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Zarpamos
by Yael Kiken
Zarpamos by Guadalupe Ángela, translated from the Spanish by Yael Kiken winner of the WWPH Poetry in Translation Prize Publication... Learn more…
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DICTIONARY OF AIR
by Jason Gebhardt
Dictionary of Air, a debut poetry collection, by Jason Gebhardt Winner of the 50th Anniversary Editor's Prize Publication Date: January... Learn more…
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VILLAINS
by Samantha Neugebauer
Villians: a short story collection by Samantha Neugebauer Winner of the 2025 WWPH Fiction Award Publication date: January 26, 2027... Learn more…
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NOTIFICATIONS ON
by Emily Holland
Notifications On, a debut poetry collection by Emily Holland Winner of the 2025 Jean Feldman Poetry Award Publication date: January... Learn more…
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America’s Future
Edited by Caroline Bock Jona Colson
AMERICA'S FUTURE features 164 bold, thought-provoking writers. Some pieces turn to our past, reckoning with the wounds we still carry in today’s scars before questioning the future. Others turn their gaze forward, imagining the ways hope and reinvention can carve new paths. Learn more…
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Capital Queer
Edited by Jona Colson Caroline Bock
Capital Queer: A Pride Celebration from Washington Writers' Publishing House 32 bold LGBTQIA+ voices from across the DMV. Learn more…
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You Cannot Save Here
by Tonee Mae Moll
A collection of poems about how we live when each day feels like the world is ending. The poems ask what we do with the small moments that matter when so much around us-climate disaster, gun violence, pandemics, wars-makes these days feel apocalyptic. Learn more…
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The Machine Autocorrects Code to I
by Chanlee Luu
In an experiment of forms, this universe of poems wanders thruogh the messy past, battles in the charged present, and dreams/nightmares to the unknown future. This collection intertwines racial/cultural identity with gender, politics, and the environment, while also traversing time and place. Learn more…
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For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus
by Varun Gauri
FOR THE BLESSINGS OF VENUS AND JUPITER by Varun Gauri is an intimate, funny, heartbreaking novel about Indian-American community and the politics of marriage in small-town America. An award-winning, acclaimed debut novel. Learn more…
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Unarmed: An American Educator’s Memoir
by Megan Doney
A memoir of a teacher's perspective on the current experience of American students, written as a personal response to a school shooting at New River Community College in Christiansburg, Virginia. A must-read for educators at all levels, for college students, for parents, and for all of us who think deeply and widely about American society. Learn more…
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Aquas/Waters
by Miguel Avero
Aguas/Waters introduces the rich and vibrant imagery of Uruguayan poet Miguel Avero to the English-speaking world through Jona Colson's translation. Selected works from two of his early collections highlight the legacy of magical realism and rioplatense rhythms in this prolific poet's fierce style. Learn more…
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Leda’s Daughters
by K. Avvirin Berlin
In this debut collection, the lives of working women are spun by able hands into myth. These are salt-of-the-earth poems that traverse and transgress the temporal, re-envisioning African American and Native American women's history as a history of poetics. Learn more…
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Transplant: A Memoir
by Bernardine Watson
A page-turning, personal journey into one Black woman's battle with kidney disease and the American medical system. Bernardine Watson's book is at once a truth-telling and an affirmation of the life force propelling us all toward love and hope. Learn more…
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Bad Questions
by Len Kruger
Humorous and heartbreaking, Bad Questions is a coming-of-age journey toward redemption and self-awareness, skirting the lines between spirituality, skepticism, and faith-and asking the big questions Learn more…
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The Witch Bottle and Other Stories
by Suzanne Feldman
From Depression era Mississippi to the suburbs of modern America, to the trials and tribulations of smart young women struggling to make a name for themselves in the arts, Feldman delves deep into the dreams and emotions of regular people and makes them beautiful and accessible. This prize-winning collection of short stories and two novellas, offers entrancing tales of redemption, betrayal, tradition, and rebellion. Learn more…
