Acre’s Assistant Poetry Editor Shara Lessley launched the #SeptWomenPoets hashtag (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook) as a way to create an online book club where readers share selections and covers from books by women poets. The challenge has encouraged readers to...
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Don’t Forget: Hannah Dow’s Rosarium as The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed
Did you know that Hannah Dow’s poetry collection Rosarium was a The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed pick from Sundress Publications this spring? The Wardrobe highlights a collection through the lens of a single poem, picking their favorite spotlights for “Best Dressed.” In...
Dow in San Francisco Chronicle
XXXXThanks to David Roderick and the San Francisco Chronicle for this thoughtful look at Hannah Dow’s “Postcard from the Salton Sea”!
Interview with Hannah Dow
XXXXAn absorbing exchange between two wonderfully insightful poets, Hannah Dow and Danielle Cadena Deulen. Thanks, Oxford Writers’ House! Read A Piece of Oneself into the World.
Acre’s Holiday Sampler, Part 1
It’s been quite an inaugural year for Acre. We’ve put into the world six terrific books—two poetry volumes, two story collections, and two novels—three of them debut titles from brilliant new voices. For your holiday reading pleasure, we’ve asked our 2018 authors to...
ROSARIUM Is Here!
XXXXWe’re super excited to announce that Acre’s fall title for poetry—ROSARIUM, a dazzling debut collection by Hannah Dow—is available for purchase! Though just released, the collection has already made the top of Rick Ripatrazone’s Must-Read list for November in The...
Curious about Our Covers?
ABSTRACT ROSES, gesso, acrylic, gel ink pen on cotton canvas (100 x 40 x 1.8 cm)On the cover of Hannah Dow’s ROSARIUM is a mixed-media representation of roses by Lithuanian artist Lisa Sadziuviene. Lina Sadziuviene on ABSTRACT ROSES: “Most of my works are inspired by...
Spring Release and Fall Lineup!
It’s a banner day for Acre Books: the official release date of our fledgling press’s first novel—Michael Downs’s THE STRANGE AND TRUE TALE OF HORACE WELLS, SURGEON DENTIST—as well as the big reveal of our fall lineup of fab titles! Tooth keys, erupting mountains,...