Let music go on without me

two end-of-April excerpts from Carolyn Hembree’s For Today (@lsupress)

#jeffreymeyers joined me on #PersonalLandscapes #podcast to talk about #JamesSalter 's remarkable prose style, his core themes of love and loss, and why this giant of American fiction isn’t widely read today.

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Celebrating International Jazz Day during New Orleans Jazz Fest with a Drumsville presentation @UNO Midlo Center.
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⁦New Orleans Jazz Museum⁩
⁦LSU Press⁩
⁦New Orleans JazzFest⁩
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'Fog fills the hollows of the land and the contours of Ryan Wilson’s soul in his masterful new book of poetry, 'In Ghostlight.' This volume is a stunner, blistering quietly through shrouds of fog and mist and longing.' bit.ly/3WjQ0oY

My new collection, FOR TODAY (LSU Press), is on the Academy of American Poets Reading List for National Poetry Month w/ my fave new beauties: Cynthia Marie Hoffman's EXPLODING HEAD, Angelique N. Zobitz's SERAPHIM, Jenny Irish's HATCH, Rachel Edelman she/they's DEAR MEMPHIS, Maria Stepanova's HOLY WINTER.

Robert Morgan reads from Fallen Angel: The Life of Edgar Allan Poe (LSU Press), nominated for Best Critical/Biographical. #Edgars2024

Thank you for including my excerpt from For Today (LSU Press, 2024) ❤️❤️❤️

So excited to have the backing of the NOUS Foundation for New Orleans Baby Dolls recapturing Louisiana Creole. Harvard Radcliffe Institute LSU Press Univ Press of MS onebookonenolaofficial

'This book is deeply researched and engaging, offering much to abolitionist historiography.... This is a book that I am so glad was written and one that I will long think about.'—CWBR on Frank Cirillo's 'The Abolitionist Civil War'

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April's 'On Poetry,' courtesy of Steven Leyva (and featuring JackLeg Press, LSU Press, Karen Rigby, and Ryan Wilson): washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/on-po…

Please join us now on our Facebook page for a live event featuring Duncan A. Campbell and Niels Eichhorn! They will be discussing and answering questions about their new LSU Press book, 'The Civil War in the Age of Nationalism.” fb.watch/rF46WgqDMN/

Spotted at the Harvard Bookstore Publisher Focus Window: books by Ben Wynne and Jeffrey E. Anderson!

'Tomos Wallbank-Hughes’s canny, penetrating analyses of historical novels about Reconstruction and its aftermath uncover new ways to understand emancipation.”—Nancy Bentley

Happy #pubday to 'America's Imagined Revolution,' by Tomos Hughes! bit.ly/americasimagin…

Looking forward to celebrating International Jazz Day during NO Jazz Fest @ the UNO Midlo Center.
⁦LSU Press⁩
⁦New Orleans Jazz Museum⁩
⁦Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies⁩
#drumsville
#jazzfest
#neworleans

Coming in the fall LSU Press

On the day of the recent solar eclipse, Lisa Ampleman joined the Drunk as a Poet on Payday Podcast for a discussion of her new collection, 'Mom in Space.' Give it a listen! bit.ly/3vV4iSu

Thank you to Miracle Monocle 🧐 and Ashley Rutland for this review of *Mom in Space* and interview with me about the book!

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'Hembree dwells on all the possible functions of the occasional poem, two of them being 'August 29, 2005' and 'April 2020,' both elegiac in tone. ... metonymic of an era, while the final section—one of my favorite long poems by any writer—is the era of a single day.' (LSU Press)

That moment when the widow of one of Florida's great noir writers reviews your book on Amazon and gets the dark humor. Thank you, Betsy Willeford! #books #writerscommunity