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Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.


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Huge congratulations to David Szalay, whose novel FLESH has won the 2025 Booker Prize! 🎉🎉 Did you know Graywolf published Szalay's previous novels ALL THAT MAN IS (a Booker finalist), LONDON AND THE SOUTH-EAST, and SPRING? Stock up:

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November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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You can hear Brandon Kilbourne read from Natural History this Wednesday at the U's @bellmuseum.bsky.social! @graywolfpress.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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New #poetry #books from Texas Review Press, The Song Cave, Clemson University Press, Indiana University Press, City Lights Publishers, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, CavanKerry Press, Green Writers Press, Penguin Books & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...
New Poetry Titles (11/4/25)
Check out new poetry books for the week of 11/4 from Texas Review Press, The Song Cave, Clemson University Press, Indiana University Press, Bordighera Press, White Pine Press, City Lights Publishers, ...
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November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Read a review of FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez (out this month with @graywolfpress.bsky.social , tr. Natasha Wimmer) in @nytimes.com!

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Forget Nostalgia: The Exiles in This Dreamlike Novel Are Angry
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November 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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“Few other poets today operate in this genre of poetics, specifically eco-poetics and Anthropocene poetics.“

Excerpt from review of Natural History by Brandon Kilbourne, new from @graywolfpress.bsky.social .

Read the full review at the link below:

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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Read @graywolfpress.bsky.social poetry this #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth!

Natalie Diaz’s POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM “demands that every body carried in its pages ... be touched and held as beloveds.”
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Postcolonial Love Poem | Graywolf Press
Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering…
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November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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THE YEAR OF THE WIND by KARINA PACHECO MEDRANO and translated by Mara Faye Lethem via @graywolfpress.bsky.social is a meditation on responsibility, grief, reconciliation set in strife-riven 80s Peru. #Booksky
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THE YEAR OF THE WIND, responsibility, grief, reconciliation in strife-riven 80s Peru
THE YEAR OF THE WIND KARINA PACHECO MEDRANO (tr. Mara Faye Lethem) Graywolf Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $9.99 ebook, av...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I'm so thrilled we can finally share the beautiful cover for Earth 7 by @debolinunferth.bsky.social featuring luminous art by @ehaidle.bsky.social. @electricliterature.com has the scoop and @graywolfpress.bsky.social has the book!

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Exclusive Cover Reveal of "Earth 7" by Deb Olin Unferth - Electric Literature
An isolated rocket zooms over deep, watercolor blues of outer space, reflecting the loneliness, diversity, and resilience of our planet
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November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King @linkinglionking.bsky.social, ed. Yuka Igarashi, pub. Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social!

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November 7, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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@coryoldweiler.bsky.social examines FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez. In this choral novel, characters navigate a purgatory of displacement and existential uncertainty, akin to the DIVINE COMEDY. Read Oldweiler’s book review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

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BOOK REVIEW “The collective isolation captured in False War is told via nearly two dozen voices desperate for some sort of comfort or compassion—whether from the touch of another’s body, the oblivion of illicit drugs, the sound of a familiar accent, or the recognition of common experience—whatever can get them through one more night.”“'An Inexpressible Void': Exile and Longing in Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s 'False War'" by Cory Oldweiler. Image: Book Cover
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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"A modern search for meaning, but also an escape from the oppressive logic of power."

Joe Stanek's review of “False War” by Carlos Manuel Álvarez (@graywolfpress.bsky.social) is out now.
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Cubans Outrun the Logic of Power in “False War” - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Carlos Manuel Álvarez's new book, "False War," translated by Natasha Wimmer.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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“Music merges you and keeps you separate.” On the heels of the NYC Marathon, Ben Ratliff reflects on Run the Song—his new book about running, listening, and how music helps us find form. @graywolfpress.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...
Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast
A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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“I really do think that as music changes us, we change music.” Mighty critic Ben Ratliff on how his running practice revealed new ways of hearing Sade, Arsenio Rodriguez, Thelonius Monk, and more. His new book, RUN THE SONG, is out from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...
Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast
A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Happy pub. day to Karina Pacheco Medrano's THE YEAR OF THE WIND (trans. Mara Faye Lethem), Carlos Manuel Álvarez's FALSE WAR (trans. Natasha Wimmer), and Brandon Kilbourne's NATURAL HISTORY! 🎉🎉🎉
November 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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I’m very excited this video essay I made just went up on Graywolf Lab! It’s about who we become in online spaces and also a bit of a diss track against Q*Bert