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Altamira
by Myra Sklarew
A new edition of poetry by American University Emeritus Professor Myra Sklarew, focusing on her love of science and natural... Learn more…
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Why I Cannot Take a Lover
by Grace Cavalieri
A new edition of 1970 poetry collection by Maryland Poet Laureate Grace Cavalieri who was also a founder of Washington... Learn more…
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Working Vocabulary
by Sid Gold
The range of this collection is immense; from narrative and portrait to introspective lyric, these poems feel as relevant today as they did at the time of their original publication. Gold's voice, full of the subtle wit and wry humor of the streets, makes readers feel as if someone is just pulling up a barstool and saying over a tall cold one, let me tell you a story Learn more…
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And Silent Left the Place
by Elizabeth Bruce
A silent old man climbs into his secret hole, burdened by his Great War bargain--his voice for life with his beloved. The debut novel of Texas native Elizabeth Bruce is a lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed through the cruel dry land of Texas. Learn more…
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This is What America Looks Like
Edited by Caroline Bock Jona Colson
An anthology of new fiction and poetry from Washington Writers' Publishing House, a 47-year-old cooperative, all-volunteer press based in the... Learn more…
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The Understudy’s Handbook
by Steven Leyva
Drawing heat and music (and luscious food) from a New Orleans and Houston childhood, Steven Leyva's poetry reveals a sensibility forged by a growing awareness of race and class: child's joy and bafflement, a black Baltimore father's worry. Learn more…
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The Rest of the World
by Adam Schwartz
A refreshing story of a writer whose ear is so pitch-perfectly trained to his characters it seems as if he's an angel eavesdropping from their rooftops. His cast heralds from every walk of life, from street corners and housing projects from dive bars and fishing boats we might otherwise drown out with the noise of our lives, and he listens to them with a gigantic heart Learn more…
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Hurry Up and Relax
by Nathan W. Leslie
Nathan Leslie portrays self-appointed cops, shoplifting teens, gym rats, prayformers, polyamorous gamers, Bob-obsessed friend-collectors, hug phobics, online stalkers, dinosaur erotica writing gurus, and self-medicating placenta eaters. Learn more…
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Requiem with an Amulet in Its Beak
by Elizabeth Knapp
In Knapp's second collection, celebrities come and go, while the collection's patron saint, Emily Dickinson, presides over all. At its heart, this book is about loss and its endless reverberations, while at the same time, it embraces the notion of art as a kind of immortality. Learn more…
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Carry Her Home
by Caroline Bock
Forty-seven stories about family-from flash fiction to full-length works, deeply felt, autobiographical fiction-unfold across the decades from the 1960s to... Learn more…
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Said Through Glass
by Jona Colson
Jona Colson's debut poetry collection asks the reader to reconsider ordinary life as something curious, even fantastic. A poet of... Learn more…
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How to Prove a Theory
by Nicole Tong
In this brave, elegiac debut, Nicole Tong relies on empirical evidence to construct meaning in the wake of a series of losses that include a childhood lost to trauma, a best friend lost following childbirth, a brother-in-law, a father, and a generation of children in the poet's hometown after a water contamination event. Learn more…
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Strivers and Other Stories
by Robert Williams
Strivers and Other Stories explores a range of African-American and Southern voices reflecting characters striving towards their versions of the American dream. In 15 stories, we meet teachers and doctors, train porters and factory workers, soldiers and musicians; mothers, fathers, children and spouses; mentors and mentees. Learn more…
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St. Bart’s Way
by Patricia Schultheis
At. Bart's Way is a fictional street developed after the First World War when streetcar lines were extended to Baltimore's leafy outer reaches. Some of these stories transpire in a single day; others, over several decades, but, in each, characters weigh the outcome of their choices against the false promise of permanence and stability suggested by the stolid homes of St. Bart's Way. Learn more…
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Hearsay
by Christopher Ankney
Explores the mysterious death of the speaker's father, whether it was murder, suicide, or accident. These elegies focus more on the impact death has on the living kin, especially a child deciphering manhood with no guide, seeking redemption and faith in the midst of great tragedy. Learn more…
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Rush of Shadows
by Catherine Bell
RUSH OF SHADOWS is an epic of greed and violence set in the American West of the 1850's and 1860's. Learn more…
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Aliens & Other Stories
by Kathleen Wheaton
Political refugees from Argentina's "dirty war," survivors of a Cuban shipwreck and of Franco's Spain all navigate life as foreigners, whether in Madrid, Buenos Aires or suburban Washington, D.C. With wry, nuanced compassion, Wheaton follows these resilient people as they reconcile the absurdities of contemporary life with a legacy of dislocation, loss and longing. Learn more…
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Loose Weather
by Robert Herschbach
Loose Weather, interweaves empirical observation with history, politics and myth. The resulting poems are lyrical yet ambitious in scope, searching out the root existential questions underlying our engagement with this world. Learn more…
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Into the Wilderness
by David Ebenbach
This collection explores the theme of parenthood from many angles: an eager-to-connect divorced father takes his kids to a Jewish-themed baseball game; a lesbian couple tries to decide whether their toddler son needs a man in his life; one young couple debates the idea of parenthood while another struggles with infertility; a reserved father uses an all-you-can-eat buffet to comfort his heartbroken son. Learn more…
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The Color of My Soul
by Melanie Hatter
Kira Franklin, a black newspaper reporter in Southwest Virginia in 1993, begins to question her own culture when she pursues a story on a local Cherokee community raising money to reclaim ancestral lands. The history she knows about her own family - that her father fought and died in Vietnam - gets turned on its head when her mother announces that her father is not only alive and has come back to see her, but that he is white. Learn more…
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Words We Might One Day Say
by Holly Karapetkova
The poems in this volume explore the experiences of love and loss; of motherhood and childhood; and of living between... Learn more…
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Provenance
by Brandel France De Bravo
Taking her cue from Ralph Walso Emerson who said, "Every word was once a poem," she has written 26 poems--one for every letter--inspired by etymologies. By braiding autobiography with the biographies of "Apricot," and "Zygote" and everything inbetween, the poet tells a story that transports us to places both familiar and far-away. Learn more…
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Success: Stories
Edited by David Taylor
David A. Taylor's collection, Success: Stories, is the 2008 Fiction Award winner from Washington Writers' Publishing House. His work has... Learn more…
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Double Helix
by Barri Armitage
Book of poems by Barri Armitage(1993). Learn more…
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Wishbone Galaxy
by Kim Roberts
Book of poems by Kim Roberts (1994). Learn more…
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Farewell, Goodbye, Wave Goodbye
by Paul R. Haenel
Book of poems by Paul R. Haenel(1994). Learn more…
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Come Looking
by Dan Johnson
Book of poems by Dan Johnson (1995). Learn more…
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Tapping This Stone
by Jane Schapiro
Book of poems by Jane Schapiro(1995). Learn more…
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Hungry as we are
Anthology Learn more…
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King’s Highway
by Nancy Carlson
Poems by Nancy Carlson (1997). Learn more…
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Galileo’s Banquet
by Ned Balbo
Book of poems by Ned Balbo (1998). Learn more…
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Invisible Season
by Ramola D
Poems by Ramola D (1998). Learn more…
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Evidence
by Catherine Harnett
Poems by Catherine Harnett Shaw (1999). Learn more…
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Shepherdess with an Automatic
by Jane Satterfield
Poems by Jane Satterfield (2000). Learn more…
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American Boy
by Dean Smith
Poems by Dean Smith (2000). Learn more…
