"Each fragment opens a door to the unsaid or the forgotten, letting language bruise and bloom. It is a study in red, in inheritance, in language, and of the quiet haunt of becoming." Read the third, a...

PhillyChapbookReview.org Publishers’ Corner: Poetry titles published in English between 12/21/2023 and 12/27/2023.

Check out new fiction books for the week of 9/29 from Transit Books, Sundial House, Guernica World Editions, RIZE, Modern Artist Press, New Directions, Harper, Ecco, Summit Books, Algonquin Books, Blo...

"Through images of a familiar street, personal belongings, and a figure suspended in time, the poem considers absence, remembrance, and the quiet ways we continue searching for those who are gone." Re...

Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/22 from At Bay Press, BlazeVOX [books], University of Pittsburgh Press, Faber & Faber, House of Anansi Press, Coach House Books, Hub City Press, Copper Canyon Press, Sarabande Books, McClelland & Stewart, Alice James Books, Brick Books, Milkweed Editions & W.W. Norton.

Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/15 from White Stag Publishing, Metatron Press, Perugia Press, Empty Bowl Press, Host Publications, New Directions, Nightwood Editions, University of Pittsb...

Check out new fiction books for the week of 9/15 from Latitude 46, Stanchion, University Of Iowa Press, Semiotext(e), Etruscan Press, Betty, TriQuarterly, Acre Books, White Rabbit, University of Wisco...

"After childbirth, my body became a site of criticism rather than something to be celebrated for what it had endured and created. Writing this became a way to confront that experience..." Read three p...

Check out our round-up of prose chapbooks published in August 2026 by Finishing Line Press, above/ground press, Bottlecap Press & IKE: A Publishing Project.

Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/8 from The University Press of Kentucky, Black Square Editions, Prototype, Cardboard House Press, Caitlin Press, LSU Press, Auckland University Press, Univ...

Check out new fiction books for the week of 9/8 from At Bay Press, Dogstar Press, HarperVia, Arcade, Amistad, Open Letter Books, Running Wild Press, Blackstone Publishing, Scout Press, Random House, F...

Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in August 2026 by Finishing Line Press, above/ground press, Bottlecap Press, Sarabande Books, Small Harbor Publishing, Rockwood Press, Prolific Pul...

"What I tried to trace was the underside. How watching someone closely for long enough becomes a substitute for approaching them." Read the second original fiction piece of the Summer 2026 issue, "Mus...

Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/1 from Mercer University Press, Changes Press, Beautiful Days Press, Lavender Ink / Diálogos, Litmus Press, Unsolicited Press, Gaudy Boy, Green Linden Pres...

Check out new fiction books for the week of 9/1 from Sea Crow Press, University of Georgia Press, University of Pittsburgh Press, Graywolf Press, Pegasus Books, West Virginia University Press, Leapfro...

"These poems try to make sense of how I arrived at a life that probably seems well thought-out, but has been one reactionary choice after another." Read three poems by A.R. Dugan, our fifth biweekly p...

"I am trying to excavate memories. I am trying to negotiate the difficult realities of existing as a brown man in this country and within the consciousness of white America." Read an excerpt from Truo...

Check out new poetry books for the week of 8/25 from Alien Buddha Press, Pulley Press, Boreal Books, Milkweed Editions, Red Hen Press, University of Arizona Press, Wesleyan University Press, Bloodaxe ...

Check out new fiction books for the week of 8/25 from Summit Books, Faber & Faber, Hogarth, Bloomsbury Publishing, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Knopf & HarperVia.

PCR is calling for submissions of original poetry and fiction from August 1 and September 15 for our Fall 2026 issue and beyond. Read this post for details!

Check out new poetry books for the week of 8/18 from Faber & Faber, Madville Publishing, Black Lawrence Press & Sheep Meadow Press.

Check out new fiction book for the week of 8/18 from Graywolf Press, Mariner Books, FSG Originals, Random House & Biblioasis.

"To fit the nuanced, dimensional experience of dysphoria and transition into narrative…often feels flattening, falsely assured. I wanted to look at this discomfort I felt, to see what was necessary in...

Check out our round-up of prose chapbooks published in July 2026 by above/ground press, Bottlecap Press, IKE: A Publishing Project, YesYes Books & Gasher Press.

Check out new poetry books for the week of 8/11 from Sibling Rivalry Press, Broadstone Books, Finishing Line Press, Tupelo Press, TriQuarterly, Caitlin Press, Milkweed Editions, Alice James Books, She...

Check out new fiction books for the week of 8/11 from Stanchion, TRP: The University Press of SHSU, Roseway Publishing, University of Alberta Press, FSG Originals, Hogarth, Random House, Knopf, Dzanc ...

Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in July 2026 by Tupelo Press, Bull City Press, Tough Poets Review, Poetry Society of America, Parlyaree Press, Rockwood Press, Broadstone Books, ki...

"'Nova' is a lyrical second-person story about the narrator’s first true encounter with death...the story presents loss not as beautiful in itself, but as the place where beauty begins." Read the firs...

Check out new poetry books for the week of 8/4 from Mercer University Press, Black Square Editions, Seagull Books, LSU Press, Tia Chucha Press & Bull City Press.

Check out new fiction books for the week of 8/4 from Black Rose Writing, Scribner, Graywolf Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Random House, Penguin Books, Algonquin Books, Amistad, Bellevue Literary P...

PCR is calling for submissions of original poetry and fiction from August 1 and September 15 for our Fall 2026 issue and beyond. Read this post for details!

"I probably leapt off the logic of the hairdresser being blind and therefore had to work on the head/body/mind rather than just hair as a surface issue of presentation." Read two poems by Irene Cunnin...

Check out new poetry books for the week of 7/28 from Anvil Press, Eris, Chax Press, LSU Press & Seagull Books.

Check out new fiction books for the week of 7/28 from Set Margins, HarperVia, G.P. Putnam's Sons, HarperCollins, Atria Books & Knopf.

“[Hurwitz] shares moments of angst and moments of awe. More than that, there are moments of deep recognition. She sees herself in [her sons] and, in fact, receives a later-life ADHD diagnosis of her o...

Check out new poetry books for the week of 7/21 from Westbrae Literary Press, Bloodaxe Books, Orison Books, LSU Press, Knopf, Black Lawrence Press, CLASH Books & University of Utah Press.

Check out new fiction books for the week of 7/21 from New Island Books, Arcade, WTAW Press, Ballantine Books, Catalyst Collective, New Directions, 37 Ink & Doubleday.

Managing Editor Aiden Hunt shares statistics from PCR's Spring submission period, announces a rule change, and welcomes two new members of the Philly Chapbook Review staff in this note.

Read four poems by Joely Williams, our second biweekly poet of the Summer 2026 issue, along with a few words about "Single Mother Considers the Periodic Table."

"[The poem] came out of real pressure: despair, worry, and grief I wanted to hold unflinchingly, alongside the anxiety of becoming a parent... For me the poem became a meditation on all the feeling th...

Check out new poetry books for the week of 7/14 from Broadstone Books, Nine Mile, La Barba Metafísica, Duke University Press, Penguin Books & W. W. Norton.

Check out new fiction books for the week of 7/14 from Stanchion Books, Curbstone Books 2, MCD, Tidewater Press, Bloomsbury Publishing, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Riverhead Books, HarperVia, Random Hou...

Check out our round-up of poetry chapbooks published in June 2026 by Sand and Gravel Press, IKE: A Publishing Project, YesYes Books & Bottlecap Press.