Here's the link to the recording of our Q&A on France 24 about President Trump's increasing insults and threats against reporters and the news media: f24.my/BZfj

Congrats, Danielle! "The Art of Pity" asks us to consider, in a most fundamental sense, why literature matters--something as relevant today as it ever has been (cc @ksupress.bsky.social)

Ok, this is neat. You can reserve a loan now from the Carnegie Library. acl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S2...

Now through 12/31/25, Kent State University Press is having a 60th anniversary sale. Enter the code KSUP60 at checkout and receive 40% off plus free shipping. They have books on Tolkien, C.S Lewis, and the Inklings. Obviously, my book is there, but there's also FIVE by Verlyn Flieger. #tolkien

We’re wrapping up #UPWeek with the announcement of our big sale—$5 books at our in-person event, and 40% off (plus free shipping) with code KSUP60 on our site. Hope to see you November 19 and 20: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/a...

University Press Week Starts Today! Some events and coverage below. @aupresses.bsky.social

Happy University Press Week! Join us in celebrating how authors, university press publishing professionals & so many others #TeamUP to advance knowledge. Explore this @bookshop.org collection of university press books to find your next thought-provoking read: https://bit.ly/4nhTQcc#TeamUP #ReadUP

“I want a compass. / I need deliverance. Good god, take me” — Oliver Baez Bendorf (@oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in The Spectral Wilderness by Oliver Baez Bendorf, published by Kent State University Press (@ksupress.bsky.social), 2015. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Great seeing KSUP author @terryallenbelew.bsky.social (pictured here with @tottencs.bsky.social, David Hassler, and Alison Hawthorne Deming) at last night’s Wick Poetry Center event in Kent! Belew’s book “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize—is available now.

Happy pub day to Rebecca Jumper Matheson! Her book “Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps” is new in our series with the Costume Society of America: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/artisan...

The PDCA First Monday Forum looks at the struggle to save America's voices to the world via USAGM broadcasting (including the Voice of America, RFE/RL and Radio Free Asia). The main speakers are two ex VOA White House bureau chiefs: me & Patsy Widakuswara. publicdiplomacy.org/news_mana... #SaveVOA

Final days of the sale!

Kent State University Press turns 60 this year, and we’re grateful to our authors and friends who’ve joined in the celebration with praise for our work—including Kathleen M. Fernandez, @newsguy.bsky.social, David Hassler, and Tom Batiuk. More here: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/about/six-de...

Here's our hour-long discussion examining the current dissent in America. www.youtube.com/live/RmikNRrv...

From the New York Post to the Journal of Southern History, KSUP titles continue to help shape conversations around the region and the world. Congrats to all the authors whose books are featured in this month’s stack. Read more at the new roundup of news and reviews.

It's been too long, Bluesky friends. We're back. We received 10,000+ books this week. Feel free to stop in & check em out

Come find KSUP books—and @tottencs.bsky.social, our director—at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival! If you’re not in Youngstown, you can still save 30% on titles from the exhibit (with free shipping, through 10/31). Use code LYF30 at checkout: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com

More good news from the journal “Civil War History,” which is pleased to welcome Matthew Fox-Amato to its staff as book review editor. He joins editor @jimdowns.bsky.social and associate editor Crystal N. Feimster.

Thrilled that “Oil Courses” by Carolyn Williams-Noren has been selected as the winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize! We’ll publish Carolyn’s book next fall with our partners at the Wick Poetry Center.

With the Browns and Steelers facing off this Sunday, it seems like a good time to ponder the relationship between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. @chrisbriem.bsky.social, author of our upcoming book “Beyond Steel,” argues it’s worth approaching the cities not as rivals but as Rust Belt partners.

Big news! Marcy S. Sacks has received the John T. Hubbell Prize for her article “‘I Shall Forward to You My Contraband’: Tracing Coerced Wartime Black Movement North through an Incomplete Archive." KSUP annually presents the award for the best article published in the journal "Civil War History."

New month, new chances to see KSUP authors! Our calendar’s been updated with festivals including @lityoungstown.bsky.social and the Buckeye Book Fair, plus appearances by Mary Noé, Charles Malone, Rebecca Jumper Matheson, and more: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/b...

Introducing the new MNG Bookshop! Our new site houses an extensive collection of academic, professional, and society publications in one space. We have tailored our bookshop to meet the needs of our audience, incorporating features that matter most. www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...

It was so lovely to chat with @llassabe.bsky.social! University presses are creative, resilient, mission-driven, and just one of my favorite things to talk about.

Excited to hear Kent State University Press’s director, @tottencs.bsky.social, on the American Campus Podcast, where she talks with @llassabe.bsky.social about the meaning and value of university-press publishing.

