Unsolicited Press

06/05/2025

06/02/2025

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06/02/2025

IN A BROKEN WINDOW by Anne Leigh Parrish
Poetry meets trauma recovery in this lyrical novel about Sam Clark, a poet trying to untangle the wreckage of her past. When she moves to Boston with her seemingly perfect partner Steven, new relationships and long-buried pain force her to confront the question: Can poetry—and connection—heal what was broken?

FIREFALL by Heather Lang-Cassera
These poems don’t whisper—they burn. With lush imagery and precise form, Firefall offers a gorgeous, unsettling meditation on the climate crisis. Rhyming couplets rub shoulders with cyclical pantoums as the world around us unravels. This is poetry for those who love the Earth fiercely—and are terrified for it.

NO PLACE LIKE by Lexie Brooker
What if your reality... glitched? Lexie, a sassy, retired landscape architect, finds herself in a world where the laws of physics (and mortality) don't quite add up. Ghosts on the couch? Check. Alternate dimensions? Possibly. This genre-bending novel offers a mind-twisting, heartfelt journey into identity, memory, and second chances.

06/02/2025

✨ AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT ✨
Douglas Cole, poet of The Cabin at the End of the World, sits down with The Spotlight Network to talk poetry, wild places, and what it means to write from the edge. 🔥

Don’t miss this interview — it’s full of insight, heart, and the kind of creative energy that makes you want to pick up a pen.

📺 Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMUegwh_PU

05/28/2025

📍 SHE WAS HORRID

“She’s a Portland s*x worker who doesn’t want your sympathy. Just your money — and may“She’s a Portland s*x worker who doesn’t want your sympathy. Just your money — and may your secrets.”

📚 Buy now: https://bookshop.org/a/2655/9781956692310

05/24/2025

🔥 New release alert 🔥

Some poetry wounds.
Some poetry heals.
RADIANT WOUND does both.

In her stunning debut, Cara Waterfall navigates the complex layers of Côte d’Ivoire—its pain, resilience, and beauty—after civil war. Through poetry rooted in journalism and lived experience, she gives voice to women, children, and places often left unheard.

Now available wherever you get your poetry.

https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/ebooks/p/radiant-wound

05/23/2025

🌸 May is blooming with powerhouse poetry 🌸

This month, we're ushering in three bold collections that refuse to stay silent:

📖 UNDER THE TENTED SKIN by Kristine Langley Mahler Kubasta
A visceral journey through the rites and ruins of girlhood and womanhood. With folkloric grit and lyrical bite, Kubasta reminds us: “I don’t throw the skins away / and I’ve been known to gnaw a bone.”

📖 RADIANT WOUND by Cara Waterfall
A hauntingly beautiful debut tracing post-war Côte d'Ivoire in all its color, complexity, and contradiction. These poems shimmer with loss, longing, and lush detail—like watching the past move under water.

📖 INTERCEDE: SAINTS FOR CONCERNING OCCASIONS by Jennifer Clark
Saints, but make them messy. In her fourth collection, Clark introduces us to saints with sass, flaws, and heart. Paired with stunning illustrations, these poems walk the tightrope between reverence and irreverence—and leave you grateful for the fall.

✨ May your TBR pile be as fierce as these women. ✨
Which one’s calling to you first? 👇

05/22/2025

📚 Event Alert: S*X WORK IN FICTION, AUTOFICTION, & “OTHER”
🗓 Thursday, May 29, 2025
🕖 7:00–8:30 PM
📍 , Portland

Join us for an unforgettable evening with local journalist and author Michelle Kicherer (✨ Sexy Life, Hello) and writer Morgan Waites (🔥 She Was Horrid) for a reading and juicy convo about s*x work in fiction, autofiction, and that lovely gray area called “other.”

💬 Q&A + Book Signing to follow
🎤 Let’s talk taboo, satire, s*xting, sadomasochism, and falling in (or out of) love.

FREE event, bookish weirdos welcome.

*xworkinfiction

05/21/2025

RADIANT WOUND is both an anthem and a lament, a poetic exploration of life between cultures, languages, and the landscapes of Côte d'Ivoire. In this debut collection, Cara Waterfall captures the vibrant textures and deep dissonances of life abroad after the Second Ivorian Civil War, navigating the complex experience of being a geographical, cultural, and linguistic outsider. Her verses take readers through striking scenes: from the crocodile-guarded presidential palace in Yamoussoukro and the colonial past of Grand-Bassam to the intimate spaces of a woodcarver’s studio and the Gbangbo River, where the laundrymen wash clothes.

Supported by a National Geographic Glimpse Correspondents Program grant in 2012, Waterfall’s poems draw from the stories and encounters she gathered for her features, "Rebelles: Ivoirian women fight for change" and "Art as Reconciliation." Her collection breathes life into voices often unheard, from a young girl making charcoal in San Pedro to HIV-positive women and vulnerable children in Yopougon, and even the neglected animals of the Abidjan Zoo. RADIANT WOUND reflects on tradition, resilience, and survival, bearing witness to the long, imperfect journey toward healing.

✨ RADIANT WOUND is available now.



link: https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/radiant-wound-1

05/16/2025

Meet C. Kubasta—the mind behind UNDER THE TENTED SKIN.
💥 Fun fact: This collection was sparked by a deep dive into what we wear (literally & metaphorically) as women.
💬 What poem or book changed your understanding of girlhood?

05/15/2025

🎉 BIG NEWS! Don't Pity the Desperate has been named a Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards! Huge congrats to Blackmon Moore —your words matter, and now the world knows it too. 💥📚✨