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Free/Inexpensive/Non-Amazon (Mostly Poetry) Ebooks - 12/28/2021

Free Ebooks

ZOETROPE by Kevin Latimer

Love & Solidarity by Brendan Joyce

Character Limit by Brendan Joyce

OOP Barrelhouse chapbooks

PWYC Ebooks

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (Pay If You Can)

whom by grace (ge) gilbert

Awareness & Advocacy Microchapbook Series 2021 bundled in one (the Blanket Sea Press site has descriptions & links to get them singly) (includes audiobooks!)

Inexpensive Ebooks

swallow::tale press

Bottlecap Press just added ebooks for all their books

Spells of My Name by I.S. Jones

Harp in a Fireplace by Hussain Ahmed

The Women Widowed to Themselves by Lora Mathis (& others published by Party Trick Press)

My Dead Book by Nate Lippens (& others published by Publication Studio)

preparatory school for the end of the world by nat raum

Dancing on the Tarmac by Tarik Dobbs

Lil’ Ghost Poems by Dalton Day

Writing the Camp by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh

sun of daedalus / song of anticlea by caroline grand-clement

Folktales for the Diseased Individual by Palaces

EROTECAY by Palaces

Non-Amazon/Kobo/Etc. Ebooks

Vigil (poem) by Ananda Lima (& a few others published by GetFresh Book Publishing)

We Are Owed. by Ariana Brown

The Good Arabs by Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch

Personal Attention Roleplay by Helen Chau Bradley

Vulnerability by Neha Maqsood

Experiments in Imagining Otherwise by Lola Olufemi

Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies by Heba Hayek (& others published by Hajar Press)

FuturePanic by Amish Trivedi (& others published by co•im•press)

books published by pizza pi press now available as ebooks

Non-Amazon/Kobo/Etc. Audiobooks

2021 audio series by Makina Books

Anything Not Measurable Is Not Real by Sandra Alland (free streaming)

Borrow/Read Online

11:11 Press has made some of their books available on archive.org

Matilda’s Battle Waltz by Tracie Morell

Memnoir by Joan Retallack

#lifeinpoetry books #free poetry #poetry ebooks #poetry

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Kindle Unlimited: Part 1 - Poetry & Fiction

A long list of books available on Kindle Unlimited, some with free audio via Audible.* Part 1.

Poetry

A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship by Ariel Francisco - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $6.53

The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.99

All of Us are Birds and Some of Us Have Broken Wings by Ojo Taiye - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.95

Regret or Something More Animal by Heather Bell - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99

Self-Portrait by Elisabeth Horan

Swerve: Poems on Environmentalism, Feminism, and Resistance by Ellery Akers - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.97

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition by W. B. Yeats - free with Kindle Unlimited or $16.99 

Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems by Victor Serge - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

Late in the Day: Poems 2010-2014 by Ursula K. Le Guin - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

Finding My Elegy: New and Selected Poems by Ursula K. Le Guin - free with Kindle Unlimited or $10.99 

Our Debatable Bodies by Marisa Crane - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99

Dream Work by Mary Oliver - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.64

In Case of Death by Brian McGackin - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.00 

To Feed My Woodland Bones: A Changeling's Tale by Kate Garrett - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99 

Another Black Girl Miracle by Tonya Ingram - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.00  

Soul Sister Revue: A Poetry Compilation ed. Cynthia Manick - free with Kindle Unlimited or $15.00  

She Healed: A Collection of Spoken Word Poems by Jae Nichelle - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.99 

Hotel Alexander by Rebekah Morgan - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.99

I Wore My Blackest Hair by Carlina Duan - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99

Rummage by Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99;  includes free audio via Audible

A Landscape for Loss by Erin Rodoni - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.99

Lady Parts by Jeni De La O - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Luisa in Realityland by Claribel Alegría - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

To Live Here by Soul Vang - free with Kindle Unlimited or $7.99

IRL by Tommy Pico - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99 

Why Storms are Named After People and Bullets Remain Nameless by Tanaya Winder - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

I Love My Women, Sometimes They Love Me by Cathy Arellano - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99 

Anemochore by Meredith Stricker - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

CRADLING MONSOONS by Sarah McKinstry-Brown - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.97 

We are Procession: Seismograph by Devon Balwit - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Found Them: Poems by Francisco-Luis White - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

A Scattering by Christopher Reid - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

The Wire-Headed Heathen by Inua Ellams - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

You Could Never Objectify Me More Than I've Already Objectified Myself by Alexandra Naughton - free with Kindle Unlimited or $0.99 

If I Should Say I Have Hope by Lynn Melnick - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99 

Pepper Girl by Jonterri Gadson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.99 

I Will Always Be Your Whore: Love Songs for Billy Corgan by Alexandra Naughton - free with Kindle Unlimited or $0.99 

Disappearing Address by Simone Muench &  Philip Jenks - free with Kindle Unlimited or $0.99

When I'm Not There by Yena Purmasir - free with Kindle Unlimited or $6.99 

Wingspan: Poems by Kai Coggin - free with Kindle Unlimited or $7.99

The Salt-Wind by Brandy McDougall - free with Kindle Unlimited or $7.99 

Why Dust Shall Never Settle Upon This Soul by Ryka Aoki - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.95

Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99; includes free audio via Audible

The Waste Land & Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99; includes free audio via Audible

Cane by Jean Toomer - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99; includes free audio via Audible

The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99′ includes free audio via Audible

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.49 

for the love of black girls: poems by Tatiana M.R. Johnson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

The Dogs I Have Kissed by Trista Mateer - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Small Ghost by Trista Mateer - free with Kindle Unlimited or $1.99 

Dear Sal by Jeremy Radin - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.00 

soft magic. by Upile Chisala - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.00 

Carnival by Alyesha Wise - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.00 

Cassiopeia at Midnight by N. L. Shompole - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Anatomy of Surrender: Twelve names for December, Select Poems by N. L. Shompole - free with Kindle Unlimited or $1.99

Phantoms as Euphemisms for Disaster: Spectre Specter Blue Ravine by N. L. Shompole - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99

Lace Bone Beast: Poems & Other Fairytales for Wicked Girls by N. L. Shompole - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99

Heaven Water Blood by N. L. Shompole - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99

Hi-Density Politics by Urayoán Noel - free with Kindle Unlimited or $0.99

Domestic Uncertainties by Leah Umansky - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Call the Catastrophists by Krystal Languell - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

First Baby Poems by Anne Waldman - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

[Dis]Connected: Poems & Stories of Connection and Otherwise: Volume 1 ed. Michelle Halket - free with Kindle Unlimited or $7.99

Naturalism by Wendy Xu - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.00  

Chelate by Jay Besemer - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

I Am Not Your Final Girl: Poems by Claire C. Holland - free

Salvation on Mission Street by Cathy Arellano - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Roots Grew Wild by Erica Hoffmeister - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99 

Magic with Skin On by Morgan Nikola-Wren - free

Mercurial by Allison Joseph - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

Studying Hunger Journals by Bernadette Mayer - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

Hourglass Museum by Kelli Russell Agodon - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99

Papi Doesn't Love Me No More by Anna Suarez - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.99 

The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander by Homer, tr. Caroline Alexander - free with Kindle Unlimited or $11.99

Fiction

Cenote City by Monique Quintana - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.99

Private Novelist: Fiction by Nell Zink - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.49 

The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag - free with Kindle Unlimited or $12.99

The Hole by Hye-young Pyun - free with Kindle Unlimited or $12.99 

Justine by Lawrence Durrell - free with Kindle Unlimited or $10.00

Jenalyn by Marianne Villanueva - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich - free with Kindle Unlimited or $11.99 

The Last Final Girl by Stephen Graham Jones - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.95

The Polyglot Lovers by Lina Wolff - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.89 

Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.97  

Kartography by Kamila Shamsie - free with Kindle Unlimited or $11.49

Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.50

A Fist or a Heart by Kristín Eiríksdóttir - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99; includes free audio via Audible

Chelsea Girls by Eileen Myles - free with Kindle Unlimited or $11.49

The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara - free with Kindle Unlimited or $10.99

Nowhere to Be Found by Bae Suah - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.99

One Two by Eliane Brum - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.99; includes free audio via Audible

Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko - free with Kindle Unlimited or $1.99; includes free audio via Audible

Death in Venice by Thomas Mann - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.49

The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin - free with Kindle Unlimited or $7.99    

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99; includes free audio via Audible

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien - free with Kindle Unlimited or $10.20

Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls by Lucy Corin - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.69

Ghost Dance by Carole Maso - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones - free with Kindle Unlimited or $11.99

The Blind Earthworm in the Labyrinth by Veeraporn Nitiprapha - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.29 

Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury - free with Kindle Unlimited or $12.49

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $10.49

Tampa by Alissa Nutting - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.49 (tw: csa)

That Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam - free with Kindle Unlimited or $10.99  

The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $10.99

 We Were Witches by Ariel Gore - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

The Museum of Abandoned Secrets by Oksana Zabuzhko - free with Kindle Unlimited or $1.49; includes free audio via Audible

Halsey Street by Naima Coster - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99; includes free audio via Audible

They Could Have Named Her Anything by Stephanie Jimenez - free with Kindle Unlimited or $4.99; includes free audio via Audible

I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur by Mathias Svalina - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

A Safe Girl To Love by Casey Plett - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

Nevada by Imogen Binnie - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.95

Soft Split by Szilvia Molnar - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.00

Wish You Were Me by Myriam Gurba - free with Kindle Unlimited or $3.00

The Sarah Book by Scott McClanahan - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

I Don't Think of You (Until I Do) by Tatiana Ryckman - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99 

Preparation For The Next Life by Atticus Lish - free with Kindle Unlimited or $6.99 

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera - free with Kindle Unlimited or $6.99 

Quinn's Passage by Kazim Ali - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99 

Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

1984 by George Orwell - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99; includes free audio via Audible

The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

Life of Pi by Yann Martel - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.64 

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99; free audio via Audible

The Waves by Virginia Woolf - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99

Hexis by Charlene Elsby - free with Kindle Unlimited or $0.99

YA

American Street by Ibi Zoboi - free with Kindle Unlimited or $10.99 

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth - free with Kindle Unlimited or $8.99 

Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.59

Wanted! by Caroline B. Cooney - free with Kindle Unlimited or $7.99

Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99

Pony Castle by Sofia Banzhaf  - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $5.99

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry - free with Kindle Unlimited or $6.99

Literary Collections

The Science of Herself by Karen Joy Fowler - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.99 

Report from Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson - free with Kindle Unlimited or $9.49

throughsmoke by Jehanne Dubrow - free with Kindle Unlimited or $6.99 

 "Verbs that Move Mountains": Essays and Interviews on Spoken Word Cultures Around the World ed. Claire Trevien - free with Kindle Unlimited or $2.99 

Sucker's Portfolio: A Collection of Previously Unpublished Writing by Kurt Vonnegut - free with Kindle Unlimited or $0.99; includes free audio via Audible

* The prices are kind of inaccurate since they were from back in March but I’ve checked all the links within the past hour

#lifeinpoetry books #kindle unlimited #poetry #poetry on kindle unlimited

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Free & Inexpensive Reads - May 16

Ahn Hak-sŏp #4 by Don Mee Choi - free PDF

Not Meant as Poems by Fiona Sze-Lorrain - free PDF

The Green Violin - free PDFs

Ghost City Press 2020 Summer Series - free microchap PDFs sent directly to your inbox

Vintage Sadness by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib - free PDF

Radical Trans Poetry Vol. 2 - free PDF

I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On by Khadijah Queen - $5 PDF

Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund - people who donate $10+ get free PDFs of A HISTORY OF FLAMBOYANCE by Justin Phillip Reed and DREAM WITH A GLASS CHAMBER by Aricka Foreman

Moonchaps - chapbooks - both online & free PDFs

Influx Press - £1.99 ebooks sale

#lifeinpoetry books #free poetry #free ebooks #free chapbooks

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Free and Inexpensive Reads & Some Ebook News - May 5

Seagull Books - 28 free PDFs (all from the past four weeks of free downloads) made available for download this week

Feminist Press - all their 2019 ebooks on sale for $2.99

Shadow Black by Naima Tokunow - free pdf - winner of the Frontier Digital Chapbook Contest, chosen by Jericho Brown

Ghost City Press - sale on their books & chapbooks, chapbooks are as low as $4 and books as low as $6

Verso Books - 80% off all their ebooks and 50% off their print books until May 24th

Laura Theobald - three of her chapbooks now available as PWYC PDFs

Bull City Press - Sale of up to 50% off on their fiction chapbooks

Melville House - week 7′s selection of $1.99 ebooks

My main source of figuring out what’s been made available in ebook format on platforms other than Amazon has quietly disappeared so here’s some ebook news because I’m feeling motivated!

Four Way Books has made a number of their newest releases (& re-releases) available on Kindle & Kobo (they’re cheaper on Kobo, btw). Basically the latest by John Murillo, Tommye Blount, and Cynthia Cruz.

Invasive species by Marwa Helal is now available on Kobo but not on Kindle. 

Faylita Hicks’ HoodWitch now available on Kobo & on Kindle (cheaper on Kobo, btw). A lot of other Acre Books were also made available on Kobo & Kindle.

Sarabande Books finally released the ebooks they’ve been holding onto for the past couple years on Kindle, Kobo, Scribd, and, to a lesser extent, Hoopla (if your library has that).

Third Man Books has some new ebooks on Kobo & Kindle.

& the Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia anthology is available on Google Play.

#lifeinpoetry books #free ebooks

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Free and Inexpensive Reads During Quarantine - April 24, 2020

My state isn’t reopening for a while but other states have or are planning to so not too many links this time.

Third Man Books - PDFs of their OOP chapbooks for $5

Seagull Books - this week’s new selection of free PDFs of their books

Scrambler Digital - Editorial Negra, If a Leaf Falls Press, and Scrambler Books have made their books PWYC

Project Muse - some publishers have made digital versions of their books free to read for everyone (I’d honestly thought it was just for university students), most of them until June 30th. University of Arizona Press, University of Nebraska Press, and University of Georgia Press, Wayne State University Press, and Princeton University Press are standouts. & The Ohio State University Press has a poetry collection that’s been on my TBR for ages. 

#lifeinpoetry books

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Free and Inexpensive Reads During Quarantine - April 16, 2020

Free

The Living Poets Digital Library - free

Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail - free ebook of the week with code AZCROSS20

Reality Beach - offering free PDFs of many of their sold out chapbooks

A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium by Chris Harman - free ebook until April 20 (Monday)

Lasagne by Wayne Holloway-Smith - free PDF with other formats to follow

Sinister Wisdom: “Two things about COVID-19 and reading. First, if you want more to read at this moment, we are happy to send out any back issues (published before Sinister Wisdom 100) for the cost of postage only. Just email me with what issues you'd like to have, and I'll invoice you for the $3.20 to mail the issues (a bit more if you want more than three issues). You can also send any of the back issues still in stock to friends, family, and others looking for a good read. Pop me an email and I'll get things all set up for you.”

New England Review 39.2 - Free ebook of sold out edition

Sales

Canarium Books - 3 for $20 and 1 for $10 and if you’re out of work DM your address and one of their books you’d like for a free book

The Fire Eater: Poems by Jose Hernandez Diaz - $5.99 (was $16.10) - Kobo ($4.85 if you’re a Kobo VIP) / Google Play

Born-Again Anything: Poems by Kara Krewer - $5.99 (was $16.10) - Kobo ($4.85 if you’re a Kobo VIP) / Google Play

Fabulous Beast: Poems by Sarah Kain Gutowski - $5.99 (was $16.10) - Kobo ($4.85 if you’re a Kobo VIP) / Google Play

Tilted Axis Press is having a 40% off print sale (w/ free UK shipping) & Translating Feminisms is now a four chapbook digital bundle

University of Nebraska Press - 50% off ebooks through July 30 with code 6EB20

Perugia Press - $10 book sale

Platypus Press has extended it’s $1+ PWYC sale until April 19 (Sunday)

Reading the City series (Comma Press) - all  £2.49 on Kindle today (4/16)

Bone & Ink Press - 15% off poetry titles for National Poetry Month (e.g. $3.40 for Marion Deal’s digital chapbook)

#lifeinpoetry books

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Free and Inexpensive Reads During Quarantine - April 9, 2020

