AWP 2024 — Kansas City, MO
February 1, 2024
Off-site reading @ Bliss Books & Wine Friday, 2/9, 7PM 3502 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO 64111 Join us for a delightful evening of poetry and good cheer! Featuring Kazim… READ MORE
Author: selliott
Irena Klepfisz: Seeking a moral compass
October 20, 2023
A Jewish poet responds to the current Israeli-Palestinian crisis When I was asked to contribute something to the WUP blog in response to the present war in Israel and Gaza,… READ MORE
Minnie Bruce Pratt
July 3, 2023
September 12, 1946–July 2, 2023 We are saddened to learn of the passing of Minnie Bruce Pratt—poet, essayist, organizer, and activist. You can read more about Pratt in this moving… READ MORE
Summer Sale! 40% Off All Books!
July 1, 2023
Sale runs July 1st through September 8th. With the summer season upon us, a book is what you might need to escape from the heat. To coincide with the hot… READ MORE
Juneteenth
June 19, 2023
by Marilyn Nelson With her shiny black-patent sandalsand her Japanese parasol,and wearing a brand-new Juneteenth dress, Johnnie’s a living doll. Juneteenth: when the Negro telegraph reached the last sad slave… READ MORE
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 19, 2023
“On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Jewish insurgents inside the ghetto resisted these efforts…. READ MORE
A.B. Spellman, Between the Night and Its Music
April 13, 2023
Wesleyan University Press is pleased to announce that we will publish Between the Night and Its Music: New and Selected Poems, by A.B. Spellman (edited and with an introduction by… READ MORE
Wesleyan UP at AWP 2023
March 7, 2023
Please visit us at Booth #1002! **Scroll down for our signing schedule We are offering a conference discount of 40% off all of our poetry and literature titles. Please use… READ MORE
Introducing Life Lines: Poets in Conversation
September 14, 2022
A podcast produced by Wesleyan University Press with a grant from the NEA. Dropping on September 20th. In the first season of Life Lines: Poets in Conversation, hosted by Pushcart-prize nominated… READ MORE
Remembering poet Andrea Werblin
August 7, 2022
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,… READ MORE