Rachel Trousdale will be doing a reading and discussion at her university, Framingham State University! Join Rachel on Thursday, September 25th from 6:30 - 7:30pm. For more information, check out www.framingham.edu/events?trumb... #racheltrousdale #poetry #framinghamstateuniversity

In memory of Pierre Joris (1946-2025), please join us for two events held as part of the Albany Book Festival on Saturday, September 27th. 📖 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Pierre Joris - Poasis and Beyond: Always the Many 📖 6:30 p.m. Reading and Performance

Poets, Heather Christle and Wendy Xu, will be joining Edwin Torres, James Sherry, and Joey De Jesus for a reading at McNally Jackson Books in Seaport on September 26 at 6:30pm! #poetry #heatherchristle #wendyxu #mcnallyjacksonbooks

Join Edgar Garcia, author of CANTARES, at his reading at the University of Cincinnati’s Visiting Writers Series! This event will take place on September 24 at 5:30pm. For more information, check out www.artsci.uc.edu/humanities/e...

Tune into Kelly Writers House PoemTalk to hear more about the works of Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg! You can listen at www.youtube.com/live/hsTF1gY... #poetry #kellywritershouse #pierrejoris #jeromerothenberg

Calling all Wesleyan student artists and graphic designers! Wesleyan University Press is holding a T-shirt design competition, where the winner will receive $100 and five of their winning T-shirts. Email your design to [email protected] by Oct. 17th #competition #wesleyan #design

Check out Isabelle Baafi’s poem “Ouroboros” from Chaotic Good in Poetry Daily! You can read the full piece here: spare.poems.com/poem/ourobor...

Poet Evie Shockley joins Franny Choi, Chet’la Sebree, and Rob Arnold for “What the Poem Makes Possible” at the Brooklyn Book Festival. This event will be on September 21 at 10am at Center Stage! For more info, head to brooklynbookfestival.org/event/what-t... #evieshockley #brooklynbookfestival

Author and composer Elliott Sharp is going on a European tour! He’ll be making stops throughout Germany, Switzerland, and Italy from September 20th to October 6th. For more information about Elliott Sharp's tour, check out www.weslpress.org/elliott-shar... #elliottsharp #europeontour #music

Join Rachel Trousdale at her reading with Stephen Haven at Robbins Library in Arlington, MA. This reading will be on September 23rd at 7 pm! #racheltrousdale #robbinslibrary #poetry

Congratulations to A. B. Spellman and his editor, Lauri Scheyer! Their book, Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems, was selected by the Before Columbus Foundation as a winner of the 2025 American Book Award. #americanbookaward #abspellman #poetry

Join Edgar Garcia, author of CANTARES (publishing March 2026), at the International Symposium of Experimental Poetry! Garcia will be doing a talk on September 18th at 9 am CST and a reading at 6 pm CST at Ibero-American University. #edgargarcia #cantares #poetry

Join Heather Christle, author of Paper Crown and professor at Emory, at her reading and colloquium at the Emory Creative Writing Program Reading Series. Christle will be doing a reading on September 17th at 6:30 pm and a colloquium on September 18th at 1 pm. #heatherchristle #emory #poetryreading

Check out the ourculture interview with Superchunk to hear more about Heather Christle’s writing and some of Mac MacCaughan’s favorite pieces. You can read it at ourculturemag.com/2025/08/22/s... #superchunk #poetry #grief

We are proud to celebrate Benjamin Barson and his book Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons for being chosen as a Finalist for the MAAH Stone Book Award! #maahmuseum #brassrootsdemocracy #musichistory

Tune into “The Grief Glimmers Podcast” to hear more about Andrea Werblin Reid’s To See Yourself As You Vanish, from Andrea’s dear friend, Sarah Sawyer. You can listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2... #ovariancancer #poetry #grief

Poetry Project is hosting a memorial for Pierre Joris and book launch for Poasis II: Selected Poems 2000–2024 tomorrow, Sept. 12. Learn more at the Poetry Project website: www.poetryproject.org/events/pierr... This event is free and no reservation is required. #pierrejoris #poasis #poetry

We are excited that Room Swept Home was chosen as a Poetry finalist for the 2025 Virginia Literary Awards! Join Remica Bingham-Risher at the Virginia Literary Awards Celebration on Saturday, Sept. 20 in Richmond at the Library of Virginia. You can purchase tickets at lvafoundation.org/tickets/

Join us Sept. 19-21 for a celebration of Jack Spicer's poetry as Small Press Traffic presents "Poetry as Magic: Celebrating the Fran Herndon & Jack Spicer Centennials."

Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer, edited by Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, Daniel Benjamin, is now available for purchase! Order a copy from weslpress.org today.

Join us on September 4th at 7 p.m. EDT for a Virtual Craft Chat with Heather Christle, organized by Poet Lore and The Writer's Center! This event is free and open to the public on Zoom. Register here: writer.org/event/heathe...

