Poetry for all the mothers and daughters healing the bloodlines

Belly to the Brutal sings a corrido of the love between mothers and daughters, confronting the learned complicity with patriarchal violence passed down from generation to generation.

A record of visionary experience in the wake of loss

Poet Kerri Webster writes into the vast space left by the deaths of three women: her mother, a mentor, and a friend using a wide array of lyric forms.

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Belly to the Brutal: An Interview with Jennifer Givhan

Introduction JENNIFER GIVHAN is an award-winning Mexican-American poet and novelist whose family has ancestral ties to the Indigenous peoples of New Mexico and Texas. Her books of poetry include Landscape…

Remembering poet Andrea Werblin

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of poet Andrea “Andi” Werblin Reid (November 30, 1965–August 5, 2022) She was the author of Lullaby for One Fist (Wesleyan,…

Artist Appreciation Month

At ‘WesPress’, we are celebrating Artist Appreciation Month! Here is a sampling of relevant books to celebrate visual artists and highlight their work. . 2022 Visual Art Collection Rare Light:…

Recipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society

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Wild Music

Musical representations of wildness in an era of revolutionRecipient of the 2020 Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological SocietyWhat are the uses of...