Dzanc Books - access to their entire ebook catalogue is now $10/mo or $100 for lifetime access

Hall of Waters by Berry Grass - free PDF of their essay collection & lists their venmo in the second tweet if you can afford to donate

Shay Alexi - $2+ PWYC zine

PM Press - free ebook from a selection of their catalogue

Influx Press - £1.99 short story collections sale until Sunday (April 12)

Bull City Press - sale on their poetry titles

Black Lawrence Press - 50% off their poetry titles with code NatPoMo50

#lifeinpoetry books #free ebooks

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Free and Inexpensive Ebooks (on Sale) - April 8, 2020

Poetry

Girl with Death Mask by Jennifer Givhan - $1.99

Be With by Forrest Gander - $1.99

Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful: Poems by Alice Walker - $1.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Fiction

Valencia by Michelle Tea - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Delicious Foods by James Hannaham - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Comics & Graphic Novels

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg - $2.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Essays

Long Life: Essays and Other Writings by Mary Oliver - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays by June Jordan - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Nonfiction

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education by Mychal Denzel Smith - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - $3.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

#lifeinpoetry books #kindle books on sale #ebooks on sale #long post

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Free and Inexpensive Reads During Quarantine - April 8, 2020

Dark Pool Party by Hannah Black - free PDF of her OOP collection of essays, personal texts, and video/performance scripts with an “extremely optional” request for donations 

Leaving Tulsa by Jennifer Elise Foerster - University of Arizona Press’ free ebook of the week with code AZTULSA

Gray Topic by Fernando Sdrigotti & Martin Dean - free online PDF

Seagull Books - Offering one free ebook a day

Platypus Press - All their books are $1+ PWYC this week at their Payhip store

#lifeinpoetry books #free ebooks

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Free and Inexpensive Ebooks List - April 6, 2020

Fiction

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Paint It Black by Janet Fitch - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

The Last Wolf & Herman by László Krasznahorkai - $1.99

Short Stories

Days of Awe: Stories by A. M. Homes - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Nonfiction

Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything by Barbara Ehrenreich - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Memoir

Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni - $4.99 - Also on Kobo / Google Play

#lifeinpoetry books #kindle books on sale #ebooks on sale

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Free and Inexpensive Reads During Quarantine - April 5, 2020

The original post (Free and Inexpensive Reads During Quarantine) & its spate of updates.

Free Ebooks

Voyager, Too by Anthony Michael Morena - free outtakes PDF chapbook of his Rose Metal Press book The Voyager Record: A Transmission

Bettering American Poetry - offers a free PDF of one of their books to people who are sick, social distancing or in quarantine

Delirium / Leering / Liquid Morphine / Artwork by Shane Jesse Christmass - free PDF

The Whole World at Once: Stories by Erin Pringle - free PDF

Current Sales 

Repeater Books - currently 50% off ebooks

Button Poetry - 40% off ebooks & audiobooks for all of April

WVU Press - currently 50% off ebooks with code EBOOK50

Melville House - Week 3 of $1.99 ebooks with all new selections

#lifeinpoetry books #free ebooks #free poetry

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Some mid-afternoon poetry additions:

A Sand Book by Ariana Reines - $2.99

Late in the Day: Poems 2010–2014 by Ursula K. Le Guin - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Aphrodite Made Me Do It by Trista Mateer - $1.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Free and Inexpensive Ebooks List - April 5, 2020

Fiction

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl - $1.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Dear Martin by Nic Stone - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl - $1.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Plays

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson - $1.99

Essays

The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Nonfiction

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell - $4.99 - Or on Kobo

Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadya Tolokonnikova - $1.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Memoir

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

#lifeinpoetry books #long post

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Free and Inexpensive Ebooks List - April 5, 2020

Fiction

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl - $1.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Dear Martin by Nic Stone - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl - $1.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern - $4.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Plays

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy by Anne Carson - $1.99

Essays

The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Nonfiction

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell - $4.99 - Or on Kobo

Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism by Nadya Tolokonnikova - $1.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

No One Cares About Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America by Ron Powers - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann - $2.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

Memoir

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong - $3.99 - Or on Kobo / Google Play

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Free and Inexpensive Kindle Books List - April 4, 2020

I will (hopefully) start doing these at night to post in the morning to catch the price changes that only last the morning/early afternoon and get more time to look up other shops.