The baseball season may be winding down, but “Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves” is still going strong. Congrats to Martin Bush, whose book is praised as “assiduously researched and smartly written” in the New York Post! (Paywalled link below.) nypost.com/2025/09/20/s...

We’re so pleased that the launch for Rebecca Jumper Matheson‘s book “Artisans and Designers” will be included as part of this year’s celebration of University Press Week. Details about this free online event (to be held November 12) at the link: upweek.up.hcommons.org/events/event...

Happy pub day to Galeeb Kachra, whose book “Peace and Security in Kenya: The USAID Approach” is now available: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/peace-a...

KSUP author Jim Hollock on writing: “I think the difficulty is sticking to it. .... But it’s one of the better things I’ve ever done, because I knew, even if no one else does, I know the effort that went into it, and it is very satisfying when you can be finished with something.”

New on the blog: Our celebration of KSUP’s 60th birthday continues with a look at one standout title from our series in True Crime History—James G. Hollock‘s “Born to Lose.” kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/t...

We’re in the business of keeping independent bookstores in business 🤍📚

We’re kicking off fall with another big roundup of news and reviews. Congrats to all our authors, and big thanks to the media and literary partners who’ve helped place KSUP’s books in global conversations: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/08/e...

Don't miss our free virtual events Sep 8-10 with Dr. Eve. L. Ewing & Dr. Imani Perry, Franny Choi & Danez Smith, and Kiese Laymon & Deesha Philyaw. Register for one or all events for free! www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-inkub...

That’s @chrisbriem.bsky.social, author of our upcoming “Beyond Steel,” profiled in Pittsburgh Magazine! “If you want to talk about where Pittsburgh’s been or where Pittsburgh’s going, Christopher Briem is the guy to call." www.pittsburghmagazine.com/profile-chri...

Happy pub day to @terryallenbelew.bsky.social, whose book “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, published with the Wick Poetry Center—is now available: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/the-dee...

This Labor Day Weekend, take a Rust Belt Roadtrip with @gmoult.bsky.social, who recommends three books about Cleveland’s extraordinary sacred architecture from Kent State University Press: kentstatebooks.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/m...

We're currently accepting articles for our 2026 issue, The Regenerative Rust Belt. Send us your articles and write with any questions. Also, please share the CFP far and wide! @katietrostel.bsky.social @valentinolzullo.bsky.social #academicsky #booksky

In a new feature for the blog, we’re highlighting backlist titles that continue to resonate with issues in the region, nation, and world. First up: the series Voices of Diversity, which—in a mission that remains central to KSUP's work—helped celebrate the Cleveland area’s rich ethnic heritage.

I’ve been around Pittsburgh for a while (though I didn’t exist in '62) but had never heard of this early-60s plan to basically roof Panther Hollow and turn it into a nuclear-powered research hub. Thankfully we have @chrisbriem.bsky.social to unearth such moments www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-h...

Grateful to @publicsource.org for sharing a first look at @chrisbriem.bsky.social's book “Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation.”

New on the blog: Read an excerpt from Rebecca Jumper Matheson’s “Artisans and Designers,” coming in November in our series with Costume Society of America.

The lineup for the Buckeye Book Fair has been released, and we’re thrilled that KSUP authors Deborah Fleming (author of “Ghosts of an Old Forest”) and Charles Malone (coeditor of “Light Enters the Grove”) will be there. Join the bookish fun on November 1 in Wooster!

Larry Gara was one of a kind.

Honored to hear @vickmickunas.bsky.social re-share his compelling interview with the late Larry Gara, coeditor of KSUP's "A Few Small Candles: War Resisters of World War II Tell Their Stories." It's part of the "Best of the Book Nook" feature from WYSO.

To mark KSU Press’s 60th birthday, we’re sharing a collection of celebratory resources on our website—including a history of the press, praise for our work from authors and friends, and more. Thanks for your support, and enjoy! www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/about/six-de...

We just registered for Lit Youngstown this morning! Early bird registration through September 15 🐦📚💙 @riverriverbooks.bsky.social author LAUREN CAMP is a featured speaker, and we can’t wait! 👇

Great hearing “Light Enters the Grove,” published with the Wick Poetry Center, featured on the Page Count podcast from the Cleveland Public Library: cpl.org/podcast-epis...

Grateful to @postindustrial.bsky.social for this short piece anticipating @chrisbriem.bsky.social's book "Beyond Steel: Pittsburgh and the Economics of Transformation," coming from KSUP this winter. postindustrial.com/stories/post...

ANNOUNCEMENT: I have signed an advance contract for my book-in-progress, titled "Shakespeare's Sentient Trees: Vegetal Embodiment and Temporality," with the Medieval & Renaissance Literary Series at Kent State University Press. I'm very excited!!! Will post more updates as it comes together!

Our celebration of KSUP’s tradition of publishing excellence continues with select back issues of “Civil War History.”