A Guest Blog Post for University Press Week A parson tucked away in the tiny village of Ousby who formulates an evidence-free theory of the evolution of the earth. A forgotten poet who imagines that the citizens of Saturn enjoy…
Amplifying Voices from Sierra Leone
A Guest Blog Post for University Press Week “Sierra Leone, your tragedy was too painful to be a poem.If you could speak, it would be raw in my bones!”–Syl Cheney-Coker, “Lake Fire,” in Stone Child and Other Poems (2008) My…
Excerpt: Writing Home
The following excepts are from Donald Ulin’s new book Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier, which offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Quaker immigrant Emma Alderson through her own letters. From the introduction… “On…
Quakerism, Archives, and Cross-writing: An Interview with Donald Ulin
Donald Ulin, editor of Writing Home: A Quaker Immigrant on the Ohio Frontier, talks with our graduate assistant Madison Weaver about the challenges of archival work, Quaker views on social justice issues, and how the life of an ordinary nineteenth-century…
ALTA43 Virtual Exhibit
In celebration of ALTA43, Bucknell University Press has assembled a list of books that may be of interest to attendees. Bucknell is a leading publisher in the humanities with a focus on literary studies, and maintains a broad interest in…
A Good Surprise in a Terrible Year
The Nobel Prize in Literature for Louise Glück A Guest Post by Lee Upton At last, a good surprise in a terrible year. My mother-in-law brought me the news first: Louise Glück had won the Nobel Prize. Glück has often…
Celebrating Marsha P. Johnson
On what would have been her 75th birthday, LGBTQ+ activist and icon Marsha P. Johnson made history yet again, almost thirty years after her passing. New York governor Chris Cuomo announced on August 24, 2020 that what was previously known as…