It is finally Spring in Connecticut! Our thoughts turn to National Poetry Month, and to the annual AWP Conference, where a number of our authors are participating in readings and signings. If you are attending, be sure to visit our booth, #907. Come take a look at our new poetry books. Don’t miss A Tribute to Gerald Vizenor, and A Wesleyan Reading with Rae Armantrout, Sarah Blake, Heather Christle, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, and Fred Moten. All have signings at our booth as well. Check the schedule for these events, as well as offsite events featuring Wesleyan authors.

praise for Heliopause by Heather Christle
“ Christle reveals further maturation in this, her fourth collection, as she breaks down the belief that to separate oneself from the world is to be safe from it. The book is named for the theoretical boundary between our solar system and the interstellar medium, and Christle transports readers—as if they were human Voyager spacecraft—into just such a liminal zone.”
–Publishers Weekly

praise for The Glory Gets by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
“Jeffers reminds us that very often ‘catharsis is not healing.’ Her poems—about lynching, lost love, racism, the challenges of being a black woman—are never simple, formless rants or indulgent confessionals, but witty, intelligent and sophisticated examinations of very complex issues. The collection is a wonderful wisdom book that is openly vulnerable, uncertain, and yet full of remarkable grace.”
-Kwame Dawes

praise for Mr. West by Sarah Blake
“Blake’s hybridity is an attempt to make more space for the plurality of lives in America. In this sense, Mr. West is an important entry into the ongoing literary conversation on race that would be worthwhile to read alongside Claudia Rankine’s Citizen and Kevin Young’s The Grey Album.”
–Chicago Tribune

praise for Itself by Rae Armantrout
“Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout’s Haiku-like poems are both delightful and deceptively simple. Not easily at rest, Itself examines and plays at the frontiers and frayed edges of concept and language.”
–Oprah.com

 

	praise for Favor of Crows, by Gerald Vizenor “With patience, Favor of Crows opens a deeper understanding of Vizenor’s poetics…The book benefits from reading little by little, so you can be drawn into the poems’ precise focus and encounter a speaker who seems to see the world in haiku moments.” -Rain Taxi
	praise for The Little Edges by Fred Moten “In its extravagance—a word Moten likes—Africa-American music can elicit a heightened kinship with its listeners, by turns sensuous or politicized (sometimes both at once) and suffused with pleasure, joy, deep feeling, resistance. Moten aims to do likewise, using mere words, their sounds, and the visual rhythms of the black-and-white page.” –Hyperallergic