Spring is here, and so is Poetry Month. Please Check out Wesleyan’s new poetry titles. Peter Gizzi’s In Defense of Nothing, Selected Poems 1987–2011 represents close to twenty-five years of work. This generous selection strikes a dynamic balance of honesty, emotion, intellectual depth, and otherworldly resonance. Haunted, vibrant, and saturated with luminous detail, Gizzi’s poetry…
Congratulations Julie Poitras Santos…the next winner in our Spells writing challenge!
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winner2aCongratulations Julie Poitras Santos, of Maine. Winner of the second round of our “Spells” writing challenge, with winning poems selected by Annie Finch. We will post three more prompts in the coming weeks. The current prompt can be found here. Enter to win a copy of Annie Finch’s Spells: New and Selected Poems. Ms. Santos’s poem, is…
Congratulations to our first “Spells” poetry challenge winner!
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Congratulations Carolyn Gage, of Maine. Winner of the first round of our “Spells” writing challenge, with winning poems selected by Annie Finch. We will post three more prompts in the coming weeks. The current prompt can be found here. Enter to win a copy of Annie Finch’s Spells: New and Selected Poems. Ms. Gage submitted a…
New writing prompt from Annie Finch…win a book!
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Wesleyan University Press and Annie Finch invite you to participate in a friendly writing challenge. Take a chance at winning a copy of Annie’s new book, Spells: New and Selected Poems, while creating your own poetry. Throughout the coming weeks, we will post poems by Annie Finch, along with related writing prompts from Annie. We invite…
Twin Cities Book Festival
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We are pleased that Rae Armantrout will be reading at the Twin Cities Book Festival this weekend (October 12th). Get details here. There is a great line up, worth checking out, if you are in the St. Paul area. A big thanks to the festival staff and volunteers, and everyone at Rain Taxi!
Kazim Ali featured in American Poetry Review
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Wesleyan author Kazim Ali graces the cover of American Poetry Review‘s Sept/Oct issue. The issue has five new poems by Kazim (you can read one online) and an extensive interview.
News from Tan Lin
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Tan Lin, author of Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking, wrote the other day, with much good news. Here’s an update on his imaginative projects. The poet, novelist, and filmmaker, has two new works, Bibliograpic Sound Track and Ph.D Sounds, that explore the role of reading in various communication platforms. You can view…
Wesleyan authors interviewed on KCRW’s “Bookworm”
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We are pleased to have had two of our books recently featured on KCRW’s highly regarded poetry program, Bookworm, hosted by Michael Silverblatt. Rae Armantrout was interviewed about Just Saying. Listen here. Pura López Colomé and Forrest Gander (translator) were interviewed about Watchword. Listen here.
Kit Reed reviewed in Wall Street Journal
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We are pleased by this rave-review from the Wall Street Journal. “The title of Kit Reed’s selection of her own short stories, The Story Until Now, reminds us that although she has been writing award-winning fiction for some 50 years, she’s still accelerating. The scope of these 35 stories is immense, their variety unmatched.” Read the full…
Celebrating Aimé Césaire at 100!
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Photo of Césaire courtesy of Al. James Arnold Celebrating Aimé Césaire at 100! Two new translations of overlooked work give us a fresh reading of this important poet. This is the centennial year of Martinican poet, playwright, essayist, and politician Aimé Césaire (June 26, 1913–April 17, 2008). Wesleyan University Press is pleased to announce The…
