Cindy Juyoung Ok, translator of The Hell of that Star by Kim Hyesoon, will be at Prairie Lights Books on Friday, April 24 at 7pm with Jack Saebyok Jung! We hope to see you there.
#cindyjuyoungok #kimhyesoon #translation
Sage Ni’Ja Whitson, author of Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities, will be having a virtual event with Charis Books on Wednesday, April 22 at 7:30pm. You can register here: www.crowdcast.io/c/transtrate.... We hope to see you there!
#sagenijawhitson #transtraterrestrial
Congratulations Heather Christle, author of Paper Crown, for being named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow!
#heatherchristle #papercrown #guggenheimfellow
Check out these two great reviews of Burning Oracle by Sandra Simonds!
New York Public Library: www.nypl.org/books-more/r...
rob mclennan’s blog: robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/03/sand...
#burningoracle #sandrasimonds
Congratulations Edgar Garcia, author of Cantares, for being selected for a residency at the James Merrill House in Stonington, CT for September 2026, and being the recipient of a 2026 Grants to Artists Award in Poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts!
#edgargarcia #cantares #poetry
In honor of National Poetry Month, we are highlighting some of Wesleyan University Press’ poets! First we have Edgar Garcia, author of Cantares. You can buy his book on weslpress.org today.
#cantares #edgargarcia #nationalpoetrymonth
Check out these interviews and reviews of Room Swept Home by Remica Bingham-Risher!
From The Rumpus therumpus.net/2025/12/19/i...
From A Gathering Together agatheringtogether.squarespace.com/blog/blues-a...
Interviews: oword.deesoulpoetry.com/p/room-swept... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Aio...
We’re excited to announce that Communities of Sound by Carola E. Lorea is available for sale on weslpress.org and bookstores near you and is Open Access on Project Muse!
#communtiesofsound #carolalorea #music
Celebrate National Poetry Month by getting your Wesleyan University Press poetry series t-shirt today! You can purchase one here: wesleyan.estore.flywire.com/products/wes...!
#merch #nationalpoetrymonth
Edgar Garcia, author of Cantares, will be speaking at the New Orleans Poetry Festival this Friday for “Cantar/es: Mesoamerican Aesthetics and Poetics” at 11am! We hope to see you there. #edgargarcia #cantares #poetry
Happy National Poetry Month from the Wesleyan University Press! Celebrate this April by exploring our recently published poetry collections here: www.weslpress.org/national-poe...!
#nationalpoetrymonth #poetry #wespress
Camille Dungy, author of America, A Love Story, will be at Aspen Grove with Kate Schatz on April 15 at 5:30pm! We hope to see you there!
#camilledungy #americaalovestory #poetry
Camille Dungy, author of America, A Love Story, will be having a virtual craft workshop with Writing the Wild on April 13 at 6pm! We hope to see you there!
#camilledungy #americaalovestory #poetry
Sandra Simonds, author of Burning Oracle, will be giving a talk on “How A Book Takes Shape” at the University of North Florida on April 14 at 6:30pm! We hope to see you there!
#sandrasimonds #burningoracle #poetry
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Carol Ann Davis, author of Songbird, will be sharing and discussing her work as part of a moderated panel alongside Yexandra Diaz, Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, Victoria Buitron, Julien Strong, and Sun Queen.
#carolanndavis #songbird
Wesleyan undergraduate students, please join us this summer for our in-person class, “The Art and Practice of Publishing.” This course will feature 4 weeks of hands-on learning with award-winning authors and editors! For more information, go to wesleyan.edu/summer or email summer@wesleyan.edu.
Elliott Sharp, author of Feedback, will be at Grey Matter Books this Friday at 7pm. We hope to see you there!
#elliottsharp #feedback #music
Cindy Juyoung Ok, translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon, will be at Woolsey Heights on Saturday, April 11 at 8pm. We hope to see you there!
#cindyjuyoungok #thehellofthatstar #translation
Cantares by Edgar Garcia is now available on weslpress.org or at your local bookstore! Be sure to get your copy today! 📖
#cantares #edgargarcia #poetry
Sandra Simonds, author of Burning Oracle, will be at Columbia University at 6pm on Wednesday, April 8! Be sure to register before the event, and we hope to see you there.
#sandrasimonds #burningoracle #poetry
Camille Dungy will be instructing a virtual poetry masterclass on April 8th, from 7-9pm as part of Chicago’s StoryStudio “Pajama Seminars” program. We hope to see you there!
#camilledungy #americaalovestory #poetry
Gallatin will be hosting a Marathon Reading for The Museum of Unnatural History by Annie Wenstrup on Tuesday, April 7 at 1pm. We hope to see you there!
#anniewenstrup #themuseumofunnaturalhistories #poetry
Sandra Simonds, author of Burning Oracle, will be at Poets House for Poets Confront AI and Surveillance Capitalism on Tuesday, April 7 at 7pm. We hope to see you there!
#sandrasimonds #burningoracle #poetshouse
Forthcoming from Wesleyan this April, Jam: Contact Improv and Recipes by Mason Jarret, Deconstructing the Triangle: Left, Right, Bottom by Tyne Galing, and Some Files Were Found in the Attic: The Lost Limericks of John Cage.
#jam #deconstructingthetriangle #lostlimericksofjohncage
What a lovely reading with Rachel Tzvia Back, author of The Dark Robed Mother, in Brooklyn. You can get a copy of Rachel’s book on weslpress.org today!
Photo Credit: Irena Klepfisz
#racheltzviaback #thedarkrobedmother #memoir
Sandra Simonds, author of Burning Oracle, will be at the Hudson Valley Writers Center with Sean Singer on Saturday, April 4 at 4pm! We hope to see you there.
#sandrasimonds #burningoracle #poetry
Cindy Juyoung Ok, translator of The Hell of That Star by Kim Hyesoon, is a presenter for the session “Poetics of Anti-Imperial Imaginaries” at the AAAS Conference in Honolulu, Hawai’i. Her session will be held on Friday, April 3rd, 10-11:30am.
#cindyjuyoungok #kimhyesoon #thehellofthatstar
Joan Naviyuk Kane, co-editor of Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic, was interviewed by David Naimon on the Between the Covers podcast. Check out the interview here: milkweed.org/between-the-...!
#joannaviyukkane #circumpolarconnections #interview
Are you a Wesleyan University undergrad interested in gaining experience in book publishing? Apply on Handshake before April 24 to become Wesleyan University Press's summer Marketing/Publicity Assistant!
For more information, visit Handshake: app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/108...
Check out David Lloyd’s review of Go Figure by Rae Armantrout in Poetry Salzburg!
#gofigure #raearmantrout #poetry #review