Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an American master

Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating will to truth everywhere on display.

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An innovative suite of poems for the drone age

The Blue Split Compartments is a complex and powerful sequence of lyric poems exploring the relationships between military drone operators and their victims.

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Honoring Sherley Anne Williams

As we commemorate Juneteenth, we want to draw attention to the late Sherley Anne Williams (1944–1999). Williams was a multi-talented Black American woman—a poet, novelist, and playwright, as well as…

Remembering David K. Leff

We at ‘WesPress’ would like to pay our tribute to David K. Leff (1955–2022), an award-winning essayist, Pushcart Prize nominated poet, and former deputy commissioner of the Connecticut Department of…

2022 Mark Twain Award: Gerald Vizenor

Congratulations Gerald Vizenor! The Society of Midwestern Literature’s Corporate Board has awarded Vizenor with the 2022 Mark Twain Award for Distinguished Contributions to Midwestern Literature. The Society has given this…

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...