"The power of the volume lies not in its mastery of form but in the wildly vivid language—her voice has as much life and energy as the character it sets out to describe."
Huge gratitude to John P. Loonam for this stunning review of I'll Take My Body To-Go!
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IT'S HERE! 🎉
The Akron Poetry Prize is now open!
The competition is open to all poets writing in English. The winning poet receives $1,500 and publication of their book as part of the Akron Series in Poetry.
Full details here: theuniversityofakronpress.submittable.com/submit
ICYMI: THE AKRON #POETRY #PRIZE OPENS IN 2 DAYS!
👉 Open to all #poets writing in English
👉 $1,500 prize & publication of book
👉 Final judge = Brenda Shaughnessy
👉 #Manuscripts, 48-90 pgs, accepted via Submittable Apr. 15-June 15
View guidelines:
www.uakron.edu/uapress/akro...
#Competition
ICYMI: We're delighted to partner with Bierce Library to bring poetry to campus and the community for #NationalPoetryMonth!
Stay tuned for more news about the upcoming poetry event and more. ✨
#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetryreading #akron #akronohio #poets
We want to wish a happy publication day to S. Victor Fleischer and Toivo Motter, editors of Lost Voices of the Great War!
#newreleases #universitypress #Ohio #history #SummitCounty #WWI
Is it a coincidence that we announced @annahlbrowning's forthcoming #poetry collection #Cryptid is available for preorder and now #Bigfoot has been spotted all over #Ohio?
We think not.
Order now and save 30% with code PoetryLives26 here: blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod...
Happy Publication Day to When Ohio Was Blue by Dale Butland!
When Ohio Was Blue is a political memoir for readers who may not be deeply immersed in—or even particularly fond of—politics.
Order now: blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod...
It's one of our favorite stories!
✨ AWP author signings ✨
We won't be in #Baltimore this year. BUT you can still get your UA Press #poetry books signed by our #poets!
Thanks to our friends at @neomfa.bsky.social who have generously agreed to host our author signings. ❤
Browse our forthcoming books: blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/
Many thanks to Madison Helbig at Signal Akron for including Cryptid on this great list of books to look forward to in 2026.
Full list here: signalakron.org/akron-here-a...
Preorder coming soon!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #forthcomingbooks #universitypress #poetrylovers #Cryptid #aliens #paranormal
“The lost dog won’t let me tether it. // Our neighbor strips on his porch, / out of his mind. // The monarch with the deformed wing / does not live happily among the zinnias / like I promised the children.” —Sarah Green @sixthfinch.bsky.social @uakronpress.bsky.social sixthfinch.com/sgreen7.html
Far more than simply a memoir, When Ohio Was Blue provides readers with a behind-the-scenes account of what it was like to work at the highest level of Ohio politics during the 1980s and ’90s.
Preorder now and save 30% with code POLITICS30.
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Don't miss the Akron Bicentennial musical event of the year!
Join us Wednesday, Dec 3 2025, at 7 pm at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall for “A Concert For Akron, By Akron," where we're honored to be selling copies of Akron at 200 50% off.
Reserve your tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-concert-...
We love a good conversation about poetry! 🔥
Check out this interview up at On the Seawall: www.ronslate.com/a-dialogue-w...
Shoutout to Derek Mong for mentioning Sarah Green's The Deletions!
#publishing #smallpress #universitypress #poetry #akron #ohio #womenauthors #poetrycommunity
Heading to the Byckeye Book Fair tomorrow? Be sure to say hi to all the UA Press authors attending! You'll find Dr. Jon Miller, Dr. Steven D. Hambley, and John W. Kropf with their latest works at the book fair from 9:30am to 4pm.
#bookfair #authors #Ohio #buckeyes #newbooks #localhistory #festival
NEW ESSAY ALERT! ☄
There is much to enjoy in Ryan Teitman's latest essay up at Poetry Foundation, as part of This Be the Place, a series of short essays in which poets explore the mysteries and meaning of a particular place.
Read it here: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/173...
Of colliding climates of grief, of the hidden qualities of stanzas, of not fiction but possibility, of Blueberries for Sal & Italian squares & how words work with the world & writing heavy things lightly & more!
Episode 79 with @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social is here! @uakronpress.bsky.social 🎙️📚💙
from "Apostrophe" I know now, if I drive long enough, // yearning opens onto a smooth lake in the dark / where I can set down my lanterns like questions. Sarah Green
Listen to Episode 79 with @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social here: share.transistor.fm/s/23bf7d41
And read the full poem “Apostrophe” here: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sa...
📚💙🎙️ #poetry #podcast #booksky
@uakronpress.bsky.social
Adrenalized by this beautiful review of NONBINARY BIRD OF PARADISE (@uakronpress.bsky.social) by Catie Macaulay for @sundresspub.bsky.social. I feel like he truly GOT the book, its whole structure, each gesture. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Looking for a piece of #akron history? Join us this weekend at Cascade Locks Parks Association for the Akron Oatmeal Festival where we'll have copies of Akron at 200 and even more local history books on sale!
#sale #newbooks #localhistory #Ohio #festival #bicentennialcelebration
Happy Pub Day!
What Remains is about memories and stories; how at times we collectively remember, forget, or even invent new pasts through the process of tracing and uncovering our own histories.
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#anthropology #newbookrelease #archaeologylovers
Congratulations to Alfredo Aguilar of Lockhart, TX, who has won the 2025 Akron Poetry Prize as chosen by Eduardo C. Corral! 🎉
This year's contest received a total of 586 entries. Congratulations also to all the finalists as well!
Read the full announcement here: www.uakron.edu/uapress/akro....
Less than two weeks until the winners of the Lambda Literary Awards are announced during the virtual ceremony! 🎉
Join us in rooting for all the #finalists, but especially UA Press #author @emdashphillips.bsky.social!
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#poetry #poetrycommunity #universitypress
We are beyond thrilled to share that Lena Khalaf Tuffaha has won the 2025 Washington State Book Award for Poetry! 🎉
Please join us in congratulating her on another well-deserved win!
Huge gratitude to the Washington State Library for selecting Lena's collection Something About Living.
The @aupresses.bsky.social's 2025 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show is now open in the Project Gallery at the Myers School of Art until 9/24! 📚
We are honored to host the interactive #exhibit. If you love the look and feel of #books, you won't want to miss it!
#universitypress #bookdesign #visualarts
📚 Happy Publication Day to Akron at 200! 📚
Order now and save 30% with code bicentennial30!
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#OhioHistory #akron #akronohio #history #bicentennial #universitypress #publicationday
Join us THIS Friday, 9/12, @ 10am at Inkubator, Literary Cleveland's Free Writing Conference, where we're super excited to be tabling for the #bookfair!
The book fair will be in the Stokes Wing of the Cleveland Public Library. See you there!
#universitypress #cleveland #conference #writing #poetry
We are thrilled to share that Something About Living by @lenatuffaha is a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards!
Huge thanks to the Washington Center for the Book for selecting this collection as a finalist, and congratulations to all the 2025 finalists!
#poetry #poetrycommunity #writers
Listen now: New interview with Sarah Green on the viewless wings poetry podcast! 🔥
viewlesswings.com/2025/08/25/p...
#poetry #poets #poetrycommunity #interview #Spotify #podcast #universitypress #writers
NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!
What Remains: Infirmary, Burials, Memory, Community in the Rubber City presents a grassy field with a complicated and fraught history.
Learn more and preorder: blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod...
Save 30% with code WHAT30. Note: discount does not work on mobile devices.