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My Almost Certainly
Real Imaginary Jesus
-Kelly Barth

...a joyous, raw, wry story about how Kelly Barth found her identity as a Christian-believing member of humanity in partnership with the world. Her truth-telling as a lesbian is a ground truthing as a human... —Terry Tempest Williams

The Alphabet Conspiracy
-Rita Mae Reese

These poems dig beneath the surface of dictionary entries to uncover their secrets and to discover some of the poet's own.

COMING SOON

-Fall 2013: East LA Poet:
poems by Verónica Reyes

NEWS

2012

Review: Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is declared "Required Reading" by The Seattle Lesbian

Honor: Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus has been named one of the Best Books 2012: Spiritual Living by the Library Journal

News: The next Arktoi novelist has been chosen! Congratulations to Amy Schutzer, of Portland, Oregon. Her book will be published in 2014.

News: The next Arktoi poet has been chosen! Congratulations to Verónica Reyes of Los Angeles. Her collection will be published in 2013. more info & poetry

Honor: Elizabeth Bradfield, author of Interpretive Work has been appointed the 2012-2014 Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University.

Honor: Rita Mae Reese, author of The Alphabet Conspiracy, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for a poem published in So To Speak.

2011

Review: Great review of The Alphabet Conspiracy in NewPages.

News: The newest Arktoi author, and the press's first nonfiction writer, has been chosen: Kelly Barth of Lawrence, Kansas. Kelly's memoir, My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus, will be published in 2012.

Honor: Ching-In Chen is one of the 30 guest tweeters for the Academy of American Poets for the 2011 National Poetry Month!

Honor: Cathy Kirkwood's Cut Away is a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award from New York's Publishing Triangle.

2010

Read: Catherine Kirkwood Guest Blogs: "On Kindness and Death" on Quest for Kindness and "Who IS That? When a Character Comes Calling" on Her Circle Ezine

Review: Great review of Cut Away in Shelf Awareness.

2009

Honor: Ching-In Chen's The Heart's Traffic is listed as one of the notable Asian American books of 2009: read the list

Award: Elizabeth Bradfield's Interpretive Work won the 2009 Audre Lorde Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

New Audio: Hear Elizabeth Bradfield read and discuss poems on From the Fishouse

Awards: Two of the poems from The Heart's Traffic ("Two Truths & A Lie" and "Black Light") were finalists for the Borders Open-Door Poetry Contest, judged by Billy Collins.