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Congratulations to Darius & Rebecca!!! kith's CLMP Firecracker Award Nominees The Holy Ghost Lives in Her Laugh Darius Phelps Multimorbid Rebecca Wood I'm incredibly proud to have played a part in bringing both of these books to fruition. A devotional to the imperfect mother & disabled poems that force eyes on the real. Phelps & Wood give us empathy in action—the true work of kith. kithbooks.com Congratulations CLMP Firecracker Award Nominees The Holy Ghost Lives in Her Laugh Darius Phelps cover: a near black graphite drawing with on glowing point of reflection, a light in the dark Multimorbid Rebecca Wood cover: a cross stitched hoop that talks Multimorbid writing a wreath of purple flowers and green leaves kithbooks.com by @kithbooks
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Date idea: choose any local stagnant fountain and I'll take us to the bottom, skate your fingers through the sludge (my mouth on your wrist),          -   Pond Bitch It's 2004 and 2024 and we're all  "at the circus, for some reason".  In Mall Water, Jaco delves into the hyper self-awareness of existance. It's the stress, it's nascent adulthood, it's just that one hallway and you can avoid it. It's the jeans, but it isn't. You're 17, 20, 24 and washed in the worst kind of lighting. You're alive and real and want people to want you and all of it is the worst kind of embarrassing. You fear the most graphic of tees could not save you, redress facing sideways to save yourself the reflection as you fumble the locks on your door.  kithbooks.com/shop/p/mallwater Release Date: June 30, 2024 Page Count: 80 ISBN: 979-8-9897695-5-1 A pale blue washed photo taken from the Queen Street entrance of the Eaton Centre in Toronto is slashed at a diagonal by a red band with pink and yellow accents that reads "MALL WATER" in white. A smaller rectangle of red lies near the bottom right reading "Jenna Jaco" by @kithbooks
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I loved your mouth. I prayed to it, plucked a verse between my gums. - circa 2014 Janakiraman’s skill lies in distillation, in breath catching pivots hewn down to the spare. We are in every room standing shoulder to shoulder, “feet on the mattress’ edge,” the action preceding, our breath in the air. Desire moves through these poems as a restless wanting: for bodies, for language that “slick-slack-slur[s],” for intimacy, for a new childhood, for what might still become possible. These poems want and want, and in that wanting, they recognize a core disappointment: the quiet sadness of a life imagined as another. Bodies in Phototaxis mines past and present, unveiling a sun-soaked and grieving trans Tamil now. kithbooks.com/shop/p/phototaxis Advance Praise for Bodies in Phototaxis: R. Janakiraman’s collection wrestles with what it means to persevere through our internal strife. With each singing and passion-brimmed poem, Bodies in Phototaxis is a collection of pure energy: epitomizing gender, sexuality, race, and history, Janakiraman launches the reader into a trance of raw devotion. Their collection serves as an almanac for teenage warfare, and there is no poem that does not fulfill the demand of looking into yourself and moving away—or towards—the light. Everything begs to rebel and secede at once. Everything in Bodies in Phototaxis is “splashing in this pool of love”. But as all prodigies do, Janakiraman acknowledges that this love will haunt the page, slowly transfiguring into a presence that follows the reader homeward. This is a collection that recognizes the religions that govern us. This is a collection for the keepsakes we want unearthed. This is a collection that knows how to love and lose. — Jaiden Geolingo, author of How to Migrate Ghosts ISBN:  978-1-964932-34-7 Release Date: October 27, 2026 32 pages Bodies in Phototaxis R. Janakiraman A face emerges from a chaos of choppy black lines on white. Pre-orders are OPEN OUT October 27th by @kithbooks
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i, the  girl turned mockingbird. opening my beak and spilling untruths— pretending i did not need my own voice. tearing my soft, tender insides apart instead.       - mouth & throat In Body, Dissected Ivi Hua roughs out our edges, the points at which the body feels most raw and real. In transition, in the hands of another, in a bright patch of sunlight that highlights a scar. Vivid and drenched in the language of longing, this collection will be familiar to anyone whose sense of settled in their own skin came on fitful and slow. Hua cries out to those who 'kept our pain locked away and secluded, coating the agony in luster,  held knives to our lips' and offers less answer than voice to the choir. I'm here and you've been here, it's time we got out. https://www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/bodydissected Body, Dissected Ivi Hua cover: Cyanotype image of what looks to be flowers under a gathered gauzy fabric. The colours are white for the flowers, green for the leaves, a grey-pink for other flowers, and the background and overall wash of blue. The tile and author's name appear in a white serif font. kithbooks.com by @kithbooks
