Publishing in its current form since 1957, Wesleyan University Press has lived through many transitions while continuing to thrive. It has published an internationally renowned poetry series since its inception, releasing more than 250 titles and collecting four Pulitzer Prizes, a Bollingen, and two National Book Awards in that one series alone.
The mission of Wesleyan University Press is to develop and maintain a sound and vigorous publishing program that serves the academic ends and intellectual life of the University.
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Sound Fragments
Noel Lobley
May 2022
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An Empty Room
Michael Sakamoto
May 2022
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Seeding the Tradition
Alexander M. Cannon
May 2022
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Critique Is Creative
Liz Lerman, John Borstel
May 2022
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The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore
Sylvie Kandé
Mar 2022
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Finalists
Rae Armantrout
Mar 2022
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The Writing of an Hour
Brenda Coultas
Mar 2022
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Nothing Special
Dianne Bilyak
Mar 2022
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Occasional Views, Volume 2
Samuel R. Delany
Dec 2021
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Be Brave to Things
Jack Spicer, edited by Daniel Katz
Nov 2021
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Ways of Voice
Matthew Rahaim
Nov 2021
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Baring Unbearable Sensualities
Rosemarie A. Roberts
Oct 2021
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Forthcoming Titles from Wesleyan University Press
The Selected Letters of John Cage
John Cage, edited by Laura Kuhn, foreword by Mark Swed
Jun 2022
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Seeding the Tradition
Alexander M. Cannon
Jun 2022
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Critique Is Creative
Liz Lerman, John Borstel
Jul 2022
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Belly to the Brutal
Jennifer Givhan
Aug 2022
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Lapis
Kerri Webster
Aug 2022
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In a Few Minutes Before Later
Brenda Hillman
Oct 2022
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In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful
Abigail Chabitnoy
Nov 2022
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Love and Rage
Kelley Tatro
Nov 2022
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Musical Resilience
Shalini R. Ayyagari
Nov 2022
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Critical Brass
Andrew Snyder
Nov 2022
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Moving Between Worlds
Andrea Olsen
Dec 2022
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American Poets in the 21st Century
North American Women Poets in the 21st Century
edited by Lisa Sewell, Kazim Ali
Feb 2020
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American Poets in the 21st Century
edited by Claudia Rankine, Michael Dowdy
Sep 2018
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Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century
edited by Claudia Rankine, Lisa Sewell
Feb 2012
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Best American Experimental Writing
BAX 2020
Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, edited by Carmen Maria Machado, Joyelle McSweeney
Dec 2020
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BAX 2018
edited by Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Myung Mi Kim
Jul 2018
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BAX 2016
edited by Seth Abramson, Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Jesse Damiani
Feb 2017
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Early Classics Of Science Fiction
Robur the Conqueror
Jules Verne, edited by Arthur B. Evans, translated by Alex Kirstukas
Jul 2017
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Celestial Empire
Nathaniel Isaacson
Feb 2017
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Sisters of Tomorrow
edited by Lisa Yaszek, Patrick B. Sharp
Jun 2016
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Garnet Books
Frog Hollow
Susan Campbell
Apr 2020
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Connecticut Architecture
Christopher Wigren
Oct 2018
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Connecticut Architecture
Christopher Wigren,
Oct 2018
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Hartford Books
Hartford Seen
Pablo Delano
Apr 2020
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One Hundred Years of Hartt
Demaris Hansen
Jan 2020
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Music / Culture
Sound Fragments
Noel Lobley
May 2022
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Seeding the Tradition
Alexander M. Cannon
May 2022
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Ways of Voice
Matthew Rahaim
Nov 2021
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Music / Interview
American Music Documentary
Benjamin J. Harbert
Jun 2018
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I Got a Song
Rick Massimo
Jun 2017
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Magic City Nights
Andre Millard
Apr 2017
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The Driftless Connecticut Series
Local Government in Connecticut, Third Edition
Frank B. Connolly
Oct 2013
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End of the Line
Markham Starr
May 2013
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Nothing Special
Dianne Bilyak
Mar 2022
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Paved Roads & Public Money
Richard DeLuca
Aug 2020
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The Driftless Series
Nothing Special
Dianne Bilyak
May 2022
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Forgotten Voices
Carolyn Wakeman
Dec 2019
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A Spicing of Birds
Emily Dickinson, edited by Jo Miles Schuman, Joanna Bailey Hodgman
Oct 2010
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The Journals of Samuel R. Delany
In Search of Silence
Samuel R. Delany, edited by Kenneth R. James
Feb 2017
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Wesleyan Film
Escape Velocity
Bradley Schauer
Jan 2017
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The Films of Samuel Fuller
Lisa Dombrowski
May 2015
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The Lives of Robert Ryan
J.R. Jones
May 2015
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Wesleyan New Poets
The Half-Inch Himalayas
Agha Shahid Ali
Feb 2013
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In Favor of Lightning
Barbara Molloy-Olund
Feb 2011
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Wesleyan Poetry Series
The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore
Sylvie Kandé
Mar 2022
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Finalists
Rae Armantrout
Mar 2022
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The Writing of an Hour
Brenda Coultas
Mar 2022
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