Elliott Sharp and Janene Higgins will be presenting Entanglement Suite at Holyoke Media on November 13 at 7:30pm! For more information on the event, go to holyokemedia.org/event/valley...! #elliottsharp #janenehiggins #music #feedback

A beautiful excerpt from Eduardo C. Corral’s “In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes” from Katherine Duarte's chapbook, A las orillas del Río Viejo! To read the full poem, get your copy today at weslpress.org! #poetry #chapbook #eduardocorral

Please join us for Edgar Garcia's opera, The Zarabanda Variations, at Fordham University in NYC on November 14 6pm! We hope to see you there! #edgargarcia #fordham #nyc

Meet Luis Achondo, author of The Sounds of Aguante: Politics of Fandom in South American Football! Purchase his book now at weslpress.org! #luisachondo #thesoundsofaguante

Please join us for a Colloquium with Elliott Sharp and a performance from Sharp and Janene Higgins of Entanglement Suite on November 12 at Wesleyan University. The colloquium will be at 4:30pm and the performance will be at 8pm all in Ring Family Performing Arts Hall. #elliottsharp #janenehiggins

Please join us for a reading with Heather Christle, Rachel Trousdale, and Martha Ronk hosted by Grolier Poetry Book Shop on November 13 at 7pm in person and on Zoom! In person sign up: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/a7uq2... Virtual sign up: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/7ttdx...

At SEM in October, Shayna M. Silverstein and her book, Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria, won the Joann Kealiinohomoku Prize and was named as an Honorable Mention for the Ruth Stone Prize. Congratulations Shayna! #fraughtbalance #ethnomusicology #bookaward

Sage Ni'Ja Whitson's Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities is now available! Be sure to get your copy today at www.weslpress.org/978081950199... #sagenijawhitson #dance #transtraterrestrial

Today is the day! Feedback: Translations from the IrRational by Elliott Sharp is now available! 📖 Be sure to get your copy today at www.weslpress.org/978081950205... #elliottsharp #music #feedback

Wishing a huge congratulations to Isabelle Baafi whose UK edition of Chaotic Good won the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection! Get your copy today on weslpress.org! #poetry #jerwoodprize #isabellebaafi

Please join Remica Bingham-Risher for a reading with Lauren Espinoza and Lauren Licona at ASU on November 7 at 7pm. We hope to see you there! #poetry #remicabinghamrisher #arizonastate

A beautiful excerpt from Sean Forbes’s “I’m there but for the taking” from Katherine Duarte's chapbook, A las orillas del Río Viejo! To read the full poem, get your copy today at weslpress.org! #poetry #chapbook #seanforbes

Boise State Public Radio featured “Samhain" by Annie Finch on their program Something I Heard from October 30th! Check it out here: www.boisestatepublicradio.org/show/somethi... You can purchase a copy of Annie’s full collection, Spells, on weslpress.org!

There's still time to register for tonight's virtual event with @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to celebrate tomorrow's publication of Feedback: Translations from the IrRational by Elliott Sharp! Learn more here: citylights.com/events/ellio... #ElliottSharp #music #reading

Need a last-minute Halloween costume? We got you covered - be the Old Leather Man! Just grab all your leathers and channel your mysteriousness! If you’d like to read more, check out The Old Leather Man by Dan W. DeLuca on weslpress.org! #halloween #oldleatherman #costume

Happy Halloween from WesPress! 🎃 If you’re looking to get into the spooky mood, check out these books 👻: Carved in Stone with photographs by Thomas E. Gilson, Food for the Dead by Michael E. Bell, Graven Images by Allen Ludwig, Songs and Stories of the Ghouls by Alice Notley #halloween #wespress

Please join us on Saturday, November 1 at 2PM for an informal talk and celebration of Wallace Stevens. Peter Gizzi will read a selection of Stevens’s poems and weave some personal anecdotes related to his relationship with Stevens in his life as an artist. #wallacestevens #petergizzi #poetry

Please join us for a discussion with Elliott Sharp and Jonathan Lethem in celebration of Elliott’s new book Feedback: Translations from the IrRational, publishing on November 4th! The event will be virtual on Monday, November 3 at 6PM PST. See you there! #elliottsharp #jonathanlethem #music

Check out Library Journal’s review of Sage Ni'Ja Whitson's Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities! For the full article, go to www.libraryjournal.com/review/trans.... Transtraterrestrial will be available on November 4th, so get your copy on weslpress.org! #dance #sagenijawhitson

A beautiful excerpt from Ruben Quesada’s “I Was a Boy” from Katherine Duarte's chapbook, A las orillas del Río Viejo! To read the full poem, get your copy today at weslpress.org! #poetry #chapbook #rubenquesada

Check out Dobby Gibson’s review of Paper Crown by Heather Christle! To read the full article, go to raintaxi.com/volume-30-nu...! #papercrown #heatherchristle #poetry

Please join us for a reading with Heather Christle at Hollins University on October 30 at 7:30pm! We hope to see you there! #heatherchristle #poetry

Please join Ernest Hebert, author of Darby Chronicles, for a book signing at Barnes and Noble in Keene, NH, on October 25 at 1PM! We’d also like to congratulate him for having the new wing at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College named after him (Ernest Hebert Theater Design Studio)!

