Lyrical and warm, Otsuji’s voice sounds out a sinew of words that make the remnants of heritage and home durable. In these poems each new generation seeks to reimagine for itself the elusive American Dream.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers expresses her familiarity with the actual and imaginary spaces that the American South occupies in our cultural lexicon.

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🌺🌸🌼🌷🪻🌹Come join us tomorrow! I'll be reading poems with Ron Austin at Lincoln University - Missouri! 🌺🌸🌼🌷🪻🌹

Happy Publication Day to Sara Henning's BURN, from the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry! A work of advocacy and uplift, BURN shines with the vibrant possibilities of narrative lyric poetry as it forges a path from grief to hope.

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Crossing oceans and generations, poet Luisa A. Igloria demonstrates how even our most personal and intimate experiences are linked to the larger collective histories that came before.

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Happy Belated Minnie Vautrin Day! Read about her incredible life in these two books from SIU Press!

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Moving between the languages of love and war, Jehanne Dubrow’s latest book offers valuable testimony to the experiences of military wives.

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This week on ITBF, we talk with Sara Henning, author of new release BURN!

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To understand the failing earth, Davidson’s speaker cajoles us to see the pain at its roots. From the opening poem to the final eschatological survey, this collection imagines a world in which private and public terrors feed on each other.

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As featured in SIU Today this morning, SIU Press is hosting the AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show for the next week! For more information and viewing times, visit our website: siupress.com/blog/2024/04/1…

Lisa Fay Coutley’s lyrical debut collection, ERRATA, investigates the delicate balance between parent and child, love and loss, hope and grief.

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Brown’s dazzling poems probe the disappointment of domestic reality in the face of America’s glossy facade, abundance and emptiness hand in hand.

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In VANISHING ACTS, Brian Barker cements his reputation as one of contemporary poetry’s great surrealists. These prose poems read like dreams and nightmares, fables and myths.

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In this inventive collection, Julianna Baggott invites readers to reconsider basic assumptions about language, faith, motherhood, and love.

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This week on ITBF, we wrap up our National Poetry Month book recommendation list.

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Adkisson's speaker explores our connections to each other, whether they be lovely or painful, static or constantly shifting, or, above all, unavoidable and necessary.

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Happy Publication Day to SUDDEN DEATHS IN ST. LOUIS: CORONER BIAS IN THE GILDED AGE by Sarah E. Lirley! This book highlights the stories of ordinary men and women whose lives were tragically cut short, and the injustice they received even after death.

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Through compelling personal accounts and family correspondence, ONE STEP AHEAD documents Alfred Feldman’s harrowing flight into exile as he and his family fled the pogroms that flooded across Nazi-occupied Europe.

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Don't miss the Friends of Morris Library/WSIU sale this weekend!