Martin / Alien Buddha Press / 65 pp.
The Butter House / Sarah Gerard / Conium Press / 61 pp.
Root Rot / Rhienna Renée Guedry / Cooper Dillon Books / 35 pp.
Five Conversations about Peter Sellers / Elizabeth Gonzalez James / Texas A&M University Press / 68 pp.
The Body Problem / Margaret Wack / Orison Books / 38 pp.
Maybe This Is What I Deserve / Tucker Leighty-Phillips / Split/Lip Press
Testament / Luke Hankins / TRP: The University Press of SHSU / 32 pp.
A Thousand Winters in Me / Shilo Niziolek / GASHER Press
When Ilium Burns / Tiffany Troy / Bottlecap Press / 44 pp.
Where Was I Again / Olivia Muenz / Essay Press
Santa Muerte, Santa Muerte / Lauren Brazeal Garza / Tram Editions
Prerecorded Weather / Matt McBride & Noah Falck / SurVision Books
This Body I Have Tried to Write / Ja’net Danielo / MAYDAY
Unearthingly / Julian Mithra / KERNPUNKT Press
Bath / Jen Silverman / Driftwood Press
May All Our Pain Be Champagne / Alex Carrigan / Alien Buddha Press
The Convert’s Heart Is Good to Eat / Melody S. Gee / Driftwood Press / 29 pp.
HIST / Matthew Klane & James Bellflower / Calamari Archive, Ink. / 66 pp.
The Mortality Shot / Julia Barclay / Liquid Cat Books
Dangerous Women / Jesi Bender / dancing girl press
Grapefruit & Snowman / Dalton Day / KERNPUNKT Press
Your Dark Meaning, Mouse / Stephen Moles / Sagging Meniscus Press / 134 pp.
Blood, Booze, and Other Things in Nature / C E Hoffman / Alien Buddha Press / 55 pp.
JFK Vs Predator / Stacey Levine & Chuk Baldock
Claustrophobia, Surprise! / Evan Williams / HAD
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