Check out Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen’s poem, “English Language Assimilation as a Bite of Sashimi,” featured in Poetry Daily yesterday! To read the poem, go to poems.com/poem/english... #carrieayagadukojanen #poetrydaily #poetry

Take a look at Publishers Weekly review on Lola the Interpreter. For the full article, check out www.publishersweekly.com/9780819501974! #lolatheinterpreter #publishersweekly #poetry

We are proud to share that the CT General Assembly honored Lee Kuckro, Peter Brown, and Don Carter, from the Preservation in Action team, with The Tourism and Cultural Commission Award for their efforts to preserve Wethersfield's historic character and promote awareness of its cultural heritage.

A beautiful excerpt from Lara N. Dotson-Renta “La rubia (The Blonde)” from Katherine Duarte's chapbook, A las orillas del Río Viejo! To read the full poem, get your copy today at weslpress.org! #laradotsonrenta #poetry

What a lovely reading with Juliana Spahr last Thursday! Thank you so much Juliana and Wesleyan visiting poetry professor, Jimin Seo, for such a beautiful night. Check out Juliana’s 2025 poetry collection, Ars Poeticas, on weslpress.org! #julianaspahr #poetry #wesleyan

Flood Editions is turning 25! Please join us for their birthday party on October 24 at 6pm at The Arts Club of Chicago. The evening will feature drinks, appetizers, brief poetry readings, and music. We hope to see you there! #floodeditions #poetry

Check out Pierre Joris's Poetry Project event on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrlFrgN3tE4. The program features poetry, music, & tributes reflecting the scope of Joris’s decades-spanning, boundary-crossing work. #pierrejoris #poetry

Please join Annie Finch on October 25 for a Poetry Witchery Workshop and Halloween Poetry Ritual Performance at the Hudson Valley Writers Center! The workshop will be at 12pm and the performance will be at 3:30pm. We hope to see you there! #anniefinch #poetry #Halloween

A recent review of Elliott Sharp’s reading and concert in Frankfurt by Hans-Jürgen Linke! Check out the full article here: www.fr.de/kultur/musik.... Stay on the look out for Elliott’s book, Feedback, which publishes on November 4th!

Today is the day! Lola the Interpreter is now available. 📖 Be sure to get your copy today at www.weslpress.org/978081950197...

Please join us for a celebration of the late Lyn Hejinian’s poetry works and a reading of Lola the Interpreter on Friday, October 17th at 6:30pm. We hope to see you there.

Join Rachel Trousdale, author of Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem, at the Brattleboro Literary Festival on Saturday, October 18 at 11:30am in the Mitchell Giddings Gallery. We hope to see you there!

A beautiful excerpt from Summer Tate’s “A Letter from My Father, Lost at Sea” from Katherine Duarte's chapbook, A las orillas del Río Viejo! To read the full poem, get your copy today at weslpress.org!

WesPress will be at Pumpkinfest this Saturday from 12-4pm! Be sure to check our booth out at Long Lane Farm! 🍁

Next Thursday, October 16, Juliana Spahr will be at Wesleyan University for a reading! Be sure to join us in the McKelvey Room at 6pm. We hope to see you there!

Join Heather Christle for a craft talk and reading: “What is Language Using Us For?” at Sarah Lawrence College on October 16th. We hope to see you there!

Sol Cabrini and Juliana Spahr will be doing a reading with Poetry Project on October 15 at 8pm. For more information, check out www.poetryproject.org/events/sol-c.... We hope to see you there!

Today is the day! Luis Achondo's book The Sounds of Aguante: Politics of Fandom in South American Football is now available! 📖 Be sure to get your copy today at www.weslpress.org/978081950193...

A beautiful excerpt from Quinn Hayes’ “Imposter” from Katherine Duarte's chapbook, A las orillas del Río Viejo! To read the full poem, get your copy today at weslpress.org!

Heather Christle, author of Paper Crown, will be a special guest at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's Poetry Fest! On Saturday, November 1, Christle will be leading an afternoon workshop at 1:30pm and participating in a reading at 4:15pm. We hope to see you all there!

Benjamin Barson, will be in the Boston area on October 9th! Catch him at The 2025 HONK! Festival at 10:15 am for his talk, “NOLA Culture and Resistance: Then and Now.” Then at 5:30 p.m., you can find him at the MAAH Stone Book Award ceremony where he will be celebrated as a finalist.

This past summer, Preservation in Action won Silver in Photography and Excellence in Graphic Design from the Connecticut Art Directors Club! Congratulations on this deserved recognition! (Photo Credit: Peter Brown)

Join us for a reading with writer and scholar of literature, Juliana Spahr, as a part of our WesPress x Shapiro series. This event will take place in the McKelvey Room at Wesleyan University on Thursday, October 16 at 6 pm. We hope to see you there! #julianaspahr #poetry

Get excited for our two book releases this October: Lyn Hejinian’s Lola the Interpreter and Luis Achondo’s The Sounds of Aguante. You can order your copy at weslpress.org! #lynhejinian #luisachondo #octoberbooks

Fall is here, and so are your favorite books at Wesleyan University Press! 🍁📚 Order your copies today on weslpress.org. Featured 📖: Paper Crown, Poasis II, Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared, The House That Jack Built, A las orillas del Río Viejo, To See Yourself As You Vanish, Lola the Interpreter

Please help us congratulate Shayna M. Silverstein for being announced an honourable mention for the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance Prize for her book Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria! You can purchase Silverstein’s book at weslpress.org!

Please help us congratulate Sumarsam for being announced first place for the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance Prize for his book The In-Between in Javanese Performing Arts! You can purchase Sumarsam’s book at weslpress.org!