Philadelphia-born, San Diego-based writer Alexis V. Jackson's completely original debut poetry collection MY SISTERS' COUNTRY is out from Kore Press in January 2022. Jackson artfully braids together a multi-vocal chorus of Black women's voices acros...
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North Carolina writer and publisher Alexis Orgera's new memoir, HEAD CASE: MY FATHER, ALZHEIMER'S & OTHER BRAINSTORMS, is a lyric experiment written in the immediacy of grief during the end stages of her father's early Alzheimer's diagnosis at age 5...
Poetry. WAVE SAYS is an impressionistic, eco-poetic collection inspired by the behavior of waves. With taut lyrics and pressurized white space, K.M. English's debut collection listens into the gaps, sensing into an experience of time, self, and worl...
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Memoir. Selected by Cheryl Strayed for the Kore Press Institute Memoir Award. CERTAIN AND IMPOSSIBLE EVENTS begins in April 1994, with the suicide of a fourteen-year-old boy in a small New England town. The boy ...
Poetry. California Interest. LGBTQIA Studies. VIA NEGATIVA, often used to talk about the divine (a way of describing what something is by describing what it is not), is a book about the more difficult ways of talking about the ecstatic world. Half g...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Art. Edited by Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin. A collection of poems, essays, elder conversations, and visual works, LETTERS TO THE FUTURE: BLACK WOMEN / RADICAL WRITING...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. California Interest. Women's Studies. REFUGE is a book of lyric essays about a young woman's life as a budding writer and an international development and aid worker. Spanning twelve years and multiple continents, it foc...
Poetry. Women's Studies. California Studies. TRAILER TRASH is a book about the cotton-country of Riverside County, Southern California, in the 1980s/90s. A book about poverty, ravaged landscape, and gender, it touches on a fuller, dustier California...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Winner of the Kore Press First Book Award in Poetry, selected by Tracie Morris, BODY BURDEN is an investigation—in historical documents, public records, imagined letters, a rich variety of visual and linguistic forms. The po...
Poetry. A meditation on light, human displacement, and longing, NO COMET, THAT SERPENT IN THE SKY MEANS NOISE centers on a single conjecture: If light is a language sent forth from distant bodies and stars, what are we likewise saying into those bla...
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. WIRE & WAIL is by turns autobiographic, scientific, philosophic, and religious. Lusia Slomkowska was born with a heart defect in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1954, the daughter of a Polish Catholic Holocaust s...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. From the opening poem, where everyday scenes clothe a cast of characters in weather, tears, and prayer, to "animal between," where the narrator conjures her desires into the courage to explore her sexuality,...
Fiction. Women's Studies. From the Dust Bowl to The Magic Kingdom, the Rust Belt to the casinos of Atlantic City, EXPOSURE captures the slow-burn dramas of regret and desire that smolder across America. A grieving photographer blurs time with long e...
Fiction. Set in locations up and down the East Coast, these eight evocative stories explore the quiet ripples beneath the surface of everyday life. Although the characters rarely raise their voices, they are animated by the deep emotional undercurre...
Poetry. Visual Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Illustrations by Alf Dahlman. ENCYCLOPÉDIE OF THE COMMON AND ENCOMPASSING is an illustrated collection of encyclopedic prose poems with a structure that is, from the Greek roots of encyclopedia, enkyklios, or cir...