Curbstone Press

  • It’s Important I Remember: Poems

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    An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America

    “History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes.” In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet’s ear for echo and

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    • Author: Charleston, Cortney Lamar
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 244
    • Publish Date: February 15 2026
    • ISBN10: 0810149648
    • Language: English
  • You Know Nothing: Stories

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    Questioning the roles of women’s bodies and the emotions that drive them in Madden’s debut story collection

    Following women and girls as they navigate everyday life in contemporary America, You Know

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    • Author: Madden, Yasmina Din
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 234
    • Publish Date: February 15 2026
    • ISBN10: 0810149664
    • Language: English
  • The Unreliable Tree: Poems

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    A luminous poetry collection that weaves together nature, family ties, and memory

    Born from a state of fragmented time, the poems in The Unreliable Tree call out the intimate feelings mothers so ofte

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    • Author: Kahn, Margot
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 68
    • Publish Date: September 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 0810148935
    • Language: English
  • Transanything: Essays

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    A debut essay collection that upends our notions of loneliness, wilderness, and liberation

    Transanything reveals a world in metamorphosis. A hermit crab retires its shell, lovers drift apart, and seas

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    • Author: Jones, Ever
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 170
    • Publish Date: August 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 0810148706
    • Language: English
  • Agrippina the Younger: Poems

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    A poetic journey through the past of the Roman Empress Agrippina looks toward the future

    Agrippina the Younger follows one woman’s study of another, separated by thousands of miles and two millennia b

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    • Author: Arterian, Diana
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 124
    • Publish Date: June 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 0810148412
    • Language: English
  • Returning to My Father’s Kitchen: Essays

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    A young Filipino writer’s odyssey toward home, in the wake of the loss of her poet father

    Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos d

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    • Author: Macansantos, Monica
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 165
    • Publish Date: May 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 0810148390
    • Language: English
  • Synthetic Jungle: Poems

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    A new poetry collection from award-winning author Michael Chang

    A vital breath of life arrives in American poetry with Synthetic Jungle, the latest collection from acclaimed poet Michael Chang. With

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    • Author: Chang, Michael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0810146215
    • Language: English
  • Cosmic Tantrum: Poems

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    A debut full-length poetry collection from Sarah Lyn Rogers rewriting girlhood and summoning mischief

    Sarah Lyn Rogers’s debut full-length collection is a tragicomic exploration of codependent and tra

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    • Author: Rogers, Sarah Lyn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: February 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 0810147939
    • Language: English
  • Traveling Freely: Essays

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    A poet’s debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Dominican American

    In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identit

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    • Author: Garcia, Roberto Carlos
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 0810147882
    • Language: English
  • Data Mind: Poems

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    Wrestling with the experience of living online as a non-digital native

    Joanna Fuhrman didn’t grow up online. Her generation entered the digital age as adults, with optimism about the possibilities it

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    • Author: Fuhrman, Joanna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 810147742
    • Language: English
  • My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women

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    An urgent exploration of caring and mothering on a planet in crisis

    In a swell of sea-linked essays, Christina Rivera explores the kinship between marine animals, humans, and Earth’s blue womb. River

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    • Author: Rivera, Christina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: March 15 2025
    • ISBN10: 0810148374
    • Language: English
  • The Day’s Hard Edge: Poems

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    A radically open interrogation of queer Chicano identity

    In his fourth poetry collection, Jos? Antonio Rodr?guez investigates how one constructs a relationship to the self, to community, and to poetr

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    • Author: Rodr?guez, Jos? Antonio
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: July 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 0810147254
    • Language: English
  • The Perfect Bastard: Poems

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    An innovative poetic interrogation of wrestling, queerness, and staying true to oneself

    Quinn Carver Johnson’s debut collection, The Perfect Bastard, follows its titular protagonist, a nonbinary and

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    • Author: Carver Johnson, Quinn
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: September 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0810146509
    • Language: English
  • God Went Like That

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    An artful and gripping new novel that recounts the human and environmental damage caused by actual disasters in Simi Valley, California

    In award-winning legal scholar and novelist Yxta Maya Murray’s

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    • Author: Murray, Yxta Maya
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: March 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0810146029
    • Language: English
  • As If She Had a Say: Stories

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    A new story collection from Jennifer Fliss, author of The Predatory Animal Ball

    Who has a right to tell us how to experience our grief? How to perform–or not perform–the roles society prescribes to

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    • Author: Fliss, Jennifer
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: July 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 0810146258
    • Language: English
  • The Curators

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    Violence haunts 1915 Atlanta and so does the golem a group of girls creates

    A dark, lyrical blend of historical fiction and magical realism, The Curators examines a critically underexplored event in

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    • Author: Nye, Maggie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 296
    • Publish Date: June 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 0810147327
    • Language: English
  • Miss Southeast: Essays

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    A collection of narrative essays on femininity, sexuality, community, and belonging

    Miss Southeast explores the strange, often contradictory cultural circumstances of being queer and female in the Amer

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    • Author: Rogers, Elizabeth Lindsey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 216
    • Publish Date: September 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 0810147726
    • Language: English
  • Find Me When You’re Ready: Poems

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    A powerful debut and a lyric coming-of-age narrative that interrogates the myths we carry

    In Find Me When You’re Ready, Perry Janes traces a sweeping journey from Detroit to Los Angeles. As he leaves

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    • Author: Janes, Perry
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: September 15 2024
    • ISBN10: 0810147645
    • Language: English
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