John Skoyles' All the Question Marks is now available for pre-order! In this darkly comic novel of marriage and betrayal, Skoyles constructs an ingenious dual narrative: a man confronting his wife’s memoir while his own shadow self takes over the telling. Pre-order: ueplit.short.gy/QuestionMarks

This Sunday, September 13, Tom Sleigh will be reading with Hilary Sideris, Austin Alexis, and Kristine Esser-Slentz as part of A Persistence of Cormorants, a summer-long poetry reading series on the Gowanus Canal shoreline in Brooklyn, NY. Learn more: ueplit.short.gy/events

In S4 Ep5 of Authors Unbound, Tomas Unger reads "Still" from his debut collection of poems, Odd Hour. Listen to the full episode: ueplit.short.gy/UngerUnbound Odd Hour: ueplit.short.gy/OddHour #poetry #podcast #indiepublishing #booklaunch #literarycommunity

What a thrill it is to publish this major work from the legendary Janet Hardy! A Slut's Life in Three Acts is now available for pre-order: ueplit.short.gy/ASlutsLife

Join us 9/17 at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Cambridge, MA for a poetry reading by Jennifer Clarvoe and Melissa Range with an introduction by Martha Collins. Attend in person or on Zoom. Learn More/RSVP: ueplit.short.gy/events Order PIANO PIANO: ueplit.short.gy/PIANOPIANO @jsclarvoe.bsky.social

In S4 Ep5 of Authors Unbound, Tomas Unger reads from "Once", a poem in his debut collection, Odd Hour. Listen to the full episode: ueplit.short.gy/UngerUnbound Odd Hour: ueplit.short.gy/OddHour #poetry #podcast #indiepublishing #booklaunch #literarycommunity

John Shoptaw and Jesse Nathan will be featured in UC Berkeley's Holloway Poetry Series Faculty Reading on September 10th. The reading will be held at 5:30pm in Wheeler Hall, Room 300. Learn More: ueplit.short.gy/events @rudemechanical7.bsky.social

In S4 Ep5, we talk with poet, teacher and critic Tomas Unger about his debut collection, Odd Hour (Unbound Edition Press, 2026). Join us for a rich conversation about the mysterious ways poetry makes the world newly present. Listen: ueplit.short.gy/UngerUnbound Odd Hour: ueplit.short.gy/OddHour

Bank Square Books in Mystic, CT presents an author talk and signing with Jennifer Clarvoe on September 15 for her third book of poetry, PIANO PIANO. Learn more and RSVP: ueplit.short.gy/events @jsclarvoe.bsky.social #poetry #poetryreading #booklaunch #indiepublishing

What a wonderful accomplishment for David Lauterstein of Nasty Pig to launch the audiobook version of Sodomy Gods. The compelling memoir is even more moving in the author's own voice. We had the honor of publishing the print edition in 2024. Listen on Spotify: ueplit.short.gy/SodomyGodsAudio

Sodomy Gods

David Lauterstein · Audiobook

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Unbound Edition Press today announced it will publish David Biespiel’s latest collection of poetry, Beautiful Is the World: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2026, arriving September 2026. Learn more: ueplit.short.gy/BiespielNews @davidbiespiel.bsky.social Photo credit: Marion Ettlinger

In S4 Ep4 of Authors Unbound, Willard Spiegelman shares more from chapter seven, "From the Music Hall to the Honky-Tonk: Crazy for Patsy Cline", of his unconventional memoir of taste, My (Lucky) Stars. Full Episode: ueplit.short.gy/SpiegelmanUnbound

In S4 Ep4 of Authors Unbound, Willard Spiegelman reads from chapter seven, "From the Music Hall to the Honky-Tonk: Crazy for Patsy Cline", of his unconventional memoir of taste, My (Lucky) Stars. Full Episode: ueplit.short.gy/SpiegelmanUnbound

In S4 Ep4, we talk with Willard Spiegelman about My (Lucky) Stars, his forthcoming unconventional memoir which posits middlebrow culture as a space capable of offering pleasure, community, generosity, and relief from hardship. This is Willard Spiegelman Unbound. ueplit.short.gy/SpiegelmanUnbound

Don't miss Tom Sleigh's essay "A Long Way Down" in Arrowsmith Vol. 35. The piece reveals how a "spookily prescient" rediscovery of Peter Handke's A Sorrow Beyond Dreams led to the narrative of his own mother's death—and life—Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell. ueplit.short.gy/ALongWayDown #memoir

A Long Way Down — ARROWSMITH

I didn't know how my book would end until my mother died.

