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! blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod... #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.

Congrats to our member presses & their authors on this list: @uakronpress.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @ugapress.bsky.social @univnebpress.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @uwiscpress.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social & Texas Review Press!

Stunned and absolutely thrilled that Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (@uakronpress.bsky.social, 2024) is a finalist for the LGBTQ+ Poetry Lammy (@lambdaliterary.bsky.social)! Congrats to all the finalists in all categories 🏳️‍🌈

Take advantage of the #taxfreeweekend in #Ohio over the next two weeks by stopping by Northside Marketplace to score some great books and goodies! #books #booksbooksbooks #sale #press #ohiohistory #poetry #bicentennial #akron

📣 We are thrilled to share that Nonbinary Bird of Paradise by @emdashphillips.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the 2025 Lammy Awards! 🥳 #poetry #poetrycommunity #lgbtqia #nonbinary #poets

@marybid.bsky.social isn't just our poetry series editor extraordinaire, she's also a talented poet and #fiction writer! Join us in congratulating her on the publication of The Girl With the Black Lipstick! blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-gi... #flashfiction #ordernow #90sVibesOnly #newrelease

Looking to score a copy of #Akron at 200? Join us tonight at the Akron-Summit County Public Library for the Forgotten #History Forum, with UA Press director Dr. Jon Miller. Books are $35 before tax! Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/forgotten-... #Ohio #bicentennial #culture #preorder #anthology

Huge gratitude to Leigh Cuen and @southrevbooks for this wonderful review of Lady Smith by @allofthejess! southernreviewofbooks.com/2025/07/01/l... #poetry #review #poetrycommunity

Wow! Last night was one for the books. Huge thank yous to @allofthejess, @sarahgreenmusic, and @jenmoore05 for a truly stunning night of #poetry! And to @biercelibrary for providing a beautiful location and much-needed refreshments. We are already looking forward to planning another #reading! 🤩

📣 ATTENTION 📣 Submissions to the 2025 Akron Poetry Prize close TODAY! Open to all poets writing in English Prize = $1,500 & publication Final judge is Eduardo C Corral Manuscripts must be a total length of 48-90 pages Submit here: theuniversityofakronpress.submittable.com/submit/32369...

REMINDER: The 2025 Akron Poetry Prize closes in five days! Send us those manuscripts! theuniversityofakronpress.submittable.com/submit

Normally, we share reviews of our books. Today, we're sharing a review by UA Press author Ryan Teitman! There is much to love in this brilliant review. 👇 Stay tuned for his forthcoming collection Paperweight in spring 2026! 💥 lareviewofbooks.org/article/bear...

The 2025 Akron Poetry Prize closes in 17 days. Don't delay, submit your manuscript via Submittable now! 👇 theuniversityofakronpress.submittable.com/submit/32369... #poetry #poetrycommunity #submissionopportunity #prize #share

Hey Poetry Writers! Let's talk chapbooks with the one and only @marybid! #poetry #poetrycommunity #amwritingpoetry #poetrychapbook #onlinepoetryworkshop @NEOMFA @uakronpress.bsky.social www.lityoungstown.org/post/next-st...

You have 30 days left to submit your #poetry manuscript to the annual Akron Poetry Prize! The winner receives $1500 and publication of their manuscript. This year's judge is the brilliant Eduardo C. Corral! Submissions close June 15, 2025. theuniversityofakronpress.submittable.com/submit

We are thrilled to welcome award-winning writer Abayo Animashaun as this week's workshop leader for our self-care series in collaboration with Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Centre! 🤩 Seats are limited. Register now 👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/the-art-of...

Many thanks to Robin Myers for this new review of Something About Living by @lenatuffaha! ✨ www.poetrynw.org/every-empire... #review #poetry #poetrycommunity #poets #bookreview

and the birds won’t stop singing. Sarah Green, from The Deletions (@uakronpress.bsky.social)

There is one week left to register for Sarah Freligh's upcoming workshop "Notions of Home." Only a few seats remain! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/notions-of... #writers #akron #selfcare #workshop #writercommunity #creativewriting

Join us THIS Saturday inside The Well CDC, in partnership with Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Centre, for "The Business of Self-Care for Writers: A Workshop on Goals and Artistic Growth" led by @marybid.bsky.social! FOUR spots remain, so learn more & register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-busine...