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The Bullfrog Does Not Imagine New Towns
by Bernard Jankowski
Book of poems by Bernard Jankowski (2001). Learn more…
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Hero Surfing
by Anne Sheldon
Book of poems by Anne Sheldon (2002). Learn more…
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Argument By Design
by Katherine R. Smith
A book of poems by Katherine R. Smith (2003). Learn more…
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Cleave
by Moira Egan
Book of poems by Moira Egan (2004). Learn more…
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Gagarin Street
by Piotr Gwiazda
Book of poems by Piotr Gwiazda(2005). Learn more…
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Temporary Aprehensions
by Patric Pepper
Book of poems by Patric Pepper(2006). Learn more…
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The Steam Sequence
by Carly Sachs
Book of poems by Carly Sachs (2006). Learn more…
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Mystery Schools
by Bruce Mackinnon
Book of poems by Bruce Mackinnon (2007). Learn more…
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From the Fever World
by Jehanne Dubrow
Book of poems by Jehanne Dubrow (2009). Learn more…
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Words We Might One Day Say
by Holly Karapetkova
Book of poems by Holly Karapetkova (2010). Learn more…
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Bloodcoal & Honey
by Dan Gutstein
Book of poems by Dan Gutstein (2011). Learn more…
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Loose Weather
Book of poems by Robert Herschback (2013). Learn more…
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Do You Take This Woman
by Ann Darr
Poems by Ann Darr (1986). Learn more…
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The Captains that Dogs Aren’t
by Ron Rodriguez
Poems by Ron Rodriguez (1977). Learn more…
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Instincts for the Jugular
by Greg Hannan
Poems by Greg Hannan (1980). Learn more…
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Sandpainting
by Gray Jacobik
Poems by Gray Jacobik (1980). Learn more…
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Paradise & Cash
by David Bristol
Poems by David Bristol (1980). Learn more…
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Letters to a Stranger
by Beate Sigriddaughter (Goldman)
Poems by Beate Sigriddaughter Goldman (1981). Learn more…
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Poppies
by Judith Harris
Poems by Judith Harris (1981). Learn more…
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The Coil of the Skin
by Mary Ann Larkin
Poems by Mary Ann Larkin (1982). Learn more…
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Certain Patterns
by Hastings Wyman
Poems by Hastings Wyman (1982). Learn more…
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Raking the Snow
by Elisavietta Ritchie
Poems by Elisavietta Ritchie (1982). Learn more…
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On Hogback Mountain
by Elaine Magarrell
Poems by Elaine Magarrell (1985). Learn more…
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The Queen of Lost Baggage
by Barbara Lefcowitz
Poems by Barbara Lefcowitz (1986). Learn more…
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Children of Apartness
by Elaine Maria Upton
Book by Elaine Maria Upton (1993). Learn more…
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Bracelet of Lies
by Jean Nordhaus
Poems by Jean Nordhaus (1987). Learn more…
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Altamira
by Myra Sklarew
Poems by Myra Sklarew (1987). Learn more…
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Stonecrop
by Ann B. Knox
Poems by Ann B. Knox (1988). Learn more…
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The Other Side of Now
by Sharon Negri
Poems by Sharon Negri (1989). Learn more…
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Wild Card
by Martin Galvin
Poems by Martin Galvin (1989). Learn more…
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From the Red Eye of Jupiter
by Patricia Garfinkel
Poems by Patricia Garfinkel (1990). Learn more…
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Moon and Mercury
by Elisabeth Murawski
Poems by Elisabeth Murawski (1990). Learn more…
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The Snow on Lake Como
by Laura Brylawski-Miller
Poems by Laura Brylawski-Miller (1991). Learn more…
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Relearning the Dark
by Nan Fry
Book of poems by Nan Fry (1991). Learn more…
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The Dark Above Mad River
by Joseph Thackery
Book of poems by Joseph Thackery (1992). Learn more…
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Only the Raw Hands are Heaven
by Naomi Thiers
Book of poems by Naomi Thiers (1992). Learn more…