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Unbound Edition Press announced it will publish John Skoyles’ darkly comic novel, All the Question Marks, arriving October 2026. “I’ll state it plainly: this is a masterpiece, and, as such, the hand of providence had its say.” - Jerald Walker More: ueplit.short.gy/SkoylesNews @johnfxs.bsky.social

In S4 Ep3 of Authors Unbound, Howard Altmann reads "Holding Posture" from his third English-language poetry collection, Infinite Sky Divided (Unbound Edition Press, 2026). Listen to the full episode: ueplit.short.gy/AltmannUnbound Infinite Sky Divided: ueplit.short.gy/InfiniteSky #poetry #podcast

In S4 Ep3 of Authors Unbound, Howard Altmann reads "Kyiv" from his third English-language poetry collection, Infinite Sky Divided (Unbound Edition Press, 2026). Listen to the full episode: ueplit.short.gy/AltmannUnbound Infinite Sky Divided: ueplit.short.gy/InfiniteSky #podcast #booklaunch #poetry

In S4 Ep3 of Authors Unbound, we sit down with acclaimed international poet Howard Altmann to discuss Infinite Sky Divided, a remarkable new collection that explores the meeting place of private memory and collective history. This is Howard Altmann Unbound. Listen: ueplit.short.gy/AltmannUnbound

Don Bogen's Everywhere We Are is available for order! In his 6th book of poetry, Bogen confronts illness, loss, and the inexorable passage of time. The book moves through five sections exploring how beloved presences dissolve into memory, landscape, and the natural world. ueplit.short.gy/Everywhere

Don't miss Tom Sleigh's interview with Ira Wood on WOMR's The Lowdown, in which the two discuss Tom's "achingly personal", "amusingly absurd" Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell. Listen: ueplit.short.gy/SleighWOMR Rosie: ueplit.short.gy/Rosie #memoir #radio #deathwithdignity #interview #literarycommunity

Unbound Edition Press will publish Willard Spiegelman’s memoir, My (Lucky) Stars (October 2026). Spiegelman weaves an unconventional memoir—part cultural criticism, part personal testament, his essays reveal how we come to know ourselves through what delights us. More: ueplit.short.gy/SpiegelmanNews

Eleanor Goodman's Lessons in Glass is available for order! Goodman’s spare, muscular language interrogates what it means to inherit fragility: what shatters, what endures, and what we choose to preserve in the delicate architecture of memory. These poems are built to last. ueplit.short.gy/lessons

In S4 Ep2 of Authors Unbound, Christian Bancroft reads from "Chiaroscuro" in A Ghost Has No Fantasies. Full Episode: ueplit.short.gy/BancroftUnbound Order A Ghost Has No Fantasies: ueplit.short.gy/Ghost #podcast #lgbtq #holocaustremembrance #pinktriangle #poetry

In S4 Ep2 of Authors Unbound, Christian Bancroft reads from "Early Relationships" in A Ghost Has No Fantasies. Full Episode: ueplit.short.gy/BancroftUnbound Order A Ghost Has No Fantasies: ueplit.short.gy/Ghost #podcast #lgbtq #holocaustremembrance #pinktriangle #poetry

In S4 Ep2, Christian Bancroft discusses A Ghost Has No Fantasies, a groundbreaking collection that explores the lives, loves, and losses of LGBTQ+ people targeted during the Holocaust. This is Christian Bancroft Unbound. Listen: ueplit.short.gy/BancroftUnbound Order: ueplit.short.gy/Ghost

The Los Angeles Review of Books has published a rave review of Jennifer Clarvoe's PIANO PIANO by poet and critic Dan Beachy-Quick. Read the full review: ueplit.short.gy/ClarvoeLARB Order PIANO PIANO: ueplit.short.gy/PIANOPIANO @jsclarvoe.bsky.social @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #poetry #bookreview

To Touch the Music That Touches You | Los Angeles Review of Books

On the music of new poetry collections from Jennifer Clarvoe and Susan Stewart.

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A wonderful recommendation in @pshares.bsky.social for J. Allyn Rosser's Chronic Transience. “Jill Rosser is an old favorite of mine, and this new book is full of her mordant, occasionally melancholy, wit . . ." pshares.org/issue-articl... Order Chronic Transience: ueplit.short.gy/Chronic #poetry

Pleased to share Linda Lowen's lovely review of Tom Sleigh's Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell. "Rosie is an irresistible literary memoir with a vibrant, easy-to-follow story . . . " Read the full review in Hippocampus Magazine: ueplit.short.gy/RosieHippocampus #bookreview #memoir #assisteddying

REVIEW: Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell by Tom Sleigh | Hippocampus Magazine

"...an irresistible literary memoir with a vibrant, easy-to-follow story..." from Linda Lowen's review of Rosie: A Memoir of Farewell by Tom Sleigh

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We are thrilled to share that Unbound Edition Press will publish Janet W. Hardy’s extraordinary collection of essential work, A Slut’s Life in Three Acts. The title is scheduled for publication in September 2026. Read more: ueplit.short.gy/HardyNews #literarycommunity #lgbtq #indiepublishing