Let's fight the fash.

Join Unlikely Books at the 2026 AWP Conference in Baltimore in March!

And get ready for the New Orleans Poetry Festival in April!

"sea gooseberry," "winter solstice memory," and "sunset"

by Karl Kempton

page one of sea gooseberry, a visual poem

"Grounding a Beef" and "Standing Wet in the Random"

by Vernon Frazer

Thirteen Photographs, October 2025

by Pat Jolly

One Night on Live at Five

by David E. Matthews

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"Spells for the Wicked" virtual book release party

with Caroline Hagood, dan raphael, Tara Campbell, and Marc Vincenz

Paintings and Images, May 2025

by Jamie Chiarello

'The Center Cannot Hold', Oil on panel, 8" x 10", 2025

'What the Shoreline Was', Oil on Yupo paper, 5" x 7", 2024

"Peoples Laws" and "Midnight in Zamorra"

by Cecelia Chapman

October 19, 1983, a firing squad led by Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard, machine-gunned Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and members of the New Jewel Movement in the Fort Rupert courtyard. On 25 October, the USA invaded Granada.

One Hundred Thousand Steps

by Victor McConnell

He knows the end is near when he begins to dream of himself as he is, rather than as he was. No more dreams of bounding through the woods, rows of trees admiring his movement and cheering as he passes.

Unknown to Himself

by A Sardine on Vacation

There’s someone out there we’re based on. We learned that from the first Sardine book. Just like Dexter’s based on someone who probably worked at an Ecclesiastical Vestment shop.

Diamond Plate

by Mark Rowland

Alright Mumma, I’ll give you a hug. You take my daylight from me, you take my body from me, and now you take my friend from me. But you’re that one habit I just can’t seem to kick.

Nocturnal Activities

by James Hannan

Did he follow her around like a puppy? Watch over her? Do everything for her? Think of everything for her, but not really everything, only the things he could imagine? Perhaps she liked it for a while, and then didn’t.

"The War Room," "A Capitalist Loves You," and "A Marketer Loves You"

by Salix Thelema Rausmend

Elbow grease to help you? No,
I’d rather sell you soap
and say you’re dirty. Flirty semblances
of insecurity flare up
and bite you on the knee

The Interrogator and the Terrorist

by Ken Wetherington

The mushroom cloud bloomed in malignant symmetry. Luna City, twenty million people, gone. Across the conference table, Kev let out a gasp. Beside me, Cierra sobbed uncontrollably and bowed her head.

"Emancipate the Free," "Presence on Earth," and "Do You Know Where Your Entanglement Is?"

by James Grabill

Hook a fish, and she’ll fight for her freedom.
Remove her from seawater
and she’s like a person pulled down
into crushing dark where she’ll thrash for breath.

Four O’Clock

by Shae

The cones soften.
The children smile.
It’s always like this:
too sweet to swallow,
too sacred to drop.

Hospitals in Winter

by Ben Macnair

He took a bite of Mrs. Higginbottom’s cheese scone—it was magnificent, robust, and slightly stale—and then he began to laugh, a loud, raw sound that was immediately swallowed by the perfect, liberating silence of the winter storm.