RECENT TITLES

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.

Cut Away
-Catherine Kirkwood

A novel of identity, transformation, and discovery.

Erotic, dark and intense, Kirkwood asks difficult questions about the relationship between appearance and identity. —Alexander Chee

NEWS

Review: Great review of The Alphabet Conspiracy in NewPages.

News: The newest Arktoi author has been chosen: Kelly Barth of Lawrence, Kansas. Kelly's memoir was chosen to the the first nonfiction book on the Arktoi shelf.

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.

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.

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.