June is here and with it brought National Pen Pal Day on the 1st. While with the rise of technology having a pen-pal might seem to be a thing of the past, it is something I still partake in with…
Ending the Year
For the past year at the Bucknell Press, three days a week I would enter the hobbit hole in the basement of Taylor Hall and be welcomed by rooms of books. Truly, the perfect place to work for any book…
Celebrating World Book Day!
“Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapon” – Malala Yousafzai Celebrating authors, publishers, illustrators, books, and reading, World Book Day, also known as World Book and Copyright Day, is the largest worldwide celebration of books. Begun…
Bucknell University Book Collection Contest: Celebrating 2016 Winners
Beginning with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s question “Where do we find ourselves?” the winner of this year’s Bucknell University Press Book Collection Contest, junior math major Tom Bonan, learned through his years of reading that “[his] best hope at familiarity is…
Author interview: Melissa Fitch, Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary
While tango had previously been discussed globally almost exclusively in terms of the United States, Europe, or Japan, Global Tangos takes the reader into other parts of the world, many of which may be a surprise for the reader. Author…
Celebrating National Poetry Month
“Introduction to Poetry” By Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive I say drop a mouse into a poem and…
Bucknell Press Reviewed
From the American Poetry Review to the Journal of African American History to Studies in Travel Writing, the Bucknell University Press publishes a wide variety of books that have been reviewed in a slew of journals, newspapers, and other review…