Upcoming Books
A Solitary Game of Tag by Josje Weusten
December · Fruiter Press
A chapbook of poems that moves through a 1970s and 1980s European childhood and into the adult speaker's present, where she raises two daughters of her own. Across short, closely observed scenes — a mother's five-meter leash on a Sunday walk, watercolour bleeding past a pencil line, drunk wasps circling fallen apricots, a VHS tape of a brother who did not survive, a father's unopened will — Josje traces how early silences and inherited harms travel forward, and how a parent might finally see them clearly enough to cut the pattern.
About the author: Josje Weusten is a Dutch poet and writer living in Belgium who writes in English and Dutch. Her poems have appeared in Low Hanging Fruit, Merion West, The Bookends Review and Burningword Literary Journal. She is the author of the novel Fake Fish (Sparsile Books, 2024), and her short fiction won the 2025 Writefest Belgium Short Story Contest. She teaches literary studies and creative writing at Maastricht University.
Reasoning Machine by Kalvin M. Madsen
February 2027 · Fruiter Press
Reasoning Machine is Kalvin M. Madsen's debut poetry collection, forthcoming in February 2027 from Fruiter Press. The book grows out of an open exchange between poet and reader: feed the machine something — a photo, a piece of text, an object, anything — and tell it what it means to you, and Kalvin writes a poem from it, by hand.
The New Coliseum, Kalvin's sixth album, is an acoustic companion with songs drawn from the book's poems.
In his debut poetry collection, Los Angeles actor Max Madsen maps a life through the places that shaped it: a street corner in Koreatown, a two-lane highway in Montana, a couch in Bed-Stuy, a foggy afternoon in Golden Gate Park. Written in spare, unguarded lines and paired with vintage black-and-white imagery, these poems move between the road and the rearview, chasing lost loves, late-night drives with a brother, and small moments that refuse to fade. At its heart is a tribute to his father, the late actor Michael Madsen, who appears shooting bottle rockets on a Malibu beach and weeping over an old TV western. Tender, restless, and quietly funny, this is a book about how the moments we share are “forever ingrained in time.”
