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Indie press showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. asterismbooks.com/publisher/pizama-… | Editor: neonpajamas.bsky.social

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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
four quotes from Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, in his new interview in Touch the Donkey ( @robmclennan.bsky.social ) touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2026/09/ttd-...
The poems I’ve been writing lately are so oddly populated with creatures. Donkeys and witches and moths and dogsharks and ghoul-headed lambs. I’m not really sure what is happening here. Also a lot of speakers getting lost in a fog or a trance or some foggy woods...I tend to compose a line to be short. They’re sometimes a sort of impulsive declaration. Like a rock coming down hard and fast against a piece of high-carbon steel. Something like a song lyric. Will this shoot sparks or not? One line is trying to hold the heat and light of the previous line, so it’s often using some of the same kindling. Maybe it’s the repetition of a sound. Maybe it’s a slant rhyme. I am trying to get back to the joy I had when I was fifteen and playing in a garage band. Hearing what my distorted guitar sounded like striking against / dissolving into another distorted guitar. There is a little of the same impulse there, thinking, what will I sound like today? What if I turn this up really loud?I feel a new freedom to let myself leap in and out of the surreal. One moment the vision will seem concrete and tight to me, and then it’s a leap into rabid dog flesh and a head of ash. I’m not sure what this is. As I get older, my old memories feel fuzzier, more dreamlike to me.
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lesle Lewis at Unnameable Books in Brooklyn!
Unnameable Books (615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY), Oct. 16th at 7pm -- Lesle Lewis, Corbett Bresner, Adam Tobin
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Touch the Donkey supplement #308 : seven questions for Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi / @pizamapress.bsky.social ; touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2026/09/ttd-...
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TtD supplement #308 : seven questions for Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi is the author of DISINTEGRATION MADE PLAIN AND EASY (Piżama Press) and THE BOOK OF KANE AND MARGARET (FC2 / UAP) His...
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We’ve been fans of @tinyghosthands.bsky.social for nearly a decade, first falling in love with Spooky Action at a Distance, then grabbing everything we could, including 2 books of plays, a collection of poems, & a batch of chapbooks (some of which we gifted to friends). We recommend you do the same.
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
TONIGHT! in two hours
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Nate of the Living Dead @airbudhockey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
psst…there might be guest spots from myself and Danika Stegeman(!)
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Virtual reading tomorrow! Two of our favorite poets Lesle Lewis & Dara Barrois/Dixon Scan the QR code to register, or DM me for a link
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The wonderful @eveninghouse.bsky.social recently had a store break-in & could use your help! Consider grabbing a book, Piżama or otherwise eveninghousebooks.com
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
hosting this rapid-fire marathon reading in Chicago this Friday
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Prior to John’s Table, Lesle Lewis hadn’t released a book since 2019 & we’re so happy she has TWO books out this year. Survival of the Fittest Pronoun drops in 2 weeks via Quale Press. The first 10 people to DM us an order confirmation we'll mail you a FREE copy of John’s Table.
a picture of Lesle Lewis' two prose poetry collections released this year
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Thanks, again and again, to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for including Piżama Press on his wonderful literary podcast Between the Covers, a favorite of ours. You can find this shout-out from the archival episode with Zadie Smith, where they discuss her story collection Grand Union 📚 ❤️
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
getting way too ahead, but just plotted out all of our books until 2030 😨
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Three months of minimal traction, rabbit holes, and kind rejections, yet the STRIDES that have been taken in the last seven days are absolutely unreal works in translation via Piżama Press are very much underway
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
JOHN'S TABLE spotted!! Lovely write-up
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
accurate 😂
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Réka Nyitrai for #weirdpoemwednesday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Who Am I?
[Sleep Talk]

