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Lisa Barg’s “Queer Arrangements” won the 2024 Philip Brett Award, sponsored by the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (AMS). The award was inaugurated in 1997 for exceptional musicological work in the field of LGBTQ+ studies. #Jazz #QueerMusic #PhilipBrett

“When a manuscript speaks to me as having good potential for our list, it is always the whole manuscript that speaks—its energy, a sense of aliveness.” Editor in chief Suzanna Tamminen of weslpress discusses her role as curator and reader: at.pw.org/AERTamminen

Interested in learning more about the role of an editor? Wesleyan University Press's director and editor-in-chief Suzanna Tamminen wrote about what the process is like for her in this article for Poets & Writers: pw.org/agents_editors… #Poets #Poetry #Publishing

Today’s Featured Poem: “Death” by Rae Armantrout (Rae Armantrout), from Go Figure, published by Wesleyan University Press (weslpress). Read here: poems.com/poem/death/

“I still use dancemaking as a way to understand what I just can’t quite grasp." —Liz Lerman, Dance Magazine Awardee Tnx Nancy Wozny dancemagazine.com/dance-magazine…

Today's Featured Poem is from torrin a. greathouse's DEED. torrin a. greathouse Poetry Daily

Jazz’s Historical Agenda as Protest Music in the Stellar Brassroots Democracy ➡️ tinyurl.com/BrssDmcrcy Benjamin Barson's excellent Brassroots Democracy details the beautiful and bleak ways that jazz music created the soundtrack of an emancipatory movement that lasts to this

"Friend I need your hand every morning but anger and beauty and hope these roses make one rose." #TodaysPoem #poetry Friend by Jean Valentine from Door in the Mountain (2004 weslpress) tinyurl.com/krrxyb25

Today's African Studies Association author photo is of weslpress author Andrew Eisenberg with his book, Sounds of Other Shores. #asa2024 #Africa

New #Poetry: Read the featured Excerpt #Poem of the Month for January 2025, “Further Thought” from #GoFigure by #RaeArmantrout, along with a few words from the poet. @WeslPress #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers phillychapbookreview.org/book-excerpt-f…

Now available: SHE IS THE EARTH by Ali Cobby Eckermann and THREE ROANS IN THE SHALLOWS, ONE OF THEM BLUE: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan! Order from Flood Editions, weslpress, or your local independent bookseller floodeditions.com

So thrilled to announce that my second collection, DEED (weslpress), has been selected as the winner of the ALA's Rainbow RT Stonewall Book Awards Barbara Gittings Prize! I’ve dreamed for years of seeing my work receive this award and it means the world that the panel chose DEED

Penned during exile in Southern Russia, the Voronezh Notebooks are among Osip Mandelstam’s most significant works. Discover three poems from this collection in Zen monk John High and UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE founder Matyei Yankelevich's translation: tinyurl.com/26ukpzsw weslpress

Our The Louisville Conference book exhibit is underway & already we've met several authors. Delphine Munoz below with her @BrillPublishing book, Caryl Phillips's Genealogies & weslpress editors Lauri Scheyer and David Grundy with The Selected Poems of Calvin C. Hernton. #Literature

So excited to announce that I am now represented for bookings by Blue Flower Arts!!!! Thrilled to join their incredible roster!

Learn about Mura Dehn, the dancer who created The Spirit Moves, the doc about dancing at the Savoy. The best description of Dehn turned up in Eiko Otake 's letter in Dance Histories weslpress . Essential dance history #HarlemRenaissance Dance Studies Association

“When they took you out, / you would push the buttons of their jeans / with your thumb // and the stars stretched in Orion’s belt / like the three mysteries at the start of time.” —Brenda Hillman, “Orion’s Belt” weslpress

Finished reading Rae Armantrout's "Versed: Poems." amzn.to/4gwAoFP 📖🖊️ This was super good, solid end to end. One of her better #poetry collections. #books #reading #poems weslpress #Booktwitter #PoetryTwitter

We'll miss seeing ACLA attendees in person this year, but the link below will give you access to discounts on books from ACMRS Press Duke University Press LSU Press Penn Press Polity Rutgers University Press Stanford Press University of Texas Press and weslpress #ACLA2025 scholarschoice.com/Portals/schola…

Great breakfast spread next to our The Society of Early Americanists exhibit! Enjoy food while perusing our exhibit of books from UChicagoPress Eerdmans Publishing @UGAPress UNC Press PSU Press Penn Press weslpress & more... #SEA2025