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Urvashi Bundel | Unapologetically Feminist by Urvashi Bundel

Unapologetically Feminist seeks global justice. It’s a kaleidoscope of women’s experiences at the intersections of race, region, and social status. Urvashi Bundel fearlessly explores the complex forces shaping lands and running through our veins.

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Aisha Fukishima | Mostly Water by Aisha Fukushima

Mostly Water is a debut poetry collection exploring mixed heritage and identity, with a focus on Black and Japanese experience. Moving between verse, prose poems, family photographs, and a foreword and afterword, Fukushima maps the places where two lineages meet and where water carries memory across them.

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Kory Saljka | i laughed did you laugh? by Kory Salajka

i laughed did you laugh? is a debut collection that began as a daily haiku practice and became something else: a record of the last year of the poet's father's life. Written almost daily from April 2023 through May 2024, the poems move through observation, question, sadness, and awe, an accidental chronicle of pre-grieving that Kory didn't realize she was making until after her father died.

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Joshua T. Kurnia | not all fallen is lost by Joshua T. Kurnia

Step into a galaxy of dreams, life reflections, and stories sewn together through Josh Kurnia’s lyrical language. A poetry collection that will transport you into a meditative abyss of a faraway world but bring you back home at the same time. See how Tell Tell Poetry helped Kurnia transform his vision into a reality, leading him to publish his debut collection that explores themes of inspiration, hope, self-love, life experiences, LGBTQ, fallen stars, and the big, blue moon.

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Jerrilyn Black | I See Her . . . by Jerrilyn Black

Based on a personal storytelling project, I See Her…weaves a gorgeous tapestry of women’s strength using the thread of real-life interviews. Black’s range of poetic styles reflects the divine complexity of women she represents.

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Tekeyah Hall | Watching Myself Die

Watching Myself Die marks an impressive debut speaking acutely to the fractured natures of love and identity. Like the book’s opening line—“She was born from a spark”—the rest of the collection blazes with possibility.

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Joyce Stein | The Collected Works of Joyce Stein

The Collected Works of Joyce Stein is more than a poetry collection. It's Joyce's entire oeuvre--a collection of work she had written over her long and full life, and her son, Barney, needed a way to commemorate it.

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Mystikal Blue Casares | Wanting & Bearing

While living thousands of miles away from his native San Antonio, Mystikal began to journal and sketch new hybrid work, allowing poems and illustrations to evolve in conversation with one another.

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Biman Roy | Navigating the Quartz Forest

Inspired by his teenage daughter’s cryptic scraps of handwritten notes, Biman wanted to create a collection of poems that imagined the world of which he only saw lined slivers.

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Francesca Marais | Emerge

“This process was eye opening and self-expository, but it was powerful.”

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Noelle Cannon | Sunspot

Noelle had been writing the poems that would eventually become Sunspot for a long time, and she wanted to gain the knowledge to finally publish her first collection.

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