My name is Doll. // One hundred years ago I was birthed by a tree. // I live secluded in a cottage in the forest. // I’m the lover of the moon and the mistress of the sky. // When I’m hungry I eat moss. When I’m thirsty I drink nectar. // Once a witch swallowed me but then spat me out. // I’m aching. I’m restless. // I can’t sleep. // I’m afraid, one day, the person sleeping next to me will vanish into the lake.
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Just had contracts signed for a strange/surreal work in translation! Something that's never been in English before. Can't wait to explain more
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"So many powder willow moons!" a poem by Lesle Lewis from her new collection, John’s Table, out now. This recording originally appeared on the radio show Poet Talk on WMUA 91.9FM 📚
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We took inspiration from the release strategy of @dorothyproject.bsky.social. A publisher of slim novels & experimental fictions, they’re known for only releasing two books a year on the same day. We use this same formula for Piżama: to remain highly curated & to avoid burnout. Thanks, Dorothy.
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Took a personal day from my day job in order to focus on Piżama Press. Sending love to all those who run indie presses with full-time gigs. It really is a labor of love.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
some of my favorite books, ever
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We took inspiration from the release strategy of @dorothyproject.bsky.social. A publisher of slim novels & experimental fictions, they’re known for only releasing two books a year on the same day. We use this same formula for Piżama: to remain highly curated & to avoid burnout. Thanks, Dorothy.
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our very own Lesle Lewis was recently on the radio show Poet Talk on WMUA 91.1FM 📚❤️ here she is reading (while I read along) the title poem of her latest collection John’s Table (out now!)
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our very own Lesle Lewis was recently on the radio show Poet Talk on WMUA 91.1FM 📚❤️ here she is reading (while I read along) the title poem of her latest collection John’s Table (out now!)
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
🚨 two new Kiik poems 🚨 🚨 two new Kiik poems 🚨 dodoeraser.org/2026/08/04/t...
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Two Poems by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
i am going to kiss you I do not like people who say o I am eating  An onion o I am eating vinegar things Now nobody will kiss me  I say shut up your stupid face Maria Or stop talking the …
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Sealey Challenge is upon us! 31 poetry collections for 31 days of August. What are you reading this month?
31 books by: Bob Heman, Johannes Göransson, Elizabeth Robinson, John Maradik, Jon Woodward, Jordan Stempleman, Lesle Lewis, Réka Nyitrai, Matt McBride, Eric Bause, Ranjit Hoskote, Daniel Brenner, Bianca Casady, Christine Shan Shan Hou, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Carrie Olivia Adams, Henry Goldkamp, Whitney Koo, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, BJ Soloy, Rennie Ament, Tomaž Šalamun, Metka Krašovec, Bob Sykora, P. Scott Cunningham, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Chrissy Martin, Sophie Klahr, Sawako Nakayasu, Andrea Rexilius, Sasha Steensen, Dolores Dorantes
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Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Chicago!!! Sept 2 reading with these brilliant authors, thanks @neonpajamas.bsky.social who also runs @pizamapress.bsky.social putting out the best of the best strange writers/ books!!! Please come and bring friends!!!
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The Sealey Challenge is upon us! 31 poetry collections for 31 days of August. What are you reading this month?
31 books by: Bob Heman, Johannes Göransson, Elizabeth Robinson, John Maradik, Jon Woodward, Jordan Stempleman, Lesle Lewis, Réka Nyitrai, Matt McBride, Eric Bause, Ranjit Hoskote, Daniel Brenner, Bianca Casady, Christine Shan Shan Hou, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Carrie Olivia Adams, Henry Goldkamp, Whitney Koo, Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, BJ Soloy, Rennie Ament, Tomaž Šalamun, Metka Krašovec, Bob Sykora, P. Scott Cunningham, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Chrissy Martin, Sophie Klahr, Sawako Nakayasu, Andrea Rexilius, Sasha Steensen, Dolores Dorantes
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Aggressively editing a prose poetry / microfiction collection for 2027 release and loving the tedious process. What would Gordon Lish do?
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
we saw a spike in sales of Réka's book after posting these poems to Instagram (21k+ views, 700+ likes, 50 new followers)
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
we saw a spike in sales of Réka's book after posting these poems to Instagram (21k+ views, 700+ likes, 50 new followers)
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
getting ahead of ourselves, but woke up to some exciting developments & feeling very giddy for the future of Piżama
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I wish I could tell you what we're working on for 2029 until then, grabbing one (or all) of our three available books will help keep this ambitious indie press running ❤️ asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
we ultimately want our books to feel like Roy Andersson films
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
four weird poems by Réka Nyitrai for #weirdpoemwednesday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
French theory

I watch ants carry rain from one city to another.
I take an example.
I put a cloud in a tote bag.
I notice how the north wind descends from a black limousine.
It takes my hat
and throws it into the past.Details 

Earth and laughter.
These are what dolls are made of.
Nothing like rice pudding
or sleep.
Just emotions;
perfectly flawed. Sunny.
Like that girl holding a kitten.
Or the thief who broke into your flower
shop
last weekend.Too late

After the tempest, they delay the trains.
I look for you everywhere in the Gare du Nord
but you aren't on the beautiful vampire list.
Still, I have not stopped raining,
so I write your name on seven napkins
to be left in seven cafes.
But you sleep far away
in a cornfield of poppies—
little ladybug, dreaming,
dreaming. Comma 

