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EXPOSITION by Nathalie Léger, translated by Amanda DeMarco, “sets the story of a female artist against the background of her own life and research.” From Dorothy, a publishing project and our #WomensHistoryMonth reading list: dorothyproject.com/book/expositio…

The essays in Barbara Jane Reyes’s WANNA PEEK INTO MY NOTEBOOK? NOTES ON PINAY LIMINALITY (Paloma Press) model what it means “to care rigorously about craft, and to craft religiously a genuine care for community.” Read for #WomensHistoryMonth! palomapress.org/wanna-peek-int…

Be sure to browse our latest roundup for excellent new indie literature! Featuring fiction, poetry & nonfiction from @ScrawlPlace, @RedHenPress, @GraywolfPress, @catalyst_press, @SundressPub, @SFWP, @fifthwheelpress, @CavanKerryPress, @SlantBooks & more: clmp.org/news/books-lau…

Read @tupelopress poetry for #WomensHistoryMonth! Karen An-hwei Lee’s THE BEAUTIFUL IMMUNITY is “a quartet of motifs about faith and witness in an age of crisis, divided into four sections.” tupelopress.org/bookstore/p/th…

“& she was so afraid for my life when I brought up transitioning. I had a trans friend once she said; the medicine she took to become a woman ate her bones.” —Angel Leal’s poem in Epistemic Literary & our #WomensHistoryMonth list epistemiclit.com/current-issue/…

According to Michele Sharpe, Joan Larkin’s “elegant turns to the lyric mode disregard time but preserve memory.” Read OLD STRANGER, from Alice James Books, for #WomensHistoryMonth: alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/old-…

Jamie Hood’s essay in @thedrift_mag begins, “After sexual assault allegations against author Neil Gaiman resurfaced in January, ‘Red Scare’ host Anna Khachiyan wrote: ‘Are we really still doing this?’” From our #WomensHistoryMonth reading list: thedriftmag.com/anti-anti-rape/

We're still over the moon that @Jlynndanger's upcoming memoir, NO HEROIC MEASURES, was featured in @CLMPorg's Reading List for #WomensHistoryMonth! buff.ly/6FzUKdh Preorder NO HEROIC MEASURES right here: buff.ly/TYoHKno

Marjorie Agosín’s THE WHITE ISLANDS / LAS ISLAS BLANCAS, published by @SwanIslePress and translated by Jacqueline Nanfito, is “a poetic journey through the islands of the Mediterranean.” Read poetry for #WomensHistoryMonth: swanislepress.com/?gs_bookshowca…

Chelsie Blair Nunn’s GIVE ME A HOLLER (Tofu Ink Arts Press) is a “poetic memoir set in the backroads of East Tennessee where wild packs of dogs, waterfalls, and the sweetest snakes await at every turn.” From our #WomensHistoryMonth list: bookshop.org/a/500/97819586…

“You are sitting in the University of Tennessee’s aquatic center parking lot, waiting for Jane to finish swim practice. She is twelve…” —Marah Robyn Hoffman’s poem “Alma Mater,” in Strange Hymnal & our #WomensHistoryMonth reading list strangehymnal.com/volumes/2025/i…

Karen Kovacik’s PORTABLE CITY is “primarily a travelogue composed of introspections on movement through both the physical world and nonlinear timelines.” From @HangingLooseNY & our #WomensHistoryMonth list: hangingloosepress.com/book/portable-…

Harvest is the inaugural issue of Quill of the Goddess, a magazine publishing writers “whose works evoke all aspects of the sacred feminine.” Pick up the issue this #WomensHistoryMonth! quillofthegoddess.com/current-issue

This #WomensHistoryMonth, read poetry from @Noemi_Press! The poems in Megan Kaminski’s GENTLEWOMEN explore “personal and historical trauma, bonds between mothers and sisters, and our estrangement from the natural world and from ourselves.” noemipress.org/catalog/poetry…

“‘Do you have anything to induce a period?’ I asked the pharmacist behind the clear plastic screen.” —Veronica Zora Kirin in the essay “Period,” from Unbordered Magazine & our #WomensHistoryMonth list unborderedmag.com/issues

In SING ME A CIRCLE, Samina Najmi “navigates the process of forging her identity as a professor and mother” while “her extended family inspires, haunts, and stirs her to action.” Nonfiction from @triohousepress for #WomensHistoryMonth! triohousepress.myshopify.com/products/pre-o…

“In the beginning, She took off Her clothes. She laid down into the cold and quiet of empty space, into the vacuum that burned Her skin and stole Her heat.” Read Loria Harris’s story “The Snake” in Oyster River Pages for #WomensHistoryMonth: oysterriverpages.com/the-snake

Soon Jones’s THESE AREN’T MY WOODS ANYMORE “captures the experience of living as a mixed-race, queer, Asian American from the rural South.” Read poetry from Poetose for #WomensHistoryMonth: poetose.com/store/p16/thes…

“In 1969, as the summer of love spiraled into the screaming peak of hurricane season, a Cat 5 called Camille detonated the Gulf Coast…” —Camille Louise Goering’s essay “Spin Cycle” in @arrowsmithpress #WomensHistoryMonth arrowsmithpress.com/journal/spin-c…

The poems in Tatiana Johnson-Boria’s NOCTURNE IN JOY (@SundressPub) “collapse the distance between private and collective despair, familial and world-historical violence, mundane and metaphysical relief.” Read for #WomensHistoryMonth! sundress-publications.square.site/product/noctur…