Many thanks to Ellen Chenoweth for this stunning review of Artists on Creative Administration in Dance Chronicle! Read the full review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #creativeadministration #dance #danceadministration #artsadministration #artists

Akron Poetry Prize @UAkronPress.bsky.social (Poetry; pays) opened to fee-based poetry submissions. #amwriting

8. Pacific Paradise Herbal Tea & Nonbinary Bird of Paradise by Emilia Phillips (@emdashphillips.bsky.social) from @uakronpress.bsky.social

Submissions to the 2025 Akron Poetry Prize are now open! 🥳 The winning #poet receives $1500 and publication of their #manuscript. The 2025 final judge is Eduardo C. Corral! Submit: theuniversityofakronpress.submittable.com/submit/32369... #contest #prize #poetry #poetrycommunity #share

The University of Akron Press, in partnership w/Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Centre, is excited to announce Finding a Shell: How to Care for Yourself as a Writer, a free four-part workshop series on self-care for writers, beginning Saturday, 4/26. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/o/elizabeths...

Happy publication day to these two stunning poetry collections! Use code POETRYLIVES to take 30% off jacket price now until the end of April! blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod... #poetry #poetrycommunity #publicationday #newrelease #writerscommunity #divorce #separation #grief

Submissions to the annual Akron Poetry Prize open in 8 days! www.uakron.edu/uapress/akro... #poetry #poetrycommunity #prize #competition #opportunity #poets #submissionopportunity #writerscommunity #share

Happy National Poetry Month! Please enjoy 30% off all our poetry collections with code POETRYLIVES. Note: discount code does not work on mobile devices. Browse our poetry catalog here: blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod... #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylives #akron #universitypress #smallpress

Ready those #poetry manuscripts! The Akron Poetry Prize opens April 15, and the winning poet receives $1500 and publication of their manuscript! Full details here: www.uakron.edu/uapress/akro... #contest #prize #poetrycommunity #poets

Join us at the #AWP25 #bookfair at Table #1022 for author signings featuring Tyler Mills, @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social, and Jess Smith! #LA #losangeles #writers #poets #poetry #poetrycommunity #newreleases

The 2025 Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference and #bookfair is right around the corner! If you're in Los Angeles, come say hi and check out our new and forthcoming poetry collections. #poetry #poetrycommunity #sale #booksbooksbooks #conference #awp2025

NEW BOOK ALERT! The Pioneer Route and Electric Railways of Northeast Ohio presents #masstransit in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban United States from a business history perspective. Preorder coming soon! #transportation #ohiohistory #electricrailways #electrictraction #neohio #train

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Join us in shouting congratulations to our poetry series editor, @marybid.bsky.social, on her forthcoming novella-in-flash, The Girl with the Black Lipstick! 🔥

Huge congratulations to Lena Khalaf Tuffaha for Something About Living being chosen as a 2025 Notable Book by the American Library Association! ✨ #poetry #notablebook #americanlibraryassociation #poetrycommunity rusaupdate.org/2025/01/2025...

Happy Valentine's Day! Celebrate today by preordering Jess Smith's Lady Smith and @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social's The Deletions. 😏 blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod... Preorder today with code "UAP30" and save 30%! #poetry #poetrycommunity #relationships #womenauthors #universitypress #poets

Learn about the history and archaeology of Native Americans in Northeast Ohio at this author talk for Native Americans of the Cuyahoga Valley at the Akron-Summit County Public Library this Sunday, 2/16, 2-3:30pm. #neohio #history #archaeology #nativeamericanhistory #localhistory #universitypress

NEW POETRY COLLECTION ALERT ☄️ The University of Akron Press is thrilled to announce that it will publish the poetry collection Cryptid by Annah Browning as part of the Akron Series in Poetry. More here: www.uakron.edu/uapress/abou... #newcollection #poetry #cryptids #ufos #ladysasquatch #alien

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New poems from @sarahgreenpoet.bsky.social up at @atlengthmag.bsky.social, which are part of her forthcoming collection, The Deletions! 🔥 Check out her work: atlengthmag.com/the-afterlife/ #poetry #poetrycommunity #newcollection #poetrylovers #womenauthors #poem #tarot #fertility #relationships

"Jenny Sadre-Orafai’s lovely, twisting book of prose #poems treats the natural world as the ultimate hand of fate, both life-sustaining and life-erasing by unpredictable turns." Many thanks to Maria Zoccola for including Dear Outsiders on this list! electricliterature.com/9-poetry-col...

Gratitude to Kaveh Akbar & The New Yorker for covering Something About Living. "There’s a moment in it where she says, 'I have no idea what hope is, but our people have taught me a million ways to love,' and that love feels like the center of the atom here." www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...

Huge thanks to Carolee Bennett for covering A Mollusk Without a Shell, an inviting collection of essays on #self-care for #writers, edited by @marybid.bsky.social & Julie Brooks Barbour on Good Universe Next Door. 🤩 #essays #poetrycommunity #womenwriters #writingprompts #writingprocess

Hit those 2025 reading goals with a book of poetry! ✨ Take 30% off now until the end of January with code "30Malak." Discount code does not work on mobile devices (sorry!). Order: blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/prod... #poetry #poetrycommunity #womenauthors #magic #myth #divination #Lineage #newedition