Poetry

Lifting Belly: An Erotic Poem by Gertrude Stein - $3.03

Fiction

The Incendiaries by R. O. Kwon - $1.99

I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young-ha Kim

Nonfiction

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan - $3.99

The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg - $3.99

H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald - $4.96

#lifeinpoetry books #kindle books on sale #i had like a half dozen more last night that went up again

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A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris Hill Bloomsbury Publishing — Kindle ($1.99) / Audible ($4.57) / Print ($16) Poetry

“DaMaris B. Hill writes the poetry of the bound black woman across the ages in this haunting, powerful collection. What you will read here is not just poetry, though. This book offers an education. This book bears witness. This book is a reckoning.” ―Roxane Gay

#poetry #DaMaris Hill #A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing #lifeinpoetry books #lifeinpoetry read #Bloomsbury Publishing #Ebook: $0.01 to $2.00 #Print: $15.01 to $20.00 #Audio: $04.01 to $6.00 #Kindle eBook #Audible #poets of color

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Poetry, Etc. Digital & Audiobook Finds (Some Free)

Poetry collections, etc. in digital and audio formats that may be of interest (or not). Some that are not on Amazon and most other popular retailers in that format or at all. Oh, and apparently Pizarnik‘s book is out-of-print so now available in PDF for free download.

Ebooks

The Most Foreign Country by Alejandra Pizarnik, tr. Yvette Siegert (Free) (PDF) (Ugly Duckling Presse)

First published in 1955 and now translated for the first time into English, The Most Foreign Country is Alejandra Pizarnik’s debut collection. Here, the nineteen-year-old poet begins to explore the themes that will shape and define her vision: the solitude of the poetic self, the longing for artistic depth, and the tenuous nearness of death. By turns probing and playful, bold and difficult, Pizarnik’s earliest poems teem with an exuberant desire “to grab hold of everything”  and to create a language that tests the limits of origin, paradox, and death.

My Woman Card is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths by Xemiyulu Manibusan Tapepechul ($10) (PDF) (Self-Published)

2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Bisexual Poetry

My Woman Card is anti-Native & Other Two-Spirit Truths is a book of free verse poems, haikus and sonnets inspired by a conversation with the Legendary Venus Selenite, by the author’s love for classical theatre, by her connection to her community, and by her experiences navigating eurocentrism in medicine & social life. Originally published on CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (November 20, 2018)

No Archive Will Restore You by Julietta Singh ($5+) (Pay-What-You-Can) (PDF) (Punctum Books / 3Ecologies Books Imprint)

2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Bisexual Nonfiction

At once memoir, theory, poetic prose, and fragment, No Archive Will Restore You is a feverish meditation on the body. Departing from Antonio Gramsci’s summons to compile an inventory of the historical traces left in each of us, Singh engages with both the impossibility and urgent necessity of crafting an archive of the body. Through reveries on the enduring legacies of pain, desire, sexuality, race, and identity, she asks us to sense and feel what we have been trained to disavow, to re-member the body as more than itself.

We Take Me Apart by Molly Gaudry ($3.99) (PDF) (Ampersand Books)

2nd finalist for the 2011 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry Shortlisted for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry Nominated for the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize

There is no more perfect place to be than in Molly Gaudry s tender, dirt-floored novella, We Take Me Apart. Oh cabbage leaves, oh roses, oh orange-slice childhood grins: this book broke my heart. Its sad memory-tropes come from fairy tales & childhood books. With language, Gaudry is as loving & careful as one is with a matchbook … when wishing to set the whole word on fire. (Kate Bernheimer)

Hemming the Water by Yona Harvey ($5.99) (PDF) (Four Way Books)

…There is no rest in this extraordinary debut book by Yona Harvey. It is a book in which the devastation is still very much alive. It is not a personal story. As in any great disaster, the privilege of uniqueness is taken away. We are taken to dizzying uncertainties, a place between what’s real and what isn’t, what’s intimate and what’s strange, between evil and good. How to make a form when there is no form? Nothing you can count on? Hers is not an easy art—nor is it harmless. She sets out to accomplish an impossible task, Hemming the Water. Music is the only thing she can turn to, and poetry is the exquisite stitch that turns the forces against us to our advantage. Read this book again (there is not one predictable line!) to appreciate even more its fierce elegance, and the joy of its triumph. (Toi Derricotte)

