JackLeg Press

The Migraine Diaries is here! Congratulations to @zachpowersauthor for his incredible work! What’s being said… This is a charming, quirky narrative revolving around the recurrence and documentation of disorienting migraines. The eccentric protagonist (and their friends) and the overall irreverent aesthetic or anti-aesthetic of the narrative has a flawless, deadpan style, with dark humor and a skill for intriguing detail. This is an addictive, fascinating read. I highly recommend it! —Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American “A prismatic chronicle of mind, memory and loss.” —Patricia Lockwood, Booker Prize finalist, author of No One Is Talking About This

Live! Pre-Sale! New from Summer J. Hart, WHAT CAME DOWN IN THE SMOKE. Suffused with the horror, humor, and magic of Wabanaki storytelling, What Came Down in the Smoke is, like a child left for dead in the snow who comes home with a beaver’s tail, a book about survival. With vivid imagery and lyrical intensity, Hart weaves together fragments of the natural world with deeply personal reflections on grief, love, and the passage of time.

THIS SUNDAY @ 7 PM ET. SIGN UP AT EVENTBRITE. Join us to celebrate KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD by Genevieve DeGuzman—The world may be ending, but the reading is just getting started! JackLeg Book Launch! Join us online for the exciting launch of Karaoke at the End of the World by Genevieve DeGuzman! Dive into these unforgettable poems and celebrate with the author herself. It’s gonna be a fun, casual event—grab your favorite snacks and settle in for some great vibes. Join Genevieve DeGuzman and our special guests, Shelley Wong, Margaret Ray, and Traci Brimhall.

Huge thanks to @brynmawrcollege for our incredible cohort of interns!! #awp26

We are so happy this is in the world now!! Don't miss out. Here’s a glimpse of what’s being said… “Chloe Clark is a master of blending the everyday with the strange, the supernatural, and the sublime. In Every Galaxy A Circle, she takes us far, far away, and brings us home again, whole yet changed.” —Christopher Barzak, author of Wonders of the Invisible World

Cover reveal for my forthcoming debut collection @jacklegpress ! I’ll share info about how to pre-order in the coming months. So many hours over so many years went into writing and obsessively editing this book, and I couldn’t be happier with its gorgeous cover!

We wanted to honor these long lines so we are relaunching #Undersea by Maureen Seaton. If you haven't yet enjoyed her work we hope you'll discover all the joy, humor, and loveliness that was Maureen Seaton. You can find this title on our website or @bookshop_org

Out Today!! Thanks to @simonemuenchie for finding this gem + @richard_siken for your great editing work! Congratulations to Cassandra! Cassandra Whitaker’s Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf is indulgent, showing us that everything is connected. Through its use of contrapuntal, the metaphor of a wolf, portraiture, song, repetition, and fragmentation, it cycles through thoughts—about family, gender-based violence, transformation, emptiness—to refine those thoughts and invites readers to do the same. Through this book, I’ve come to know more about the wolf inside the speaker, their mom, dad, lovers, and myself. Through reading this, I’ve relearned what it means to be an active participant—in the act of poetry and life. —KB Brookins, award-winning author of Pretty And, our very own @suzfrischkorn shared this with us: Cassandra Whitaker’s Wolf Devouring a Wolf Devouring a Wolf is a recursive, queer tale of transformation. Vulnerable and fierce, dual and singular, the wolf is external, the wolf is internal, the wolf is dynamic. Whitaker’s powerful, formally innovative poems present a harrowing journey and reach the apogee of realized joy. ‘I am I am I am the oldest answer the moon knows.’ —Suzanne Frischkorn, author of Whipsaw

Live pre-sale! David Wesley Williams’ Come Again No More is a bracing and irresistible headlong dive into the adventures of a middle-aged man trying to decide what he wants to be when he grows up. It’s a tale like a beguiling blue yodel oscillating between heartache and hilarity, with a gallery of eccentrics whose dysfunction you’ll come to envy and a voice as suffused with wit as a Southern-fried George Bernard Shaw. Enjoy! —Steve Stern, author of A Fool’s Kabbalah and The Pinch

Happy pub day to @wavedelch !! “The Book of Echoes is a song not easily sung. “I’m alive and live in my failure to live,” David Welch writes, the imperative clanging against his deft and lyrical restraint. Through captivating accounts of Tourette syndrome, Welch’s language mirrors repeated movements and sounds, embodying Auden’s vision of poetry as “a way of happening, a mouth.” “Look,” he writes, “I cannot move the way you hope I do, a blanket / in the breeze of its own control.” David Welch’s poems celebrate and transform the body’s limits in this intoxicating, unforgettable collection.” —Jenny Molberg, author of The Court of No Record

“Here, obsessions are the avalanche, a crushing destiny, but Glage is a whimsical God. He amplifies the voices of the doomed briefly, allowing us to comprehend their gibberings however abstruse in blasphemy or specialized in vocabulary. His narrators are theologians, public domain opportunists, or otakus of the defamatory, ‘investigating’ murders for the purpose of ruining the reputations of the victims, publishing allegations of infantile occultism, desecrating libraries to find relics of infamy. Not that they do so without risk. The default mood is hysteria.” Fiction Review: @dopiumcoleridge969 Young Reads @joachimglage ’s Apocryphal Story Collection The Devil’s Library @jacklegpress #babyeatbooks Talk to the whimsical god at the link in bio 👼 /2025/05/21/the-devils-library/ #heavyfeatherreview #poetry #amwriting #instapoets #writing #smallpress #chapbook #chapbooks #writersofinstagram #writersofig #bookstagram #books #poetrycommunity #poem #poems #poetrygram #poetrycollection #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #poemsofinstagram #poetsofinstagram #newbooks #bookclub #shortstories #shortstory #prosepoetry #microfiction #flashfiction

On sale now! In This Year’s Ghost, Michael Chin builds each story from the cleverest of premises-ghost subscription service! life without dogs! boys made of stone!-sinking readers immediately into not-quite, just-off worlds and then moving us beyond cleverness to insight, truth, love. I admire especially Chin’s tender balance of charm and sincerity. This collection will haunt me, and my fiction-writing classroom, for ages. -Jennifer A. Howard, author of Flat Stanly Reports to His Third Grader and You on Mars: Failed Sci-Fi Stories