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Material, Caballero’s most recent and seventh manuscript, was awarded Trio House Press’ Editors Selection for Poetry in 2025 and will be published by the press on May 15, 2026.

This book belongs on a shelf beside authors who’ve fused narrative and poetic forms to deeply investigate the nature of selfhood, such as Jenny Offill, Maggie Nelson, Clarice Lispector and Annie Ernaux.

The speaker of Material reveals themself quickly and without apology.

Material is a book with no place to hide, offering a mature rendering of how experience cuts as it sculpts. It’s a book about the different ways strength manifests and how recorded observation becomes both protest and care.

Material is divided into five sections, each presenting unique, tightly packaged moments of private resistance made public. The fifth section challenges common poetic structures with texts that employ the force of narrative to tell urgent, familial stories in which bearing witness wields the power of redemption.

Jan Beatty, an early reader, has described Material as “a stunning book of clear intention, living within the systems that shelter and fail us: Caballero’s work is fearless in its purposeful meeting of tender love and heart-rending loss, its push to describe how a woman arrives at a place of mourning in one’s body while living a full daily life; how to survive while lovingly parent; how to continue to write in the midst of it all.”