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Hamilton Prize Recipients Talk Creative Process, Future Work

Though Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02 tweets with relative regularity, it’s rare that the “Hamilton” writer and performer mentions Wesleyan students in his missives. Three newcomers to campus were a recent exception: ...

Forging New Centers: Marginal Voices in Contemporary Poetry

The Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong’s first book Night Sky with Exit Wounds features “Headfirst,” a kind of epistolary poem featuring a section in which a mother addresses her son: “When ...

At-Risk Assets: The Wesleyan University Press

n 1957, William Lockwood, a University alumnus, and Richard Bilber, a poet working in the English department, set in motion the creation of the Wesleyan University Press. Half a century ...

Student poets reflect at reading

Lisa Butler, a student at Manchester Community College, announced to the audience at Russell House that “storms are best for procreation.” Butler is not a climate researcher, but rather a ...

Wesleyan University Press wins National Book Award

The Wesleyan University Press recently won the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry for its publication of "Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003," by Jean Valentine. The ...