We are very pleased to announce the upcoming release of Paula Bohince’s new book of poems, A Violence, out in October from Princeton UP, selected by series editor Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Mark Doty has called it “ecstatic, woeful, and gorgeous.”  Check out the publisher’s page right now-!

We’re thrilled to congratulate Cimarron contributor Craig Bernardini on his short story collection, 12 Oxen Under the Sea, forthcoming from New American Press.

His story, “The Hotel Fire,” first appeared in Issue 189 of Cimarron in Fall 2014.

We’re thrilled to congratulate longtime Cimarron contributor Lesley Wheeler on her poetry collection, Mycocosmic, out this Friday from Tupelo Press. Click here to order a copy!

Her poem, “Counterphobic,” first appeared in Issue 219/220 of Cimarron and is included in Lesley’s latest collection.

Without fungi and bacteria, death would overwhelm the planet. In Mycocosmic, Lesley Wheeler’s latest poetry collection, incantatory poems summon transformation after the losses of midlife, including her mother’s death. Beneath them runs a book-length essay in verse inspired by mycelia, the fungal networks thriving beneath us, exploring how the processes of grief nourish new life. Wheeler invents a fungal poetics to metabolize secrets, grief, and anger so that life can begin anew.

‘People radiate light they cannot see,’ writes Lesley Wheeler in Mycocosmic, a brilliantly structured book that glimmers with tensions and betrayals, that blazes with gratitude and resilience. Wheeler’s language is alive on the page; it pulses with a perceptiveness that braids thought and sensation into imagery that startles, shines. The footnote-poem is striking—a lyrical summoning that enriches and complicates. Mycocosmic is a marvelous book that demands and rewards multiple readings.  —Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine

Lesley Wheeler, poetry editor of Shenandoah, is the author of Mycocosmic, runner-up for the Dorset Prize and her sixth poetry collection. Her other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds; the novel Unbecoming; and poetry collections The State She’s In, Radioland, and Heterotopia. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Poets & Writers, Cimarron Review, and Ecotone, and her work has been supported by grants from Fulbright, Bread Loaf Environmental Writers Workshop, and the Sewanee Writers Conference.

We’re thrilled to congratulate Cimarron contributor Theodora Ziolkowski on her poetry collection, Ghostlit, out 3/10/25 from Texas Review Press. Click here to order a copy!

We were honored to publish Theodora’s poems back in Issue 214/215.

Intimate, urgent, and relentlessly inventive, the poems in Ghostlit reflect upon mythology and feminist pop culture and contemporary ideology as they may become embedded in the psyches and even the bodies of their inheritors. Through visceral and sometimes gothic-inspired images, mythological allusions, and the assemblage of strands of narrative, the poems in this collection chart the ways in which manipulative emotional strategies on individual and cultural levels inflict lingering harm upon minds and bodies. Throughout, the poems peel back the layers of what it means for an abuse survivor to reclaim a sense of self—long after the damage has been done. “It turns out that the years I believed myself lucky/were partly responsible for my thinking/there was something deeply wrong with me” could be understood as a refrain for the speaker in Ghostlit or as a shorthand for a cautionary tale about how many survivors may be encouraged to deny the reality of abuse.

We’re closing out 2024 with wonderful news: our latest double issue has arrived! Featuring work from Eryn Green, Sergio Reyes, Bergita Bugarija, Richard Sonnenmoser, and many other fantastic contributors, this issue will be available for purchase soon. Copies can be purchased through our Online Payment Hub.

If you’d like to learn more about the issue, click here for the masthead, contributing writers, and issue samples.