Celebrate the launch of CD Eskilson’s debut poetry collection SCREAM / QUEEN.
Book Launch: Scream / Queen
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Acre Books Blog
An Interview with Lisa Ampleman
Acre’s Lisa Ampleman talks about her multifaceted roles as a poet and editor, her creative process, and the inspirations behind her third full-length collection, MOM IN SPACE.
Author Jenna Le on Form, Aesthetics, and Manatees
Poetry Editor Lisa Ampleman Interviews Jenna Le, Author of MANATEE LAGOON
Library Journal review of C.T. Salazar’s Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
“An immense tenderness underlies Salazar’s standout first collection. The poems probe the ever-presence of history, family, place, religion, and grief insisting on multidimensionality and the complicated ways the aforementioned entwine with us, for better and worse....
Announcing Our October 2022 Release! Jenna Le’s Manatee Lagoon
In Manatee Lagoon, her third full-length collection, physician and poet Jenna Le blends traditional form and the current moment. Sonnets, ghazals, pantoums, villanelles, and a “failed georgic” weave in contemporary…
Review of Dan O’Brien’s OUR CANCERS by Megan Kuklis
“Dan O’Brien’s collection has brought his experience of his wife’s and his own cancer into the realm of shared memory. Although deeply personal, his poetic memories transcend into the universal story of grief and caregiving. […]
The Cloudy House: Megan Grumbling on Persephone in the Late Anthropocene
Head over to The Cloudy House to take a look at the wonderful conversation they had with Acre poet Megan Grumbling about her new collection Persephone in the Late Anthropocene. She discusses Persephone as a “project book,” other authors and works that have used...
Megan Grumbling’s Persephone in the Late Anthropocene and Corinna Vallianatos’s The Beforeland Officially Release Today!
Today is the day: receive a double dose of the finest, piping-hot Acre literary cuisine. Dig deep into the harrowing apocalyptic bricolage of Persephone in the Late Anthropocene, Megan Grumbling’s second poetry collection featuring “Farmers Almanac entries,...
Our Fall Titles Have Been Officially Announced!
We are thrilled to present our Fall 2024 lineup: The Great Game: Essays and Poetics by Amit Majmudar; The Alcestis Machine, a poetry collection by Carolyn Oliver; and Nothing Vast, the debut novel from Moshe Zvi Marvit. Preorder links are live on each book's page....
Another Accolade for HoodWitch!
It seems like every other week we’re posting about a new recognition for Faylita Hicks’s revolutionary debut poetry collection HoodWitch. This time the book is a finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize! Check out the list of other finalists (for the poetry as well as...