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Photo Credit: Elizabeth CodyWe complete our Holiday Sampler series with a pesky li’l sample from Acre’s first poetry offering—by T. R. Hummer—about which Derek Mong recently noted: “The pleasure of After the Afterlife is in watching a masterful American poet try to...
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...
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...
A fascinating interview with A. Molotkov, whose SYNONYMS FOR SILENCE will appear from Acre this spring. “Russian poetry is predominantly rhymed, even now. . . . Rhymes are employed to prettify the language. Historically, they served to make verses memorable. Rhymes...
We’re beyond pleased with Derek Mong’s thoughtful and thoroughgoing review of T. R. Hummer’s AFTER THE AFTERLIFE in the Kenyon Review.
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,...
We made the list! Actually, the lists—Small Press Distribution’s bestseller lists. Congrats to T. R. Hummer, whose AFTER THE AFTERLIFE is a poetry bestseller, and to Jenn Scott, whose HER ADULT LIFE is hitting it in fiction!
XXXXT. R. Hummer’s “Glass Ceiling,” from his new volume After the Afterlife, nabs a feature spot on Poetry Daily. The collection, just released, is available through SPD, Amazon, and oh so many other places. E-books can be purchased on Acre’s website.
T. R. Hummer, author of After the Afterlife (his twelfth collection), due out officially in January, though in light of the prize we’ve stepped up production and will have books in hand next month. Preorder your copy on Amazon today!
Double Blind InterviewBy prior arrangement, I met the poet T. R. Hummer at a place where three roads converged in a yellow wood midway in life’s journey. On the cusp of publishing his twelfth book of poetry, After the Afterlife, he was feeling cocky, and so he was...