Congratulations to Benjamin Barson, whose book Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons has been selected for the MAAH Stone Book Award Shortlist! Visit weslpress.org to order a copy!

Earlier this year, Gerald Vizenor released his newest book, Theatre of Chance: Native Celebrities of Nothing in an Existential Colony. Visit weslpress.org to order!

Two collections by Jack Spicer are being published! Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared: The Collected Letters of Jack Spicer, edited by Kevin Killian, Kelly Holt, and Daniel Benjamin (9/2) The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi (9/9)

Be among the first 10 readers to purchase BOTH Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared and the new edition of The House That Jack Built in hardcover for a chance to win a limited-edition mug! Use the discount code QSpicer40 to receive a 40% discount on the two hardcovers and qualify for the giveaway.

Fans of Heather Christle and her new collection, Paper Crown, will have several opportunities to hear her speak in September both in person and on Zoom! #HeatherChristle #PaperCrown #Poetry

We are excited to announce new book releases in September! Pre-order them now at weslpress.org

We are pleased to announce that Sumarsam's book is being carried by two bookstores in Indonesia and was recently made Open Access to make it more accessible internationally.

Beginning August 19th, you can buy I Ask My Mother to Sing, a chapbook of new and selected mother poems by celebrated poet Li-Young Lee. Visit weslpress.org to learn more or read Aiden Hunt's review at www.newpages.com/blog/books/b...

Beginning August 19th, you can buy I Ask My Mother to Sing, a chapbook of new and selected mother poems by celebrated poet Li-Young Lee. Visit weslpress.org to learn more or read Aiden Hunt's review at www.newpages.com/blog/books/b... #poetry #mother #chapbook

Join Rachel Trousdale at the Bryant Park Reading Room on August 12th at 6pm! Rachel will be reading alongside other distinguished authors, Francisco Delgado, Didi Jackson, and Marion Wrenn. bryantpark.org/calendar/eve...

Emilee Lord deems Dance History(s), Imagination as a Form of Study as a "workbook, a toolkit, and a guide" for anyone who seeks to "understand their own becoming." To read the full review, visit www.thinkingdance.net/articles/202...

Imani Sanga of Ethnomusicology Forum praises Sounds of Other Shores by Andrew J. Eisenberg, expressing how it informs our understanding of Taarab music "and its entanglement with Swahili identity and history." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Camille Dungy had a poem from her upcoming collection, America, A Love Story (Wesleyan, March 2026), featured on the podcast, The Slowdown! Listen to the poem at www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2025...

Heather Christle's Paper Crown is now available for order! Check it out at weslpress.org or a bookstore near you.

Sarah Sawyer, Andrea Werblin Reid's best friend who has played an integral role in the emergence of To See Yourself As You Vanish, was interviewed about the book on the podcast, "Hospice Explained." Check out the interview here! hospiceexplained.libsyn.com/episode-158

12 or 20 (second series) questions with fahima ife / @weslpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/12-o...

“…try new things that will surprise you as you work for the joy of the process, remembering that all a writer needs are four true readers & one of them can be a tree.” —Brenda Hillman @weslpress.bsky.social

Free! In Person and Online, 7/31, Poets House! poetshouse.org/event/spirit...

We are so proud of Rachel Trousdale whose book, Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, was selected as a Poetry Finalist for the New England Book Awards! Order Rachel's book today at www.weslpress.org/978081950185... #neiba #newenglandbookawards #bookawards

Indigenous Nations Poets is hosting its fourth annual week-long retreat for emerging Native poets in New York City! Join Annie Wenstrup, author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories, for three unforgettable evenings that honor Indigenous creativity, community, and spirit.

A huge congratulations to Isabelle Baafi whose UK version of Chaotic Good was shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection! Check out the US version at weslpress.org and UK version at faber.co.uk #forwardprizes #poetry

Tonight! Isabelle Baafi, Rachel Trousdale, and Callie Garnett at Unnameable Books, 7pm. unnameablebooks.square.site

Join us on July 19th from 10am-3pm for the Old Wethersfield Book Walk! Make sure to stop by the Webb Deane Stevens Museum booth and talk to Stephanie Prieto. You can grab a copy of Preservation in Action and peruse other Connecticut history books from WesPress! oldwethersfield.com/book-walk/

Heather Christle's newest collection of poetry, Paper Crown, will be released on August 5th, 2025! Pre-order your copy at weslpress.org.

Join Isabelle Baafi, Rachel Trousdale, and Callie Garnett for a reading at Unnameable Books on July 17th at 7pm. unnameablebooks.square.site

Join Isabelle Baafi at the Bryant Park reading series on July 15th from 6-7:30pm! bryantpark.org/activities/r...

Their Kindred Earth is now available for order! Check it out at weslpress.org or a bookstore near you.

On June 27th, Fulya Pinar and Shayna Silverstein, recipient of the 2025 de la Torre Bueno First Book Award for Fraught Balance, discussed Silverstein's book in a podcast interview.