I take the daffodils
and give them mouth-to-mouth.
The radio cuts to a music station.
The rain stops.
If I had to choose a new star, it would be Betelgeuse.
If you proposed to me, I would refuse.
I know (,) that July is the right month for dancing,
so I give up everything
and jump off the knife's edge.
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Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
this little poem after Réka Nyitrai ants carry big rain from city to city tiny eyes tiny eyes rain never never
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
four weird poems by Réka Nyitrai for #weirdpoemwednesday cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
French theory

I watch ants carry rain from one city to another.
I take an example.
I put a cloud in a tote bag.
I notice how the north wind descends from a black limousine.
It takes my hat
and throws it into the past.Details 

Earth and laughter.
These are what dolls are made of.
Nothing like rice pudding
or sleep.
Just emotions;
perfectly flawed. Sunny.
Like that girl holding a kitten.
Or the thief who broke into your flower
shop
last weekend.Too late

After the tempest, they delay the trains.
I look for you everywhere in the Gare du Nord
but you aren't on the beautiful vampire list.
Still, I have not stopped raining,
so I write your name on seven napkins
to be left in seven cafes.
But you sleep far away
in a cornfield of poppies—
little ladybug, dreaming,
dreaming. Comma 

I take the daffodils
and give them mouth-to-mouth.
The radio cuts to a music station.
The rain stops.
If I had to choose a new star, it would be Betelgeuse.
If you proposed to me, I would refuse.
I know (,) that July is the right month for dancing,
so I give up everything
and jump off the knife's edge.
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
These books have been out for two months. Have you checked them out yet? Let us know! (and also let us know if you'd like a review copy) asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...
a picture of both 2026 Piżama titles
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ten experimental books (novels, short stories, tiny fictions) from one of our favorite presses @fictioncollective2.bsky.social
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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Thank you @pizamapress.bsky.social ! We love you too!
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
ten experimental books (novels, short stories, tiny fictions) from one of our favorite presses @fictioncollective2.bsky.social
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
These books have been out for two months. Have you checked them out yet? Let us know! (and also let us know if you'd like a review copy) asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...
a picture of both 2026 Piżama titles
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
👀👀
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
we're releasing two debut collections next year one is a book of prose poems editing the collection right now and 🤯🔥🌀🔮🫧🤐
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
For $5-$15 you can have 28 writing prompts mailed directly to your house. Highly recommended! Especially since @pizamapress.bsky.social is featured Just reach out to @stonespiral.bsky.social
a stack of beautiful art (book, coffee, postcards, playing cards, writing prompts, pins)
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mk? @stonespiral.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
sharing some excellent poetry in this one: Melissa Stein francine j harris Lesle Lewis ( @pizamapress.bsky.social !!) Robert Wrigley Cole Swensen
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mk? @stonespiral.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
'to light a candle' is a poetry workshop by mail 💌 the ELEVENTH session is open now! registration closes 8/2. suggested donation $5-15 🕯️
flatlay: stack of papers with "to Light a candle" typed on it, one book, a coffee cup with latte art of a bear, colorful bookmark, playing card with a still from Castle in the Sky. Also an envelope with a candle on it, with a sheaf of paper poking out of the envelope, and a small button that says "I <3 Poetry" digital collage. text reads "PREVIEW", and includes snippets of the To light a candle workshop's interior via screenshot. the word OWL is visible, and an author photo of Cole Swensonstack of books - John's Table by Lesle Lewis, Veer by Cole Swenson, Box by Robert Wrigley, Here is the Sweet Hand by francine j harris, and rough honey by melissa stein. on top of the book stack is a small stuffed moose doll, a pen, and a carved wooden peg doll from Japan.
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Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
book covers are cool, but so are the title pages asterismbooks.com/publisher/pi...
Game of Little Deaths by Réka NyitraiJohn's Table by Lesle LewisDisintegration Made Plain and Easy by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
LOVED talking to @ljabouttown.bsky.social about @pizamapress.bsky.social & the literary world at large. Thanks @malarkeybooks.bsky.social for the platform!
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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Book mail from the fab Pizama Press!! @pizamapress.bsky.social
photo of 2 books. One has the title "Split Split Poems" and the author's name "Reka Nyitrai". The illustration is a sideways biew of a person with dark hair arching upward and flowers around their head. Next to that book is another book with the title "John's Table Poems" and the author's name "Lesle Lewis. The illustration is a modular block table with 3 geometric shapes on top.
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