{"title":"July 2025 releases","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"pre-order-voice-poems-by-susan-azar-porterfield","title":"Voice\/Poems by Susan Azar Porterfield","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(34, 34, 34, 1);\"\u003eIn Susan Azar Porterfield's\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(34, 34, 34, 1);\"\u003e Voice\/Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(34, 34, 34, 1);\"\u003e, readers will encounter various voices, not all of them sanguine. Some are testy, others reverential. Some are humorous, others not so much. The reader can expect a guide, but the guides may not bother to be consistent. Graceful and intimate, Voice\/Poems plucks individual moments from the flow of time to show us how crazy remarkable our ordinary, day-in and day-out, lives are. We are a multitude and a solitude, \"a glory, tiny veins in our fingers,\/pulley of skin working index and thumb.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eIn these stunning, delicate poems, there is a fierce intelligence and a great tenderness. Susan Azar Porterfield is a master of restraint and deeply mines the domestic interior of her life in poem after poem. Through her speakers, she offers us meditations on family, loss, and presents us with the beauty of her lush mind. I am thoroughly moved by Susan's poems, and I highly recommend this new collection. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e—Zeeshan Pathan\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003eAuthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Minister of Disturbances\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVoice\/Poems is Susan Azar Porterfield's fourth book of poetry. Susan Azar Porterfield was born in Chicago to a Lebanese father and a mother from rural Arkansas. She was the first in her family to attend college. She has a Ph.D. in Nineteenth-Century British literature and an M.A. in art from the Courtauld Institute in London. She received an Illinois Arts Council Award for Poetry and was featured on the Chicago WTTW 11, Arts Across Illinois program. She is a recipient of a Fulbright to Lebanon. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49316105879856,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/VoicePoemsCover.jpg?v=1733406277"},{"product_id":"pre-order-splice-by-anthony-borruso","title":"Splice by Anthony Borruso","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"inplace-html form-control-plaintext\"\u003eWinner of the 2024 Louise Bogan Award, Anthony Borruso's \u003cem\u003eSplice \u003c\/em\u003emelds contemporary pop culture with enduring questions. This dynamic, sometimes darkly humorous montage of identity, chronic illness, and artistic homage examines the concept of selfhood. Navigating a disorienting experience of a chronic illness where thoughts \"get stopped up \/ like an autumn gutter,\" the speaker shape-shifts into a multitude of voices that reconcile and congeal a fragmented existence. \u003cem\u003eSplice \u003c\/em\u003eultimately explores our constant cycle of reinvention and imitation, an engine that both holds us back and moves us forward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Borruso\u003c\/strong\u003e is the winner of the Louise Bogan Excellence in Poetry Award for his first collection, Splice; He is a former editor of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eSoutheast Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a 2023 Best New Poet and was selected as a finalist for \u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e's Adrienne Rich Award by Natasha Trethewey. His poems have been published in \u003cem\u003eDenver Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Pleiades, The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, THRUSH, Gulf Coast, CutBank, Frontier\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49344451346736,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/SpliceFrontCover.jpg?v=1734115258"},{"product_id":"pre-order-the-grace-of-black-mothers-by-martheaus-perkins","title":"The Grace of Black Mothers by Martheaus Perkins","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarried within Martheaus Perkins' \u003cem\u003eThe Grace of Black Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered dreams by boldly finding grace through our Black mothers, aunties, and grannies. The work invites the reader into a yard where \"whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America\" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrina Fulton, Harriet Tubman, and the author's own mothers guide us as we \"wander streets like cartographers of poverty\" and hold our \"promises to come home.\" Perkins shows his craft by shapeshifting through fighting game menus, optometry charts, screenplays, pirate codes, social media threads, and forms that embody dreams themselves. \u003cem\u003eThe Grace of Black Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartheaus Perkins\u003c\/strong\u003e was born to a single mother in Center, Texas. After a childhood in and out of homes in Houston, he graduated from Stephen F. 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Currently, he lives in the DMV with fellow writers of the \"International House of Poets.\" The name \"Martheaus\" is a collection of each woman who raise him: \"Mar-\" for his grandmother's nickname, \"-Thea-\" for his mother's name, and \"-us\" for his big aunties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49344461603120,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/9781949487428PerkinsCover.jpg?v=1734115420"},{"product_id":"pre-order-rooms-for-the-dead-and-the-not-yet-by-rhoni-blankenhorn","title":"Rooms for the Dead and the Not Yet by Rhoni Blankenhorn","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWinner of the 2024 Trio Award, \u003cem\u003eRooms for the Dead and the Not Yet \u003c\/em\u003eexplores landscapes of grief, desire, and identity. How does memory collapse time? In what ways do mourning and longing echo each other? What violence persists beneath narrative and aesthetic surfaces, upholding systems of belief and power? This debut poetry collection revolves around imagination as an act of resilience and rebellion. Blankenhorn’s speaker communes with dead beloveds while buttering toast, petting dogs, kissing lovers, making art, holding hands with friends, and traversing cities and deserts. The beauty and comedy of daily life becomes a provocation into nonlinearity, sexuality, family history, and multiracial selfhood. Slipping