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It is Hallowe’en. Turnip Head Will soon be given his face, A slit, two triangles, a hole. His brains litter the table top. A candle stub will be his soul. “Hallowe’en” by Michael Longley

in this sequoia grove the mind expands to the edge of the forest which is the edge of mind where I see the enchanted path in and through the teeming forest of childhood, your poetry written on my empty hands, the leaves, your pages dreaming a whole age: Paula Meehan

Look what arrived Martin Dyar ! It’s a beautiful book, and we can’t wait to read.

Happy University Press Week! Today in The New York Times Margaret Renki examines the value that university presses bring to the larger literary ecosystem, particularly in the age of corporate consolidation: nytimes.com/2022/11/14/opi… #ReadUP #NextUP

Cónaitheachtaí 🏡✈️🚄: Féach thíos deis iontach d'fhilí na Gaeilge! poetryireland.ie/news/i-bhfad-i…

Wonderful tribute to Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in The Irish Times ahead of her assuming position of Saoi of Aosdána tomorrow and her 80th birthday later this month. Moya Cannon, Gerald Dawe, Vincent Woods, and Enda Wyley reflect on her life and work: irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

.President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins presided at a ceremony today to mark the election of poet Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin as Saoi of #Aosdána. Members of Aosdána nominate & elect the Saoithe with no more than 7 members holding the honour at any one time. bit.ly/3tECDQK

The Slain Birds by Michael Longley is named one of the 5 best poetry collections of 2022 in The Washington Post. "Michael Longley’s work feels like an exquisite antidote to — or a radical rebuttal of — our chaotic cultural sphere." washingtonpost.com/books/2022/11/…

Professor Paul Muldoon has been announced as the next Ireland Professor of Poetry at a small reception hosted by President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, in Áras an Uachtaráin. Professor Paul Muldoon will be the ninth Ireland Professor of Poetry bit.ly/ICOPMuldoon

“All Kavanagh’s gifts are on display,” as Paul Muldoon writes in his introduction to this new selection of 40 poems spanning 30 years of Patrick Kavanagh’s career. New today from WFU Press!

Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior is "monumental and inspiring, and is a book for any reader interested in poetry and its cultural development." We're thrilled to be included in this excellent list by Martina Evans and Seán Hewitt in The Irish Times. irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

Don’t miss our 2022 Holiday Gift Guide, featuring new poetry titles for adults and young readers and literary-themed gifts, including offerings from Storey Publishing Univ. of Arkansas Press WFU Press & World Poetry Books: poets.org/academy-americ…

CIARAN CARSON Rimbaud The Alexandrine Plan ⁦WFU Press⁩ (1998) Carson’s translations reveal what made his original poems so original. Read this from any angle, but read it for the rhymes. Rimbaud suffers from his biography: Carson’s versions reveal an astonishing talent.

Poetry from our #WomensHistoryMonth reading list: In Some of the Things I’ve Seen (WFU Press), Sara Berkeley “maintains a tender awareness of the threats that surround us, especially for the children born into this increasingly uninhabitable world.” wfupress.wfu.edu/books/some-of-…

Support great indie publishers like NDSU Press, @WavePoetry, WFU Press, WordWorks Editor, Autumn House Press, CavanKerry Press, Belle Point Press, Fernwood Press, Slate Roof Press, Prairie Schooner & more by buying a book from our #WomensHistoryMonth list! clmp.org/news/a-reading…

Available now: Some of the Things I’ve Seen by Sara Berkeley wfupress.wfu.edu/books/some-of-…

"I think that sadness has inspired more poetry for me than joy in the past, but I find that balance shifting now." Read our new interview with Sara Berkeley in celebration of her newest book, Some of the Things I've Seen: wfupress.wfu.edu/interview/i-ca…

Join us next Wednesday for a special reading with Irish poet John McAuliffe as he launches a recent collection from WFU Press. Selected Poems are "poems of the senses, of place, of childhood memories from Kerry, and of calendar and life events." bit.ly/3JUyxfh

SARA BERKELEY Some of the Things I’ve Seen ⁦WFU Press⁩ 2023. Rich with substantives and powerfully flowing between singular perceptions, yearnings, and intimate universals. A massive talent I’ve only now become aware of. ⁦Amanda Bell⁩

John McAuliffe begins his US reading tour tonight at Wake Forest University. Learn more about the full tour on our website: wfupress.wfu.edu/news/john-mcau…