Lavando La Dirty Laundry by Natalia Treviño ($5.99) (PDF) (Mongrel Empire Press)

This writer warns us she is a woman like a “Mexican electric fence.” And yet between the sheets or between the murmur of the rolling pin, we are trusted to overhear confidences between intimates. It is on the white sheets of this book that a woman’s most private confessions are transformed from dirty laundry to poetry luminescent as linen on the line. I truly feel gratitude for being allowed to read such private dialogues. It is a book that is a remove from other Texas writers in its capacity to encompass the globe, as Chicana poetry should in the new millennium. I feel very privileged to be allowed to give this book its blessing. (Sandra Cisneros)

Sublime: Lost Words by Juliane Okot Bitek (Free) (PDF) (The Elephants)

Juliane Okot Bitek has never stopped exploring the power of narrative, focusing her essays, poetry and nonfiction work on political and social issues. She is a Liu Scholar at the University of British Columbia’s Liu Institute. Her first collection, 100 Days, was published last year by the University of Alberta Press and nominated for several awards.

How Narrow My Escapes by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram ($5) (PDF) (New Michigan Press)

Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is the author of the forthcoming book Travesty Generator (Noemi Press), and previous books Personal Science (Tupelo Press, 2017), a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press, 2016), and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press, 2012)

Removing Skin by Trevino L. Brings Plenty (Free) (ePub/mobi) (Self-published)

Embracing an identity of twenty-first century west coast urban squalor, Trevino Brings Plenty creates a madly cruising momentum barreling down the page instantly akin to narrowing proximities within a panorama of cityscapes, apartments and dives. The resulting irresistible fervor brings a flavor of first to a long-awaited banter. Hold on; this one is fully loose. (Allison Adelle Hedge Coke) 

The Bodies of Birds by Melanie Rae Thon ($5) (PDF) (New Michigan Press)

Resurrected and restored through the bodies of multitudes, a young woman who becomes an organ donor after a car accident radiates unmitigated love as she comes to know the recipients of her heart and kidneys—lungs, bowel, vertebrae, corneas … Twenty-seven years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, black storks glide over the Zone of Alienation. Apple trees bloom; lilacs flower—radioactive wolves thrive; bees make glowing honey …  A prisoner in California, a man who killed a woman a hundred times, who stabbed face and throat, heart and belly, now washes another man in the shower, shaves his face, changes his diapers, protects and serves a murderer like himself, riddled by dementia …

Prayers, love songs, laments, confessions—these three provocative immersions through and beyond the body explore the revelatory expansiveness of consciousness and compassion; the persistence of love; the trauma of intimate violence and environmental devastation; unexpected grace; and the remarkable resilience of the marvelously diverse more-than-human world.

Night Vision by Claire Wahmanholm ($5) (PDF) (New Michigan Press)

In Claire Wahmanholm’s Night Vision, we are made to witness narrative’s inevitable unravelling. By placing hybrid prose in conversation with skillful erasures, Wahmanholm creates a subtle and striking commentary on the nature of language and story. She reminds us of the infinite ways that voice resists containment by history, convention, and our expectations as readers. In each lyric fragment, each fracturing of the source text, we are shown all that has been buried in the trappings of prose. This is a gorgeously subversive chapbook, a work that reflects powerfully on the circumstances of its own making. (Kristina Marie Darling)

Top Surgery by Oliver Baez Bendorf ($5) (PDF) (Self-published)

A PDF for a full-color art book / illustrated zine that Oliver Baez Bendorf made in the two months following top surgery (a double mastectomy with chest reconstruction) as part of his gender transition. His girlfriend says, “It’s an art object, a guide and a poetry comic all in one. Each page is brilliant a standalone art piece, an experience. It’s luscious fragments and saturated color.” She might be biased but he think you will like it. The book touches on herbal remedies, being “sure enough,” pre- and post-surgery feels, caring for your caregivers, ways to support someone having top surgery, candied ginger, and more, through collage, watercolor, and writing.

On Hell by Johanna Hedva ($5+) (PDF) (Sator Press)

On Hell transcribes a body broken by American empire, that of ex-con Rafael Luis Estrada Requena, hacking itself away from contemporary society. Johanna Hedva, author of Sick Woman Theory, takes the ferocious compulsion to escape (from capitalism, from the limits of the body-machine, from Earth) and channels it into an evisceration of oppression and authority. Equal parts tender and brutal, romantic and furious, On Hell is a novel about myths that trick and resist totalitarianism.

Stag: A Poem by Emily O’Neill ($7) (PDF) (Ladybox Books)

Originally only available as part of a limited chapbook subscription box curated by Ladybox Books, Stag is a chapbook-length poem about poker, porn, manipulation, addiction, & escaping abuse.

NOBODY DIES FROM BEING WRONG by Emily O’Neill ($2.50) (PDF) (Self-published)

This chapbook has been out of print since 2015. Poems include several pop album remixes, as well as early versions of poems that would later appear in Celeris & Make a Fist & Tongue the Knuckles.

Print

The Internet of Wanting ($5) (Print) (Wretch Press)

Chapbook of poems, memes and thoughts on the internet of wanting. It’s about human and cyborg desire, trolls, and the fuckery of companies like Amazon and Alphabet.

Audiobook

LET US BE ENOUGH by Ariana Brown ($10+) (Bandcamp)

​Ariana Brown is a Black Mexican American poet from San Antonio, Texas, with a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies and Mexican American Studies from UT Austin. She is the recipient of two Academy of American Poets Prizes and a 2014 collegiate national poetry slam champion. An alum of Brave New Voices, Ariana’s work has been featured in PBS, Huffington Post, Blavity, For Harriet, and Remezcla.

Phrasis by Wendy Xu ($0+) (Bandcamp)

Wendy Xu is the author of Phrasis (Fence Books Ottoline Prize, 2017), named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by The New York Times, and one of the 13 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by BuzzFeed. Her debut collection You Are Not Dead, (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013), was named by Poets & Writers Magazine as one of the year’s Top 10 debuts. Xu was awarded the Patricia Goedicke Prize in Poetry in 2011, a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation in 2014, and her poetry has appeared (or will appear) in The Best American Poetry, Boston Review, Poetry, Tin House, A Public Space, Narrative Magazine, Guernica, and widely elsewhere. Fiction and essays have appeared in BOMB, BuzzFeed, and elsewhere.

Night Redacted by Chelsea Hodson ($0+) (Bandcamp)

Chelsea Hodson is the author of the book of essays Tonight I’m Someone Else and the chapbook Pity the Animal. She is a graduate of the MFA program at Bennington College and has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell Colony and PEN Center USA Emerging Voices. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Frieze Magazine, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at Catapult in New York and at Mors Tua Vita Mea in Sezze Romano, Italy.  

Words Like Love by Tanaya Winder ($12+) (Bandcamp)

This album features ten of Tanaya’s favorite poems from her debut collection, poet Tanaya Winder sings the joys, glories, and laments of love. Love is defined by familial, cultural, platonic, and romantic bonds in these emotional and thoughtfully rendered poems. Her voice traverses the darkness in a quest to learn more about the most complex of subjects.

For Women and Girls on Fire by Tanaya Winder ($10+) (Bandcamp)

Tanaya Winder is a performance poet, writer, motivational speaker and educator. With fellow indigenous writer Casandra Lopez, she founded As/Us, an online literary magazine to “showcase the creative literary expressions and scholarly work of both emerging and established women writers from around the world.”

Worth is the Wrong Word by Lisa Ciccarello ($0+) (Bandcamp)

Lisa Ciccarello is the author of At Night (Black Ocean) as well as several chapbooks, including “Chief!” (InkPress), Worth is the Wrong Word (Black Cake Records), & the forthcoming I only thought of the farm (DoubleCross Press). Her poems have appeared in Tin House, Denver Quarterly, PEN Poetry Series, Handsome, Big Lucks, Corduroy Mtn. & The Volta, among others. She edits poetry at draft: The Journal of Process.

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50% off print books today.

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