To Befriend a Book, first select the part of the book's journey you would like to support by choosing one of the tiles below. You'll then have the option to choose the specific book you'd like your gift to support. Each contribution to this year's campaign enters you for a chance to win a SIGNED Year-of-Books subscription, with books mailed as they're published over the next year.
Multiple entries are allowed!
The winner will be announced via email and social media on August 4, 2025
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BOOKS YOU CAN SUPPORT:
💎 Saint Consequence by Michael M. Weinstein - A debut exploring the body as a site of painful and beautiful transformation—both chosen and imposed.
⚖️ All the Possible Bodies by Iain Haley Pollock - A powerful reckoning with violence, racial justice, and the intersection of personal and national identity.
🌱 The Seeds by Cecily Parks - A fierce and intimate portrait of homemaking and ecological care amid environmental uncertainty.
🌘 Let the Moon Wobble by Ally Ang - Poems of grief, rage, and resilience in the face of converging apocalypses—pandemic, climate, and political.
🏚️ The Palace by Andrés Cerpa -The Palace charts a family's journey to build a life and home in a world that is often violent and rife with economic instability.
⭐️ A Holy Dread by R. A. Villanueva - Tender and urgent poems about inheritance, identity, and the fragile world we pass on to our children.
🕊️ The Pavese Stone by Judith Vollmer - A richly lyrical journey through memory and landscape, inspired by Cesare Pavese and the Italian countryside.
🌀 Reverse Requiem by Ina Cariño - A bold exploration of mental health, ancestry, and human connection within the broken systems we inherit.
🍃Veer by Cole Swensen - These poems challenge the presumption that “nature” is an “other,” suggesting instead that we all—animal, plant, mineral—are seamlessly fused in the joint project of living.
📸Scrap Book by Nick Martino - A hybrid debut unearthing a Michigan family’s inherited history marked by silence, fracture, shame, and addiction.
❤️Heartmoor by Mihaela Moscaliuc - Formally rich poems examining displacement, authoritarianism, and complicity—while holding space for joy, wonder, and care.
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