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What’s not to love? Download valentine’s day travelog now on our site (linked in bio).

Titles are only $5 via instant download, and all proceeds go to our authors.

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September 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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This passage, from “val’s day, 2008,” blew us away.

Download this impactful chapbook, through the link in our bio.

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September 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Sylvester is having a love affair with poetry, and we’re having a love affair with his.

Download valentine’s day travelog for only $5.

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September 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Enjoy this reading of “14 février 2005” by Sylvester Kwakye, from his book valentine’s day travelog, available now through Whittle Micro-Press.

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September 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Here’s to unicorn days. May they never end in before.

Download Sylvester Kwakye’s valentine’s day travelog for $5, link in bio.

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September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Sylvester Kwayke’s valentine’s day travelog is now available for only $5.

You’ll want to take this journey. All proceeds go to Sylvester.

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #smallpress #valentinesdaytravelog #sylvesterkwakye
September 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Get to know Sylvester Kwakye’s work before the release of valentine’s day travelog (Sept 1) with “powerpoint presentation to villagetude,” first published in @callaloojournal.bsky.social.

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August 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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“we’re willing / to fail & fail / again & again.”

Alex Stolis’ Soundtrack captures the ache of on-again off-again love through musical memory.

Just $5 from Whittle Micro-Press.

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August 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Alex Stolis wrote Soundtrack nearly a decade ago, capturing the early moments of his journey.

He says, “writing out of my comfort zone has enabled me to grow.”

Soundtrack is just $5.

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August 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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With its focus on “how we define moments in time and associate them with a particular song,” we had an emotional response to reading Alex Stolis’ Soundtrack, and we think you will, too.

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #soundtrack #alexstolis
August 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Photos by Alex Stolis capture the heart of his collection Soundtrack.

See the full collection on our IG @whittlemicropress & grab the chapbook on our site for $5.

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #poetrycommunity #indiebooks #smallpress #soundtrack #alexstolis
August 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Personal as it is, Alex Stolis’ Soundtrack puts into words feelings we may all have felt, but don’t know how to express.

Soundtrack now available for download, at $5.

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #poetrycommunity #indiebooks #smallpress #soundtrack #alexstolis
August 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Alex Stolis’ collection, Soundtrack, which ruminates on the ways music can evoke memory, is available now for instant download!

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July 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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To get you ready for Soundtrack, read “Telling Dad the trials and tribulations of Atomic City (Minneapolis Radiation Oncology)” by Alex Stolis.

Published in One Art.

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July 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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“Music never lies.” Soundtrack by Alex Stolis will be available July 31 and is infinitely relatable.

Enjoy this one and more by downloading for $5.

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July 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Whittle is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Give Sorrow by Eilinor Ann Walker, a requiem in fragments that gathers “elegiac” lines to speak when words fail.

Arriving March 2026.

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiebooks #smallpress #elinorannwalker #givesorrow
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Our catalog features titles by Kelly R. Samuels, Cyril Wong, Abbie Kiefer, Lauren Davis, Miranda Dennis, Katherine Fallon, & Roseanna Alice Boswell.

All proceeds go to authors!

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July 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Whittle is happy to announce the acquisition of VOIDGAZING by mk zariel, which in exploring digital space and gender, is both “tender and insurgent.”

VOIDGAZING will be available May 2026.

#chapbooks #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #queerpoetry #mkzariel #voidgazing
July 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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“‘I Want You to Want Me’ comes on and it's back to high school, drinking warm beer.”

- Alex Stolis, on Soundtrack, available on July 31.

Photos by Stolis.

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #poetrycommunity #smallpress #soundtrack #alexstolis
July 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Whittle is proud to announce the acquisition of LJ Ireton’s Unclaimed— lyrical poetry giving voice to Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Available in Feb. 2026.

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #unclaimed #queens #ljireton
July 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Whittle received so many strong manuscripts, we had to close subs early—for the first time ever.

We're thrilled with the 2026 lineup and can't wait to share each poet's work!

#chapbooks #indiepoetry #smallpress #poetrycommunity #indieauthors
July 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Whittle is proud to announce the acquisition of Allegra Wilson’s Sex Party at the Opera House, which celebrates “queer sex and desire as ancient, ornately beautiful, and revolutionary.”

Sex Party at the Opera House will be available in December 2025.

#indiepoets #queerpoetry #allegrawilson
July 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Lauren Davis, author of Sivvy, has recently released her debut fiction collection.

Available for purchase @yesyesbooks.bsky.social

#chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #indiebooks #smallpress #sivvy #laurendavis #sylviaplath #thenothing
July 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Whittle is proud to announce the acquisition of nat raum’s april, buttersoft, which “luxuriates in poetry of the everyday, grounded in equal parts lyricism and sensory detail.”

april, buttersoft will be available in November 2025.

#digitalpublishing #newacquisition #aprilbuttersoft #natraum
June 26, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Of this poem, Miranda Dennis writes, “What does it mean to be disinherited? What does it mean to lose the meager empire you gained through all the bone-rotting compromises you made? What does it mean when loss comes at your own hand, the axe that finally fells the great old tree?”
June 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM