October 12, 2017
Inspired by Romare Bearden’s 1977 sequence of twenty watercolors, Bearden’s Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden (2017) gathers original poems from thirty-five of the most revered African diaspora poets… READ MORE
Former Poet Laureate of Jamaica Mervyn Morris presents half a century of poetry with an intense musicality in Peelin Orange: Collected Poems, reinventing how universals can inhere in the local, the incarnation in… READ MORE
M. Evelina Galang’s Lolas’ House tells the stories, in unprecedented detail, of sixteen surviving Filipino “comfort women,” kidnapped by the Imperil Japanese Army during World War II and forced into sexual slavery…. READ MORE
Denise Duhamel takes on celebrity, sex, reproduction, and religion in her new poetry collection, Scald. In Magdalene, Marie Howe imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as spiritual, sensual, and searching for meaning in a… READ MORE
October 2, 2017
With the fall semester in full swing, Northwestern University Press staff members reflect on some of their favorite reads of the summer. Greta Bennion, Marketing Manager We Should All Be… READ MORE
September 25, 2017
Lolas’ Hosue author Evelina Galang reads at the Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, WI.
M. Evelina Galang reads at Women & Children First Bookstore in Chicago, IL.
M. Evelina Galang reads at the Miami Book Fair.
Lolas’ House author M. Evelina Galang reads at Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Los Angles, CA.
M. Evelina Galang reads at San Francisco State University