Safa Khatib’s collection A Dress of Locusts was published in June in the UK by Bloomsbury Poetry. It can be ordered directly via Leviathan Bookstore on South Grand, which has a relationship with a UK-based book distributor.

In other news... Lunette Press, a project started by Safa and funded by small grants from the Center for the Humanities and CRE2, published Ariel Francisco’s chapbook My Sleep Paralysis Demon Kisses Me Goodnight on August 15. Chapbooks are hand-sewn and published in a limited run of 100 editions. You can find the book via the press website or Instagram page.

Forthcoming authors and translators to be published in 2025/2026 include: poet Layla Azmi Goushey, translator AJ Javaheri, poet Mona Kareem, street medic and anti-war activist Ann Hirschman, and translator David Iaconangelo.