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Thank You! 23 trans, Crip, queer, & sick writers are embarking this week on a FREE critique journey and it’s all thanks to you. Every book sold supports not only its author but the many incredible trans & Crip voices still yet to come. Crip & trans art forever. We’ve always been here. kithbooks.com Thank You! 23 trans, Crip, queer, & sick writers are embarking this week on a FREE critique journey and it’s all thanks to you. Every book sold supports not only its author but the many incredible trans & Crip voices still yet to come. Crip & trans art forever. We’ve always been here. kithbooks.com by @kithbooks
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"The State of Israel is founded on mythology, and a myth is an incredibly powerful thing...the myths we tell about ourselves, about our communities, and about others, have the capacity to give life or to take it..." . In ...AND THIS WOULD BE MOSHIACH, Leo Rodriguez's follow-up to ERETZ: JEWISH POEMS FOR PALESTINE, the author reflects on one year bearing witness to, and organizing against, Israel's genocide in Gaza. Through poems, essays, and a sprinkling of midrash, Rodriguez weaves a path that stretches back to the origins of Zionism, through their own complex religious and political journey, into the present-day horrors of the Israeli occupation. They wrestle with their place in the ethnoreligious hierarchy of America, explore grief and activism as spiritual pathways, and offer a vision of the future defined by interfaith solidarity. "I hope," Rodriguez writes, "to peel away the destructive false narratives that have been told to us about Israel, about Jews, about Palestinians...I am an anti-Zionist Jew. We are not a myth. A Judaism free of Zionism, free of Israel, is not a myth. Jewish-Muslim solidarity and love is not a myth." https://www.kithbooks.com/shop/p/moshiach ...and this would be Moshiach Leo Rose Rodriguez cover: an olive tree rendered in white and green on a background of black with red text kithbooks.com by @kithbooks
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congrats to kith's 2026 Lammy nominees! If you're looking for the best in trans poetry, why not get a jump? Direct Address Robin Arble @robinrobinrobibn The Death of the Cult Classic K. Blair @urban_barbarian 36 Views of My Breasts: A trans body memoir Billie Sainwood @billietriestowrite Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth Nivik Another double text K Angel @someimpropernoun kithbooks.com/shop Congratulations 2026 Lammy Award Nominees Direct Address Robin Arble The Death of the Cult Classic K. Blair 36 Views of My Breasts: A trans body memoir Billie Sainwood Like Blood on a Dog's Teeth Nivik Another double text K Angel kithbooks.com by @kithbooks
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here i am, pry me open is three!!! i'm not afraid of dying i'm afraid of dying & not staying dead. i'm afraid of spontaneous human combustion & i'm afraid of proving myself right. i'm afraid of the mess that's been made of my thoughts. - INWARDS / INNARDS HERE I AM, PRY ME OPEN is nine months of outpouring & stopped & erupting emotion. six months of pre top surgery poetry & 3 months of post-op. woven within these poems are stories St. Cloud can't stop telling, thoughts he can't help but keep thinking, spirals & cycles he’s been unravelling; in these poems St. Cloud finally gives voice to some of his most powerful demons. here i am, pry me open Atlas St. Cloud cover: cropped section of a sepia toned painting depicting the wound in Christ's side kithbooks.com by @kithbooks