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Bitmapped Character
Marthea Webber Marthea Webber (she/her) writes and teaches in Goleta, California. She is an expert at loving dogs and ointmenting their eyes. Her writing has appeared in Bending Genres, Hearth &amp…
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November 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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“The pain of trying to get it right is called maundering. / The pleasure is all mine. / Some say adjustable furniture is articulate. / No worthwhile poem should completely behave.” —Dobby Gibson, “Getting It Right” @theiowareview.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social
GETTING IT RIGHT. When you can’t get out of bed, it’s called dysania. The smell after it rains is called petrichor. The way certain words sing. The song of any animal is called its call. No one has ever known exactly what I’ve meant. To go ahead and say it anyways is to blaze. Bird is the word. Bird bird bird. Zookeeper, take your keys and leave me alone. If the fire extinguishes itself, we claim good fortune. When a pope turns himself into smoke, we declare a miracle. The remainder is what’s left behind. Have a look at those velvet slippers! Over there is his golden ring. The pain of trying to get it right is called maundering. The pleasure is all mine. Some say adjustable furniture is articulate. No worthwhile poem should completely behave. Naughty is an Old English word that once meant nothing, but this feeling of getting away with something, just by saying it, is never nothing. Driving someone else’s pickup pulling a long white trailer full of sleeping horses. Dobby Gibson
November 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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@donikakelly.bsky.social's new poetry collection is called THE NATURAL ORDER OF THINGS (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). It’s about life, love, family and intimacy and what it’s like to experience happinesson the other side of a long darkness.

Enjoy!

🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Yesterday's excellent book mail from @graywolfpress.bsky.social!
Questions 27 & 28 The Memory Museum
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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“A passionate paean to life’s wonders.”

Thank you so very much, Kirkus, for reading DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL and for this wonderful review, available in its entirety at: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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November 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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See Karina Pacheco Medrano on tour this November for THE YEAR OF THE WIND!

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Karina Pacheco Medrano on tour for The Year of the Wind: 11/6 @ 4:45 PM | St. Paul, MN Macalester College 11/8 @ 5:30 PM | Chicago, IL DePaul University 11/10 @ 10 AM | Orono, ME University of Maine 11/12 @ 7 PM | Waterville, ME Colby College 11/14 @ 4:30 PM | New Orleans, LA Tulane University 11/19 @ 10:40 AM | Princeton, NJ Princeton University
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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1️⃣ week from today! Bay area wolves, don't miss this extra-special event with poet Mai Der Vang and artist Tiffany Chung to celebrate the launch of their collaborative broadside with Arion Press. Get your tickets here:

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ARION PRESS & GRAYWOLF PRESS present Mai Der Vang in conversation with Tiffany Chung to celebrate their collaborative broadside November 6 @ 7:00 PM Bayfront Theater San Francisco, CA visit www.graywolfpress.org/events
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Listen to @maxdelsohn.bsky.social read from CRAWL on the First Taste Reading Series!

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October 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Holy crap, everyone: new Maile Chapman novel in 2026, her first in 15 years. So freaking excited. Love that cover, too:
Cover for maile’s THE SPOIL—closeup of a fly
October 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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🆕 on Lab Games: @adrie-rose.bsky.social's "Dear," selected from the open submission call. Read the full poem here:

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“There is work to be done, there / is work here that can be done. I gather tulips in / every color, I plant more chestnut trees, I catch / more fish. I tell myself J is not bleeding. They / are sleeping. I tell myself G is not sick yet. I do / not have a body as long as they have bodies. I / ask the ghost bears for another job. We do not / have bodies as long as I play the game.” —Adrie Rose, from “Dear,”
October 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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#SneakPeek 👀 Aea Varfis-van Warmelo's ATTENTION-SEEKING BEHAVIOR—a confession from a liar that exposes the interrelation of language, control, performance, intimacy, and love—is out May 19, 2026.⁠ @aeavvw.bsky.social

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The cover of Aea Varfis-van Warmelo's novel "Attention-Seeking Behavior" shows a sliver of a face peeking through a gap between two pink walls.
October 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM