Annie Finch’s new book, Spells: New and Selected Poems, will be in stores in time for Poetry Month. Annie is a master of form. You may enjoy the sounds of the poems when read aloud. Read with friends! Stay tuned for events announcements. You can read a sample here.
AWP Boston
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Thanks to our authors and readers for making AWP special, year after year. Special thanks to Samuel (Chip) Delany, Kit Reed, Kazim Ali, Rae Aramntrout, Annie Finch, and Jena Osman for participating in readings, and to Dennis Barone for organizing a panel on Connecticut poetry. Thanks to everyone else for stopping by our booth to…
Teaming up with Tor for Kit Reed sweepstakes
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Check out Tor’s blog here for a chance to win a copy of Kit Reed’s The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories.
“Making Freedom” finds wide exposure
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Wesleyan UP’s book Making Freedom: The Extraordinary Life of Venture Smith is finding its way into more libraries across Connecticut. 850 copies of the book will be donated to libraries statewide, thanks to co-author Chandler Saint and congresswoman Rosa DeLauro. The distribution project was announced by five members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation, at a press…
Joseph Ceravolo “Collected Poems” getting around NYC
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Friends spotted Joseph Ceravolo’s Collected Poems on sale at Unnameable Books, in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. We hope you can join us at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, Manhattan, for a celebratory reading on April 17th, 7PM.
Annie Finch writes on witches
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Annie Finch’s Spells: New and Selected Poems is due out in April. Read her article, “A New Witch in Town,” at the Huffington Post. If you are a fan of Annie Finch, please “like” her article and help us move it to the Huffington Post’s front page.
Harvey Shapiro, 1924-2013
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We are honored to have published the poetry of Harvey Shapiro, who recently passed at the age of 88. Read the full obituary, from the New York Times, here. BROOKLYN NIGHTS We are like inhabitants of a southern river town gathering summer evenings by the water. A flock of bridges greet us and the…
Wesleyan UP Influence Map
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Please enjoy our interactive Influence Map, highlighting our press’s international scope. Click here to learn more about the map.
Congratulations to David Ferry
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Congratulations to David Ferry for his National Book Award in the Poetry category. Ferry published his first volume of poetry, On the Way to the Island, with Wesleyan UP in 1960.
Happy Halloween from Wesleyan University Press
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Happy Halloween… Looking for a nail-biting story to celebrate Halloween? Forget Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula, try Michael E. Bell’s Food for the Dead! In chilling detail, Bell reconstructs a distant world, where on March 17, 1892, three corpses were exhumed from a Rhode Island cemetery. One of them, Mercy Brown, who had succumbed to…