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It’s how persons grow while sleeping Like scabs have no feeling But cover the skin-to-be (It will feel later) It’s how this person must always Be incapable try to make dinner Time this normality (Can she do it?) - Child World In Holds Up When Shattered, Andrew writes into the breaking that comes with adulthood, the hard rush of insecurity and disorientation that fills in the corners when we leave child behind. These are poems of love, strength, a search and tentative finding of self. Andrew’s eye for beauty and hope in all the small moments guides us through the turmoil of motherhood, marriage, and the building of home. kithbooks.com/shop/p/shattered Release Date: April 8, 2024 ISBN: 979-8-9897695-3-7 32 Pages Holds Up When Shattered Merri Andrew A close up photo of glass fracturing out from an impact point near the center top of the image. The reflected image shows the interior of a parking structure painted white with sporadic graffiti in black and red. A banner of robin's egg blue spans the bottom of the cover bearing the title and author's name in very dark brown. by @kithbooks
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"Say a prayer for the house on fire and the father who started it." Dirt Roads and night drives course through this collection. Each poem a headlight flash on hexagon, every page turn a decision to hold speed, roll backward, or stop. Mothers and fathers and the bare earth that birthed us, what goes and what carries, what grows into You? kithbooks.com/shop/p/beastcountry Beast Country - K. Christopherson A grey and black tinted image of densely intertwined branches crossed horizontally near the bottom with a red band bearing the title in all caps black text above a black band reading K. Christopherson in grey all caps. by @kithbooks
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“You’re an animal. We’re all animals. Even you, son.” Lewis has lost his dog Wolfie, his best friend in the world. Wearing her tag on a chain around his neck, Lewis is headed to the Painted Rocks National Lakeshore for a weekend of backpacking with three rowdy, aspiring Eagle Scouts and their Scoutmaster Ben, a struggling alcoholic. To survive the weekend, and the untethered hostility of Ben’s closeted son, Rhys, Lewis will have to hold onto his memories of Wolfie as tight as he can. kithbooks.com/shop/p/paintedrocks “Caught in that adolescent space between erotica and pain, the numb lip and the fist, we encounter a misfit troop of Scouts plunging with all their baggage into the scrub of Michigan's lakeside Upper Peninsula.” - Colin Gee, founder and editor of The Gorko Gazette “Painted Rocks lays bare the rituals of masculinity that corrupt us, kill us, and keep us apart. Wilson's stunningly brutal prose is both gut-punch and heartstring-tug—the blood-suckle of mosquitos, the impact of fists on flesh, the dead weight of unrealized desire.” - K. Christopherson, author of Beast Country “Painted Rocks is as brutal and sensitive as an adolescent boy's heart tuned to the erotic space where attraction and repulsion form the self. A tense and sensuous debut that shivers with subtle weirdness. Parker's prose flexes and relaxes on the page, blurring the boundaries between bodies, both human and nonhuman, entangling humans with the body of the land as it all competes for blood and love.” - Kyle E. Miller, author of the forthcoming novel, The Idiot's Garden Release date: May 27, 2025 ISBN: 978-1-964932-13-2 80 pages Painted Rocks Parker Wilson cover: A greyscale photo of the author in his boy scout's uniform, hand on hip, turned slightly to the viewer's right, with the head of an alligator graffitied in black marker obscuring his head. by @kithbooks
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It was in the winter of 1876 that I arrived at Dreadwood Estate... When Sabrina Crowvin is orphaned, she is sent to Dreadwood Estate to stay with her last remaining family members, two brothers named Avenal and Quillon. Meeting her cousins for the first time, Sabrina discovers she may not be alone. As worrisome messages begin to arrive in the snow outside without explanation, Sabrina begins to suspect there may be more to Dreadwood and her cousins than she understands As winter whips at the windows, Sabrina wonders and worries about what lies within. kithbooks.com/shop Reminiscent of M. R. James, this chilling ghost story is a perfect read for the dead of winter. - Sophie Ingley, author of Eeriella: Super-Fiend! A Haunting Most Cold is the perfect chilling read for when you're curled up by the fire. Equal parts cozy and unsettling, Carter has supplied us with a gripping read that you won't be able to put down.                     - Cat Voleur, author of Revenge Arc A Haunting Most Cold Lauren Carter A stately house in the Victorian style nestled in trees and laden with snow. The title and author's name appear in a large gothic script. The image is rendered in shades of white and teal. by @kithbooks
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