Category: Poetry

 Guest Post by Holly Dugan Early spring is, famously, cruel. The bite of winter is still sharp, even “whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / the droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote” (“when that April with his sweet showers pierce the drought of March”). Chaucer's famous opening lines of the Canterbury Tales…

 Guest Post by Holly Dugan Early spring is, famously, cruel. The bite of winter is still sharp, even “whan that Aprille with his shoures soote / the droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote” (“when that April with his sweet showers pierce the drought of March”). Chaucer's famous opening lines of the Canterbury Tales…

March roars in with a variety of events suitable for lionizing, and JHU Press authors, editors, and staff will keep busy all month. Stephen H. Grant loved the idea that the official publication date for Collecting Shakespeare would be the Ides of March, and several events around that date welcome his book. At Hunter College,…

Enter code HDPD at checkout to receive a 30% discount on all books featured in this blog post or mention this code when calling in your order at 1-800-537-5487. News and Notes/Praise and Reviews Dr. Gil Yosipovitch, coauthor of Living with Itch: A Patient’s Guide, was featured in The New York Times and The Philadelphia…

Enter code HDPD at checkout to receive a 30% discount on all books featured in this blog post or mention this code when calling in your order at 1-800-537-5487. News and Notes/Praise and Reviews Dr. Gil Yosipovitch, coauthor of Living with Itch: A Patient’s Guide, was featured in The New York Times and The Philadelphia…

If you're on the hunt for literary bargains, take a sneak peak at our Online Sale! News and Notes/Praise and Reviews The Huffington Post names Benedetta Berti’s Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration  one of the best political science books of 2013. A recent Baltimore City Paper review  of Michael Olesker’s Front Stoops in…

If you're on the hunt for literary bargains, take a sneak peak at our Online Sale! News and Notes/Praise and Reviews The Huffington Post names Benedetta Berti’s Armed Political Organizations: From Conflict to Integration  one of the best political science books of 2013. A recent Baltimore City Paper review  of Michael Olesker’s Front Stoops in…

Chapter and Verse is a series that features JHU Press authors and editors discussing the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. It isn't often that three poets laureate (among others)  praise a book prior to its publication.  That was the case with Over the River…

With the Modern Language Association's 2014 meeting now in full-swing, we're pleased to publish a second installment of Chapter & Verse today. This post draws from Daniel Tiffany's work discussing the idea and history of "kitsch" as it relates to poetry.  "Once upon a time, long before it had been reduced to a synonym for mediocrity in the arts,…

Chapter and Verse is a series that features JHU Press authors and editors discussing the literary landscape of poetry and prose, whether their own creative work or the literature of others. It isn't often that three poets laureate (among others)  praise a book prior to its publication.  That was the case with Over the River…