Wesleyan University Press

25/01/2025

Camille T. Dungy reads "What I Know I Cannot Say" at Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2018: Poems of Provocation & Witness, April 19, 2018 in Washington, DC.

23/01/2025

23/01/2025

Join us tomorrow January 24 at 7pm for an evening of music and conversation exploring the legacies of Haitian music, language, and politics in New Orleans!

Benjamin Barson joined by Leyla McCalla, and Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots.

Bruce Sunpie Barnes
Leyla McCalla
Ben Barson
Tulane University School of Liberal Arts
Neighborhood Story Project
Historic BK House & Gardens
Nous Foundation

17/01/2025

“My poems are lived. The ‘I’ belongs to all of us. I mean, Peter Gizzi is there, but he’s just a piece of it, because that pronoun that we share is wound and sprung with so much historical consciousness. So many affiliated voices speak through it when we use it. Language is bigger than me, it’s older than me. It doesn’t live in me – we all live in it.” —Peter Gizzi

The American writer won the prestigious prize for Fierce Elegy, a collection informed by the deaths of his family members. He explains why poetry is like friendship – and why he loves small words

15/01/2025

Mark your calendars!

Submissions to our renowned poetry series will open next month. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to submit to Wesleyan University Press and be a part of an incredible list of .

Our submission fee is $25 per manuscript, but if you require a discounted fee or free submission due to financial constraints, or have any questions, please contact Assistant Editor Oliver Egger at [email protected].

Find out more about our requirements here: https://www.weslpress.org/submission-guidelines/

15/01/2025

https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-poetry-september-2023
In honor of Peter Gizzi's being awarded the 2024 T. S. Eliot Prize for his collection FIERCE ELEGY (Wesleyan University Press), here's a look back at Amanda Holmes Duffy's piece praising the work.

15/01/2025

Rain Taxi is proud to present an installment in our 2021 Virtual Event Series: In celebration of Peter Gizzi’s new collection of poems, Now It’s Dark (Wesley...

15/01/2025

14/01/2025

Congratulations to Peter Gizzi, winner of the TS Eliot Prize for his UK edition of ‘Fierce Elegy’ (Penguin). The book is available in the US through Wesleyan.

“Chair of judges, the British poet Mimi Khalvati, described Gizzi’s collection as ‘infinitely sad, yet resolute, and so alive in body and spirit’.”
Read more here:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/13/transcendental-beauty-of-peter-gizzis-fierce-elegy-wins-him-ts-eliot-poetry-prize

Peter Gizzi T. S. Eliot Prize Penguin Random House

10/01/2025

Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · 01/06/2025 · 11m

10/01/2025

Wesleyan University Press author ’s “Soon and Wholly” was chosen for The ’s 2024 Staff Picks, along with other incredible books.

“These stunningly crafted, fable-like poems give shape to the book’s central preoccupation—meaning itself.” —Shoshana Olidort, Poetry Foundation

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10/01/2025

Wesleyan University Press author Idra Novey's "Soon and Wholly" was chosen for The Foundation & Poetry Magazine’s 2024 Staff Picks, along with other incredible books.

“These stunningly crafted, fable-like poems give shape to the book's central preoccupation—meaning itself.” —Shoshana Olidort, Poetry Foundation

Find the link to the full list in our comments.

08/01/2025

🎙️ Benjamin Landry's VerseCurious podcast reviewed Annie Wenstrup's "The Museum of Unnatural Histories," calling it "the perfect countermeasure to what has become, in effect, antisocial media."

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02/01/2025

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