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.”

Mark your calendars for 10/22! The OPA is happy to serve as a Community Partner with Gramercy Books Bexley for this free event featuring all three of Ohio's Poets Laureate (so far): Amit Majmudar, Dave Lucas, and Kari Gunter-Seymour. Tickets and more: www.gramercybooksbexley.com/event/evenin...

Visit Larchmere Blvd and Loganberry Bookstore when in Cleveland

"The birthplace of Superman is having, well, a super year." It's great seeing Cleveland in national headlines—and if you're interested in learning more about the city, KSUP has plenty of books worth reading, including John Grabowski and Lauren Pacini's "Cleveland A to Z."

Congrats to the many KSUP authors who appear in our July roundup of news and reviews, including @newsguy.bsky.social, @chrisbriem.bsky.social, @alas-not-me.bsky.social, and more. Another big month for books!

More podcast news! At @rounderspodcast.bsky.social, KSUP author Martin Bush talks “Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves.” open.spotify.com/episode/0UWb...

What can Cleveland and Pittsburgh learn from each other? What would the two cities gain by teaming up as Cleveburgh? In a new podcast, @chrisbriem.bsky.social—author of our forthcoming book “Beyond Steel”—considers the relationship between two iconic Rust Belt cities: megaphone.link/CC6470937745

Next stop on the Cleveland bookstore tour: Mac's Backs Books, another indie where we were excited to find KSUP titles on the shelves. Visit them today!

Behind the White House Curtain featured in the Kent State University Press Fall/Winter 2025 catalog.

Our fall catalog is here! Join us to: 📕anticipate new books (including titles by @chrisbriem.bsky.social and @terryallenbelew.bsky.social); 📕look back on 60 years of KSUP history; and 📕celebrate recent successes by @newsguy.bsky.social and others. www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/wp-content/u...

Great seeing so many recent titles from Kent State University Press at Loganberry Books in Cleveland! Big thanks to them—and to independent bookstores everywhere—for their support.

We’re preparing to unveil our fall catalog, which is a nice excuse to look back on select KSUP catalogs from the past sixty years!

VOA: To Be, or Not To Be issuu.com/fcchk/docs/t... #SaveVOA

At Cleveland Magazine, @nickoloffoff.bsky.social has a new list of “81 Essential Cleveland Novels”—including one from KSUP! “The Coming of Fabrizze,” by Raymond DeCapite, was originally published in 1960 and tells the story of an Italian immigrant in the 1920s: clevelandmagazine.com/entertainmen...

Pleased to share a new Q&A with @terryallenbelew.bsky.social, author of “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—selected as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.

Even better in print! Grateful for the opportunity to highlight KSUP books in the July issue of Harper’s (which is celebrating its 175th birthday the same year we’re celebrating our 60th). Look for it on newsstands now.

“You do not linger out loud. / You are not in my mouth.”  — Farnaz Fatemi . . . This poem appeared in Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi, published by The Kent State University Press, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Cover reveal! Rebecca Jumper Matheson's book "Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps" is coming in November in our series with the Costume Society of America: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/artisan...