Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS), a print and e-book distributor for university presses and non-profit institutions, will begin providing distribution services for Wesleyan University Press in January 2019. “We’ve long been impressed with Wesleyan University Press’s reputation and award-winning work in the arts and humanities,” says Davida Breier, HFS Manager. “As a publisher and distributor, as…
Weehawken, New Jersey, 11 July 1804 Two-hundred-fourteen years ago today, Alexander Hamilton was mortally wounded by Aaron Burr, in a wooden pistol duel that was the culmination of years of personal and political conflict. Hamilton succumbed to his wounds on July 12th. The incident helped to further legislation banning duels, and Burr was indicted for…
“The Sentient Archive summons a feast of diverse voices, giving each the space to speak without forcing them into a single chorus. Instead, the book works like a landscape where these voices and their shimmering echoes intersect, inviting us in to join the unfinished, disappearing dance of movement and memory, of the sentient body and…
“A call for a ‘ciné-ethnomusicology,’ American Music Documentary is as much an invitation for a critical, reflexive ethno-musicology. Forging new ground in the study—and making—of music films, it is an utterly compelling read.” –Marina Peterson, author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles In American Music Documentary, Benjamin J. Harbert…
View a list of Paris Press books now available through Wesleyan. Paris Press and Wesleyan University Press are pleased to announce Wesleyan’s acquisition of Paris Press. As of May 1, all Paris Press books will be available through Wesleyan University Press and its distributor, University Press of New England. “For years, readers have delighted in…
Wesleyan University Press is pleased to have authors participating in events at both Split This Rock Poetry Festival and the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Camille T. Dungy and Kazim Ali are among the featured readers at Split This Rock, April 19–21 From the festival organizers: Not only does poetry equip us to speak out against oppression…
Join us for a Wesleyan University Press Reading Sarah Blake, Brenda Hillman, Evie Shockley, Kerri Webster, and Kazim Ali Thursday, March 8, 2018 3:00pm – 4:15pm Room 18 & 19, Tampa Convention Center, First Floor Event Number R255 Politically aware poets read from their latest work, reacting to our political climate and reflecting on our…
Kamau Brathwaite was honored with the 2018 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Awarded “to a poet whose distinguished and growing body of work represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.” Ed Roberson, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, and Ocean Vuong acted as judges for the award, noting Brathwaite’s large body of work, including Elegguas, Born to Slow Horses, and Ancestors.…
Evie Shockley’s new book semiautomatic is now available! Poetry that acts as a fierce and loving resistance to violence. “Evie Shockley’s semiautomatic goes beyond mere weaponry. This book is revelatory. A tool in the chest of cultural workers, a vocabulary that resists decoration; this is self-portraiture and truth-telling at its best. From her epic ‘the topsy suite’ to…
Richard Wilbur (March 1, 1921–October 14, 2017), eminent poet and former professor of English, passed away on Saturday, October 14, at the age of 96. Wilbur was a member of Wesleyan University’s faculty from 1957–1977. During his two decades at Wesleyan, he received the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Things of This World (1956), was…
