FlowerSong Press

09/23/2025

09/23/2025

BLOODLINES by Bianca V. Gonzalez Perez

BLOODLINES is a reclamation of deeply embedded memory and cultural patterns. The poems work to excavate that-which-is-never-said in a staggering, endearing remake of family narrative and trauma. From nostalgic images of desert and poverty, to yearnings for the continuation of a bloodline, this collection generates a contemporary conversation of what it means to be from the Borderlands. Certain poems shower themselves with bravery, by using addresses, names, and locations, to mentioning real-life Borderland crises. In the titular poem “Bloodlines,” the author writes, “I could not deny . . . This writing of remembrance”. The lines warrant direct attention to the happenings of the speaker’s everyday life as caused by generational wounds. By revisiting place and memory, with poems like “Her Body” and “Broken Inglish,” the poet uses reconstruction as a means to develop a world in which she never lived in, but feels is ultimately her own. Honoring the traditional symbolism of Southwestern literature, BLOODLINES is a dynamic series of cultural imagery and prophecy, continually braiding life cycles with the natural flow of the river and commemorating what the river meant for a generation.

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BLOODLINES is a reclamation of deeply embedded memory and cultural patterns. The poems work to excavate that-which-is-never-said in a staggering, endearing remake of family narrative and trauma. From nostalgic images of desert and poverty, to yearnings for the continuation of a bloodline, this colle

09/21/2025

Vessels: A Memoir of Borders by Michelle Otero

There are borders other than those between countries, borders between man and woman, sanity and madness, living and dead. These borders shift.” Vessels dwell in the borderlands.

From this place, Michelle Otero turns to the seven directions and calls on Coyolxauhqui, Malinche, and her ancestors to answer the question, How do we put ourselves back together? Through memory, ceremonia, and testimonio, Vessels guides the reader through the long shadows of war, trauma, and death, lighting the way with the promise of wholeness and healing.

Original art for cover by Anel Flores

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There are borders other than those between countries, borders between man and woman, sanity and madness, living and dead. These borders shift.” Vessels dwell in the borderlands. From this place, Michelle Otero turns to the seven directions and calls on Coyolxauhqui, Malinche, and her ancestors to

09/20/2025

Get your manuscripts ready! The Aldama Brown Ink Literary Award will open for submission on September 1st seeking innovative visual storytelling manuscripts across all genres. We welcome submissions in English, Spanish/English, and Spanish from writers of any citizenship. For more information visit www.flowersongpress.com

09/17/2025

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Not Quite A Disaster After All by Buku Sarkar

In this house filled with voices and footsteps, a time allowed and a time needed to bridge the discrepancy between who you were and who you wanted to become. Under the canopy of the day, you could see, from this distance, how shattered the world was that we lived in and how beautiful its dust.



In six haunting stories that span two continents and two decades, we follow Anjali, misfit, the expensively educated daughter of a wealthy family, from her childhood in Calcutta to her coming of age in New York City, claiming the grimy dive bars of the East Village as her own.

We also see her childhood friend Anita, who struggles with the quieter life, marriage, and motherhood she has chosen, in a suburb of Ohio.

These are women who muster all their grit and resolve in order to make their way.

Not Quite A Disaster After All is about how our expectations of life shift and change, how they can be pushed in the most unpredictable ways. It is about the thin line between self-destruction and survival. It is also a novel about falling in love—with a person, a city, or simply with the alluring, exciting promise of the new.

Deceptively simple and gently ironic, these nuanced stories of great depth and power mark the arrival of an outstanding voice.

In this house filled with voices and footsteps, a time allowed and a time needed to bridge the discrepancy between who you were and who you wanted to become. Under the canopy of the day, you could see, from this distance, how shattered the world was that we lived in and how beautiful its dust.

09/17/2025

Coming soon from FlowerSong Press

Cicatrizing the Daughters by Samantha Moe

Cicatrizing the Daughters is a collection of liminal spaces, moving from New York City apartments and streets to the houses and backroads of suburbs. Weaving together gastronomy, fantasy, and ecology, these poems tell the stories of queerness and love as it shifts between landscapes and haunted spaces. The speaker(s) are working in restaurants and kitchens, trying to (re)claim their identities and stories, and maybe saving themselves in the process.

https://www.flowersongpress.com/books/p/cicatrizing-the-daughters-by-samantha-moe

Edward Vidaurre

Cicatrizing the Daughters is a collection of liminal spaces, moving from New York City apartments and streets to the houses and backroads of suburbs. Weaving together gastronomy, fantasy, and ecology, these poems tell the stories of queerness and love as it shifts between landscapes and haunted s

09/10/2025

GAY POETICS OF THE PASSION is a finalist for the International Latino Book Award for Best LGBTQ+ Book 🏳️‍🌈 & is an honorable mention for Best Cover Illustration or Photo & for The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award !!!