Black Lawrence Press
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Bottom Feeders
$17.95 Add to cartA vibrant and gritty debut from poet Arielle Hebert, Bottom Feeders is a queer coming-of-age collection set in late 2000s Florida, during the height of the opioid epidemic. Here, overdoses, red tide b… [more below]
- Author: Hebert, Arielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1625572190
- Language: English
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The Earth Room
$17.95 Add to cartThe Earth Room transports us from the forests of Appalachia to the Sonoran Desert to the glaciers of Iceland, all while exploring the mysteries of what it means to be alive.
In one story, a woman tra- Author: Diehl, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1625573006
- Language: English
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Pentimento
$17.95 Add to cartFrom an Italian word meaning “to repent,” a pentimento is an instance in painting when traces of an artist’s earlier decisions or mistakes are visible through the final layer(s) of paint. Using modes
- Author: Garcia, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1625570678
- Language: English
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Now I’m Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2024 St. Lawrence Book Award
Now I’m Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself is a collection of ten playfully strange and unsettling stories, some realistic and some surreal. The char- Author: Rosenberg, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1625572174
- Language: English
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This Is How the Bone Sings
$16.95 Add to cart“THIS IS HOW THE BONE SINGS by W. Todd Kaneko carries the pulse of ancient lament through the boneyards of war and unspeakable trauma. This lyric collection of profound beauty and grief reminds us to
- Author: Kaneko, W. Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1625578180
- Language: English
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Worth Burning
$17.95 Add to cartA searing portrait of survival, Worth Burning traces a boy’s journey from a turbulent Southern childhood–marked by parental abuse, death, and hidden queerness–through the AIDS crisis, a marriage of … [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Mickie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 162557181X
- Language: English
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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
$25.95 Add to cartStylish, smart, and big-hearted, Cyan Magenta Yellow Black lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint Paul of December of 1993, just before the internet changed everything. It’s a place where friendships … [more below]
- Author: Fenton, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571968
- Language: English
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Esquire Ball, Stories from the Great Black Swamp
$17.95 Add to cartWith a nod to Borges, Kafka, and Daphne du Maurier, Esquire Ball, Stories from the Great Black Swamp is a Midwestern gothic collection of thirteen linked stories in which a young female attorney disco… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Lisa Slage
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1625571801
- Language: English
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Talking with Boys
$17.95 Add to cartIn a collection of linked tales filled with irony, humor, and magic, Talking with Boys introduces an unforgettable cast of characters in the Pakistani diaspora in Houston navigating crises of their ow… [more below]
- Series: Immigrant Writing
- Author: Kanwal, Tayyba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1625571798
- Language: English
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Python with a Dog Inside It
$19.95 Add to cartSet on the marshlands of working-class southern New Jersey, Python with a Dog Inside It, the debut collection by poet Max McDonough, traces the tangled story of two gay brothers as they endeavor to su… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571755
- Language: English
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Writing as a Way of Life: A Book about Art, Craft, and Devotion
$25.95 Add to cartIn Writing as a Way of Life: A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion, novelist and memoirist Brian Morton (Starting Out in the Evening) provides writers with a guidebook for finding the psychic equipmen… [more below]
- Author: Morton, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571771
- Language: English
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Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive
$19.95 Add to cartThe Japanese word ‘ koan’ is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding. Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive is a vibrant, … [more below]
- Author: Cagney, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571623
- Language: English
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Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
$16.95 Add to cart“A combination of the mystical, magical, and marvelous, Sequoia Nagamatsu weaves a collection of bold, hysterical, and moving tales into an unforgettable debut. From shape-shifters, to star-makers, to
- Author: Nagamatsu, Sequoia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1625579446
- Language: English
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The Stone Sister
$25.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Big Moose Prize
Spanning the mid to late 20th century and set in the Elkhorn Valley of southwestern Montana, The Stone Sister is told from three points of view – a father’s, a nurse’
- Author: Patterson, Caroline E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1625570244
- Language: English
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Here in the Night
$21.95 Add to cartThe thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz’s debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced.
With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, HERE IN TH
- Author: Turkewitz, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: July 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570570
- Language: English
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Hood Vacations
$16.95 Add to cartMichal ” MJ” Jones’ debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling – an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional na… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Michal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: January 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570449
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Midwest
$19.95 Add to cartA Brief History of the Midwest is a lyric encapsulation of the hardship and hope of the American Midwest.
- Author: Grace, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571585
- Language: English
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Dyke (Geology)
$9.95 Add to cartThrough intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a smal… [more below]
- Author: Imbler, Sabrina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1625577168
- Language: English
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Sidework
$21.95 Add to cartSasha Hom’s Sidework is a lyric, page-turning novella about a homeless Korean adoptee and mother of four. During her busy Sunday shift waiting tables, her customers–rock stars, locals, and the Grim R… [more below]
- Author: Hom, Sasha Wol-Soon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571569
- Language: English
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Birth Center in Corporate Woods
$19.95 Add to cartThe poems in BJ Soloy’s Birth Center in Corporate Woods use long, contorting lines and elliptical connections to wade through the collisions of love, eros, loss, irony, pop culture, and late capitalis… [more below]
- Author: Soloy, Bj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571550
- Language: English
