Yndia Lorick-Wilmot and Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, editors of Tengo Sed: An Anthology of Works Celebrating Black Voices, Identities, and Personhood, answer questions about their new book. Q: Why did you decide […]
Q&A with the author of TENGO SED
Category: poetry
2026 Italian American Heritage Month Reading List
It’s Italian American Heritage Month! Get to know our Italian and cultural studies journals to stay up to date on new research, book reviews, creative work, and more. Plus, check […]
2026 Polish American Heritage Month Reading List
Happy Polish American Heritage Month! Join us in celebrating the month once again with a reading list of books and journal articles from Polish American Studies, The Polish Review, and Journal of American […]
National Poetry/Literature Month Reading List
Please enjoy this curated reading list that highlights some of our best and brightest poetry and literary published works. The Keloids We Heal: Trauma, Spirituality, and Black Modernity in Literature […]
April Is Jazz Appreciation Month AND Poetry Month: Jazz and Culture Feature
Did you know that Jazz and Culture publishes poetry, in addition to cutting-edge research on jazz from multiple perspectives? Founded on the principle that both scholars and musicians offer invaluable […]
Q&A with Dana Greene, author of JANE KENYON
Dana Greene, author of Jane Kenyon: The Making of a Poet, answers questions on her new book. Q: Why did you decide to write this book? I like Kenyon’s poetry. […]
National Poetry Month Reading List
Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month is a special occasion that celebrates poets’ integral roles in our culture and that highlights that poetry […]
Marian Wilson Kimber Awarded Sight and Sound Subvention Award
Marian Wilson Kimber’s book The Elocutionists reclaimed a forgotten performance genre. From the mid-1800s to the 1940s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to entertain audiences, in particular women’s […]
UIP Author Lorna Goodison Awarded 2018 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry
We’re pleased to announce that Lorna Goodison, the author of Controlling the Silver, Turn Thanks, and To Us All Flowers Are Roses, has been awarded the 2018 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize in Poetry. […]
RIP Michael S. Harper
Michael S. Harper had a claim on the title of poet-historian, for he drew on the vast histories of African Americans as well as the United States to create works […]
Of cats and bats, mostly cats
It is seldom mentioned that cats are one of the great lawyers of the animal kingdom. Say “no” to a cat and it will look at you with an expression that […]
Win a copy of Fe-Lines: French Cat Poems through the Ages
One of the wonderful things about independent bookstores is the opportunity for discovery. Is there a better feeling than walking among rows of texts and spying that one spine that calls […]