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Biomythography Bayou
Mel Michelle Lewis
“This innovative and tender manuscript is an absolute pleasure to read. Sensually southern, fem(me)ininely curving, and rhythmically grounded, Biomythography Bayou is an everyday praise song to black queer spirit and the landscapes that raise us.” —Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, author of Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders
The Joyce of Everyday Life
Vicki Mahaffey
“A brilliant, lively guide to the joys of reading Joyce for intellectual stimulation and personal growth. With characteristic verve and lucidity, Mahaffey reminds us how Joyce’s words make us come alive to life and language as we glimpse ourselves in his nicely polished mirrors. Both new and veteran readers will benefit from Mahaffey’s deep, witty engagements with Joyce’s fictions.” —Robert Spoo, author of Modernism and the Law
Contemporary Francophone African Plays
An Anthology
Edited by Judith G. Miller
“Judith Miller, the foremost scholar in the field, has curated an indispensable and invaluable transhistorical and transnational anthology. Contemporary Francophone African Plays offers unprecedented insights into the work of some of the most experimental, innovative, and groundbreaking dramatists of the past five decades.” —Dominic Thomas, coauthor of New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres
The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych
Ecstasies and Elegies
By Bohdan Ihor Antonych
Translated by Michael M. Naydan
“These translations bring us the intimate and ecstatic visions of a young poet as he steps onto the world stage. . . . These are magical poems.” —James Brasfield, translator of The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha
Events
- Saturday, 1 February 2025
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Black History Month (February 1-28)
Saturday, 1 February 2025
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- Tuesday, 11 February 2025
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New-in-Paperback: Medbh McGuckian, by Borbála Faragó
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland analyzes Mebdh McGuckian’s entire corpus, offering both an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies and a readable synthesis of existing criticism that will be useful to academics and students. Read more.
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- Friday, 28 February 2025
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Black History Month (February 1-28)
Friday, 28 February 2025
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- Saturday, 1 March 2025
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Women's History Month (March 1-31)
Saturday, 1 March 2025
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- Tuesday, 11 March 2025
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Black California Gold, by Wendy M. Thompson
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
In this arresting debut poetry collection, Thompson traces the past and present of California’s Bay Area, exploring themes of family, migration, girlhood, and identity against a backdrop of urban redevelopment, advanced gentrification, and the erasure of Black communities. Read more.
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- Monday, 31 March 2025
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Women's History Month (March 1-31)
Monday, 31 March 2025
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- Tuesday, 1 April 2025
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National Poetry Month (April 1-30)
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Each year the month of April is set aside as National Poetry Month, a time to celebrate poets and their craft. Various events are held throughout the month by the Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations.
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- Tuesday, 15 April 2025
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Charles Johnson's "General History of the Pyrates" and Global Commerce, by Noel Chevalier
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
This study explores how General History of the Pyrates was at the heart of early eighteenth-century British debates about commerce, colonialism, and law. Examining how pirates are depicted as both monsters and Great Men, Noel Chevalier untangles the contradictions within a Britain emerging as a colonial superpower, where ruthlessness and ambition were both feared and praised. Read more.
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Revisiting Richardson, edited by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer
Tuesday, 15 April 2025
In these lively and engaging essays, contributors examine historically overlooked works, provide new readings of Richardson's best-known novels Pamela and Clarissa, and stake a serious claim for the importance of his final novel, Sir Charles Grandison. Diverse, inventive, and provocative, these essays demonstrate the complexity, relevance, and surprising legacies of Richardson’s novels and characters—finding traces in post-conceptual poetry, detective fiction, and in the fantasies of historical romance. Read more.
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