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Publishing in its current form since 1957, Wesleyan UP focuses on poetry, music, dance, and the arts. See weslpress.org for new poetry!

We were delighted to see Elliott Sharp perform Entanglement Suite with Janene Higgins this week!

You can buy his new book, Feedback, now at weslpress.org!

#elliottsharp #feedback #music
November 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Check out this interview from Alaska Book Week with Alaska poet, Annie Wenstrup! Annie reads from her book The Museum of Unnatural Histories and discusses her work with Nicole Stellon O’Donnell. Watch the full interview here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DghI...!

#alaskapoets #anniewenstrup #poetry
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Join us on Thursday, November 20 6pm at Kelly Writer’s House at the University of Pennsylvania and virtually, for Jack Spicer at 100. This event will be a conversation led by Daniel Benjamin. Be sure to register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#jackspicer #danielbenjamin #kellywritershouse
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Please join us for a special presentation of writer Annie Wenstrup. Wenstrup will read her poetry from her most recent publication, The Museum of Unnatural Histories, starting at 5 pm on Nov. 18. For more info, go here: calendar.utk.edu/event/annie-...!

#anniewenstrup #themuseumofunnaturalhistories
November 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
In celebration of Transgender Awareness Week, we are celebrating recent trans authors.

✨ DEED by torrin a. greathouse is a lyrically innovative exploration of queer sex and desire.

✨ Transtraterrestrial by Sage Ni'Ja Whitson documents Whitson's groundbreaking pieces.

#transgenderawarenessweek
November 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Meet Benjamin Barson, author of Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons! To purchase his latest work, go to weslpress.org!

#benjaminbarson #brassrootsdemocracy
November 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Philadelphia! Come celebrate Kevin Killian and the release of his Padam Padam: Collected Poems, as well as the new and essential collection of Jack Spicer’s letters, Even Strange Ghosts Can Be Shared, that Kevin edited with Daniel Benjamin and Kelly Holt.

#poetry #philadelphia #kevinkillian
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Please join us for an evening with Elliott Sharp on November 14 at 10pm at The Lilypad! Elliott will perform solo electroacoustic music on 8-string guitarbass and electronics. For more information, check out www.lilypadinman.com/home/2025/11....

#elliottsharp #electroacoustic #thelilypad
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Elliott Sharp and Janene Higgins will be presenting Entanglement Suite at Holyoke Media on November 13 at 7:30pm! For more information on the event, go to holyokemedia.org/event/valley...!

#elliottsharp #janenehiggins #music #feedback
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A beautiful excerpt from Eduardo C. Corral’s “In Colorado My Father Scoured and Stacked Dishes” from Katherine Duarte's chapbook, A las orillas del Río Viejo! To read the full poem, get your copy today at weslpress.org!

#poetry #chapbook #eduardocorral
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Please join us for Edgar Garcia's opera, The Zarabanda Variations, at Fordham University in NYC on November 14 6pm! We hope to see you there!

#edgargarcia #fordham #nyc
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Meet Luis Achondo, author of The Sounds of Aguante: Politics of Fandom in South American Football! Purchase his book now at weslpress.org!

#luisachondo #thesoundsofaguante
November 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Please join us for a Colloquium with Elliott Sharp and a performance from Sharp and Janene Higgins of Entanglement Suite on November 12 at Wesleyan University. The colloquium will be at 4:30pm and the performance will be at 8pm all in Ring Family Performing Arts Hall.

#elliottsharp #janenehiggins
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Please join us for a reading with Heather Christle, Rachel Trousdale, and Martha Ronk hosted by Grolier Poetry Book Shop on November 13 at 7pm in person and on Zoom!

In person sign up: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/a7uq2...

Virtual sign up: lp.constantcontactpages.com/ev/reg/7ttdx...
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
At SEM in October, Shayna M. Silverstein and her book, Fraught Balance: The Embodied Politics of Dabke Dance Music in Syria, won the Joann Kealiinohomoku Prize and was named as an Honorable Mention for the Ruth Stone Prize.

Congratulations Shayna!

#fraughtbalance #ethnomusicology #bookaward
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Sage Ni'Ja Whitson's Transtraterrestrial: Dark Matter and Black Divinities is now available! Be sure to get your copy today at www.weslpress.org/978081950199...

#sagenijawhitson #dance #transtraterrestrial
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today is the day! Feedback: Translations from the IrRational by Elliott Sharp is now available! 📖 Be sure to get your copy today at www.weslpress.org/978081950205...

#elliottsharp #music #feedback
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Wishing a huge congratulations to Isabelle Baafi whose UK edition of Chaotic Good won the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection! Get your copy today on weslpress.org!

#poetry #jerwoodprize #isabellebaafi
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Please join Remica Bingham-Risher for a reading with Lauren Espinoza and Lauren Licona at ASU on November 7 at 7pm. We hope to see you there!

#poetry #remicabinghamrisher #arizonastate
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A beautiful excerpt from Sean Forbes’s “I’m there but for the taking” from Katherine Duarte's chapbook, A las orillas del Río Viejo! To read the full poem, get your copy today at weslpress.org!

#poetry #chapbook #seanforbes
November 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Boise State Public Radio featured “Samhain" by Annie Finch on their program Something I Heard from October 30th! Check it out here: www.boisestatepublicradio.org/show/somethi...

You can purchase a copy of Annie’s full collection, Spells, on weslpress.org!
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There's still time to register for tonight's virtual event with @citylightsbooks.bsky.social to celebrate tomorrow's publication of Feedback: Translations from the IrRational by Elliott Sharp!

Learn more here: citylights.com/events/ellio...

#ElliottSharp #music #reading
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Need a last-minute Halloween costume? We got you covered - be the Old Leather Man! Just grab all your leathers and channel your mysteriousness!

If you’d like to read more, check out The Old Leather Man by Dan W. DeLuca on weslpress.org!

#halloween #oldleatherman #costume
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Happy Halloween from WesPress! 🎃 If you’re looking to get into the spooky mood, check out these books 👻: Carved in Stone with photographs by Thomas E. Gilson, Food for the Dead by Michael E. Bell, Graven Images by Allen Ludwig, Songs and Stories of the Ghouls by Alice Notley

#halloween #wespress
October 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Please join us on Saturday, November 1 at 2PM for an informal talk and celebration of Wallace Stevens. Peter Gizzi will read a selection of Stevens’s poems and weave some personal anecdotes related to his relationship with Stevens in his life as an artist.

#wallacestevens #petergizzi #poetry
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM