New Books for March 2026
Small, Independent, and University Press, and Author-published Books
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March 2026 Featured Books
Eternidades / Eternities (1916-1917), Juan Ramón Jiménez, trans A. F. Moritz, The Bitter Oleander Press
Jiménez’s 1918 Eternities, a landmark of modern Spanish literature, was influenced by his American trip and Dickinson’s poetry. See sponsor blog post here.
irl: poems by Danielle McMahon, Stanchion
These nostalgic, tender poems blend AIM-era fragments capturing intimacy, longing, and the vivid ache of being seen. See sponsor blog post here.
More Notable New Books
Poetry
Agetha, Lex Orgera, JackLeg Press
The Book of Advice, Ghazal Mosadeq, Ugly Duckling Presse
Burning Oracle, Sandra Simonds, Wesleyan University Press
Caetano, Alexis Almeida, Ugly Duckling Presse
The Dog’s Letter, Timothy Ashley Leo, Ugly Duckling Presse
Field Notes of A Flaneur, Lewis Meyers, Parlor Press
The Hell of that Star, Kim Hyesoon, trans Cindy Juyoung Ok, Wesleyan University Press
It Looks Like a Man, Heather McHugh, Wesleyan University Press
Interglacial, Tracy Zeman, Parlor Press
Rivermouth Shouting, Jean Gallagher, Parlor Press
Rolando Cardenas: On the Life and Work of a Chilean Master, ed by Felipe Acevedo Riquelme, Mathew Weitman, & July Westhale, Pleiades Press
Sardine, Miriam Reyes, tr Laura Cesarco Eglin, Ugly Duckling Presse
The Soft Black Stars, Matthew Buckley Smith, Rattle
Songbird, Carol Ann Davis, Wesleyan University Press
Sunworshippers, Paul Ebenkamp, Ugly Duckling Presse
Winter Night Rabbit Worries, Yoo Heekung, tr Stine An, Ugly Duckling Presse
Fiction
Between the Stacks, ed by Elisabeth Dove, Carmine Pen Press
Blood Garlands, Travis D. Johnson, Frolic Press
Breaking Through the Penumbra, ed by Johanna Haas, Jessica Bradshaw, Jacqui Paul, Jenny Graman, Cicada Song Press
Come Again No More, David Wesley Williams, JackLeg Press
Double Serpent, Sam Max, Ugly Duckling Presse
The Moon Papers, Emmalea Russo, Arcade Publishing
Smalltime Comics Episode One: Deer in the Headlights, Mitchell Reichgut, Smalltime Comics
The Unteachable, Ansgar Allen, Anti-Oedipus Press
Nonfiction
The City on Three Lakes, David L. Miles & Ole Lyngklip, Mission Point Press
The Dark-Robed Mother: A Memoir, Rachel Tzvia Back, Wesleyan University Press
Magic Episodes and Other Synchronicities: The Transhemispheric Correspondence of Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa, 1970–1980, ed David J. Getsy & Patrick Greaney, Ugly Duckling Presse
Secret Michigan: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, Amy Piper, Reedy Press
See February 2026 book titles here.
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