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It's Pub Day here at River River
Our seven amazing new titles land in the world today
Han VanderHart
February 24, 2026
Our press description says we publish “(at least) two books a year.” Today, we’re extracting as much as we can out of that “at least”: we have seven (7!) titles publishing today. Our catalog has nearly doubled in size in a single day, jumping from eight books to an incredible 15.
It has been quite a journey since we dreamed up this press at AWP in Philadelphia in 2022, and we couldn’t be prouder to be sharing these new books: five poetry collections and the first two titles in our Plainwater Nonfiction Series.
If you preordered any or all of these books, they will be landing in your mailbox soon. If you’re going to be at the AWP Conference in Baltimore next week, come see us at Table T-756 and pick up a book or three (or just come say hello!). And if you haven’t ordered yet, check out our online bookshop.
Thank you so much for supporting small presses and their authors—every preorder and every order directly support our authors and the production of our books.
Welcome our new books!
 J.D. Ho’s Backyard Alchemy transforms the loss of climate stability, relationships, health, and ecological integrity into sites of repair and restoration.  There Is News Along the Ohio River is a paean to careful attention and riverwalks. Beth Gilstrap locates the trauma and grief and gratitude of everyday life in the landscape and history of the Ohio River. |  The poems in Zoë Ryder White’s debut full-length poetry collection, The Visible Field, live in the space between the mind’s internal life and the body’s external world.  Jennifer A Sutherland’s second poetry collection, House of Myth and Necessity, throws open the shutters of language as it is built around the concepts of girlhood, marriage, myth, and law.  Antibody, Elane Kim’s debut collection, pays vivid, clarifying attention to the sensory world and family histories, meditating on acts of care, science, light, translation, girlhood, and Korean American identity. |  Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers weaves narrative and elegy around the figure of a mother, the poems unfolding in the speaker’s Bombay home.  Elizabeth Sylvia’s second poetry collection Scythe limns the verdant space of the cultivated garden—from Versailles to Mattaoisett, Massachusetts—while keenly tracing the reality of rising environmental heat and the cost of human flourishing. |
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