Argos Books

06/01/2023

Poet Mary Norbert Korte, who died last November at age 88, was known as a beatnik nun who left the Dominican Order to join San Francisco’s poetry scene, and as an off-grid eco-warrior who preserved more than 400 acres of old-growth redwood forest in Mendocino County, Calif. Though Korte operated under the mainstream radar, she won counterculture literary admirers. In Jumping into the American River: New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1, due out June 1 from Argos Books and TKS Books, coeditors Iris Cushing and Jason Weiss reintroduce Korte’s place-based poetry and her remarkable life in Northern California.

Mary Norbert Korte, a beatnik nun who left the Dominican Order to join San Francisco’s poetry scene and an off-grid eco-warrior who preserved more than 400 acres of old-growth redwood forest, died last November at age 88. Indie publishing is keeping her work alive.

04/13/2023

How We Kill a Glove by Ma Lan (tr. Charles Laughlin, Martine Bellen) is included in
THE BEST CHINESE FICTION IN TRANSLATION OF 2023 – SO FAR !

From a reprint of Lao She's Mr Ma and Son, to Dorothy Tse's Owlish, here's what Chinese fiction in translation to read this month

03/17/2021

Beyond excited to announce that I Love You and I’m Not Dead by Sade LaNay is finalist for the Lamda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry! Congratulations Sade!!

Announcing the 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalists, selected from more than 1,000 book submissions by over 300 publishers

07/09/2020

What kinds of errant crystals has Sade LaNay placed upon their throat to make these polyvocalities so audible? So that from the violated archives of Black history, LaNay makes a clearing for a fugitive chorus — poets, organizers, librarians, educators, reverends, —who refuse to negotiate on the prisms of Black life. I Love You and I’m Not Dead requests your care and attention without promising anything in return: clarity, closure, reconciliation. If, as LaNay articulates, the afterlives of chattel slavery are made intimate in the trauma of everyday enfleshment, Black femme languaging, Black femme imaginative labor might be a space to configure radical kinships across time. Who can be ready for the brilliance in these pages, for the “demonic grounds” the book insists upon, for the trajectories LaNay’s poiesis has carved out and to which we must now attend?

–Jennif(f)er Tamayo

What kinds of errant crystals has Sade LaNay placed upon their throat to make these polyvocalities so audible? So that from the violated archives of Black history, LaNay makes a clearing for a fugitive chorus — poets, organizers, librarians, educators, reverends, —who refuse to negotiate on the ...

10/16/2019

Congratulations Athena Farrokhzad and Jen Hayashida! We were thrilled to see White Blight receive an honorable mention on this incredible list!

Friends, it’s true: the end of the decade approaches. It’s been a difficult, anxiety-provoking, morally compromised decade, but at least it’s been populated by some damn fine lite…

04/03/2019

New work from Marina Blitshteyn up at Hyperallergic !!

Our poetry editor, Wendy Xu, has selected two poems by Marina Blitshteyn for her monthly series that brings original poetry to the screens of Hyperallergic readers.

02/02/2019

Ask a literarily inclined friend who wrote the first autobiography and they might mention in passing short works by Cicero or Saint Paul, but they’ll ultimately land on the book-length account Augu…