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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

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

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

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

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)