between exterior and interior with an unflinching gaze, \u003cem\u003eRooms for the Dead and the Not Yet \u003c\/em\u003einvites us to embrace the impossible complexity of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49355205542192,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/IMG_3612.jpg?v=1735003725"},{"product_id":"pre-order-mele-by-kalehua-kim","title":"Mele by Kalehua Kim","description":"\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003ci style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0,0,0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"border: 1pt; padding: 0in; font-family: aptos,sans-serif; color: black;\"\u003eMele\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt; padding: 0in; color: black;\"\u003e, by Kalehua Kim, embodies the meaning of the word “mele” – a Hawaiian song or chant traditionally used to preserve history through the oral tradition. Winner of the Trio House Press Editor’s Choice Prize, Kim’s debut collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline!important; color: rgb(0,0,0);\"\u003e evokes modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of family and self, as well as the grace and generosity of healing, acknowledgement, and commemoration. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: aptos,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; border: 1pt; padding: 0in; color: black;\"\u003eThe poems reflect on what we inherit and how who we become is intertwined with who our parents were and are, and the pain of facing that reality: “One day your voice will become mine,Ka leo o maua\/Though I am not prepared for your end…”  With this mele, Kim honors the memory of a lost mother, as well as the struggles of a daughter as she becomes a wife and mother herself, while honoring her roots and forging a new path.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinging with the manifold tongues of the 'aina, Kalehua Kim gives us mana from the depths of her heart and of the heart of Hawai'i nei. Beautiful!\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Maxine Hong Kingston, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Woman Warrior\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTo read Kalehua Kim's \u003cem\u003eMele\u003c\/em\u003e is to sing through the mossy tendrils of grief - each poem a lush, shell-echoed invocation. Full of visceral language, lyrical rhythm, and expansive form, these poems are layered with matrilineal love, dreamscapes, familial sonnets, contrapuntals, generational choruses, elegies, and tender interiority. Reading \u003cem\u003eMele\u003c\/em\u003e is like pressing a plump poem to your face: \"I roll the mango over my face we are cheek to cheek my mother and me oh, the ripeness of memory.\" Speaking across earthly and ancestral worlds, Kim's poems feel like offerings, replete with chickens and yams and radiating care. This is an evocative collection I will be returning to often, opening up each valve of my heart like \" slices of sea cucumber strewn on the ocean floor,\/ waiting to multiply.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- Jane Wong, author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Not be Afraid of Everything\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMeet Me Tonight in Atlantic City\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49355214750000,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/IMG_3563.jpg?v=1734541943"},{"product_id":"the-grace-of-black-mothers-e-book","title":"The Grace of Black Mothers E-Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis e-book is in e-pub format. You will receive an email after purchase, with a link to download the file. It will auto-load to Apple Books. You can add it to your Kindle by clicking on the file in Finder, choosing \"share file\" and then choosing \"send to Kindle\".\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarried within Martheaus Perkins' \u003cem\u003eThe Grace of Black Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered dreams by boldly finding grace through our Black mothers, aunties, and grannies. The work invites the reader into a yard where \"whisper-thin soul-jazz drips over America\" to flip through a Nile-long family album. Mamie Till-Mobley, Sybrina Fulton, Harriet Tubman, and the author's own mothers guide us as we \"wander streets like cartographers of poverty\" and hold our \"promises to come home.\" Perkins shows his craft by shapeshifting through fighting game menus, optometry charts, screenplays, pirate codes, social media threads, and forms that embody dreams themselves. \u003cem\u003eThe Grace of Black Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection drenched in complexity and nuance: homemade heroes and villains, justice and fabrication, wit and risk, resurrection and erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMartheaus Perkins\u003c\/strong\u003e was born to a single mother in Center, Texas. After a childhood in and out of homes in Houston, he graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University as a first-generation student. 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Currently, he lives in the DMV with fellow writers of the \"International House of Poets.\" The name \"Martheaus\" is a collection of each woman who raise him: \"Mar-\" for his grandmother's nickname, \"-Thea-\" for his mother's name, and \"-us\" for his big aunties.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49927602405680,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/MartheausPerkinsTheGraceofBlackMothersCover.jpg?v=1751242205"},{"product_id":"splice-e-book","title":"Splice E-book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis e-book is in e-pub format. You will receive an email after purchase, with a link to download the file. It will auto-load to Apple Books. 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Splice ultimately explores our constant cycle of reinvention and imitation, an engine that both holds us back and moves us forward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Trio House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49927604011312,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/2482\/3088\/files\/SpliceFrontCover.jpg?v=1734115258"},{"product_id":"mele-e-book","title":"Mele E-book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis e-book is in e-pub format. You will receive an email after purchase, with a link to download the file. It will auto-load to Apple Books. 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