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✨ NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER! ✨When Ohio Was Blue is a book about politics for people who aren’t steeped in it and who m...
01/12/2026

✨ NOW AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER! ✨

When Ohio Was Blue is a book about politics for people who aren’t steeped in it and who may not even like politics very much. Far more than simply a memoir, this book provides readers with a behind-the-scenes account of what it was like to work at the highest level of Ohio politics during the 1980s and ’90s, when Democrats like the late US Senators John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum dominated the political landscape in the Buckeye State.

Preorder now 👇 and save 30% with the code POLITICS30. Note: Discount code doesn't work on mobile devices.

https://blogs.uakron.edu/uapress/product/when-ohio-was-blue/

📣 We're back with a TRIPLE cover reveal! Yes, three new stunning book covers for three new stunning poetry collections. ...
01/07/2026

📣 We're back with a TRIPLE cover reveal! Yes, three new stunning book covers for three new stunning poetry collections. Preorders open soon. Stay tuned!

📚 Paperweight by
Ryan Teitman’s second book uses myths and meditations to create gemlike, multifaceted poems. Filled with doubles and dreams, Paperweight dives into how humans harness their ability to create—whether to make works of art or to simply find hope in the depths of grief. By exploring the boundaries of the prose poem, Teitman finds unexpected lenses through which to view the beauty of the natural world, the breadth of contemporary culture, and the narratives of everyday life.

📚I'll Take My Body To-Go by Kindall Jackson Fredricks
Kindall Fredricks' debut collection, I’ll Take My Body To-Go, begins by following a rattling hive of girls who came of age in the early 2000s. This is a book about girls who burn at the belly like a shot tin can. Girls who feel freshly peeled, ugly, and certain they’ve been cheated of something, they’re just not sure of what yet. Girls who wing their eyeliner as fiercely as an oath. Girls who can “find the nape of anything” and dig their name into the bark of their world by being as loud and as defiant as possible.

With brazen reverence, Fredricks does not shy from illuminating the trauma of their lived experiences, which are a rejection of the wax-paper world of girlhood that is so often portrayed—together, they flick the ashes of amen to the dirt, shoplift cheap wine from gas stations, and hunt for any escape from the everyday violence girls are expected to endure. I’ll Take My Body To-Go is about girls who listened, women who are listening still.

📚 Cryptid by Annah Browning
Annah Browning’s poetry collection Cryptid takes on weird phenomena and real desire. In these pages, a young woman from the rural South longs to be abducted by aliens; a female sasquatch spies on human families and pines for love; a Chinese spy balloon is heartbroken by being shot down. Through these personas and a host of strange happenings from American folklore, Cryptid probes the longing for something more buried at the heart of the lives of women and those deemed “other” by an unjust world. By turns irreverently funny, grotesquely bodily, and eerily heartbreaking, Cryptid insists on the beauty of the unseen and the disbelieved.

Join us tomorrow at the Akron History Center from 10:30am to 1:30pm for your chance to meet and talk to editors Carolyn ...
12/12/2025

Join us tomorrow at the Akron History Center from 10:30am to 1:30pm for your chance to meet and talk to editors Carolyn Behrman and Timothy Matney about their new book What Remains: Infirmary Burials, Memory, and Community in the Rubber City.

What Remains presents a grassy field with a complicated and fraught history. What is now a suburban park where people play soccer and flag football in the City of Akron, Ohio, was once a Progressive-era county infirmary’s burial ground for people who were poor, infirm, troubled, immigrant, injured, alcoholic, elderly, or otherwise deemed “unemployable” during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through community-engaged scholarship, this book uses legal, historical, archaeological, and anthropological lenses to consider what is above and below the grass. What Remains is about memories and stories; how at times we collectively remember, forget, or even invent new pasts through the process of tracing and uncovering our own histories. It is about what is worth remembering, what is better left forgotten, and who gets to decide.

Don't miss the Akron Bicentennial musical event of the year!Join us Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 7 pm at E.J. Thomas ...
12/01/2025

Don't miss the Akron Bicentennial musical event of the year!

Join us Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 7 pm at E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall for “A Concert For Akron, By Akron," featuring all Akron performers and/or composers in a culminating celebration of our City’s musical heritage and talent, where we're honored to be selling copies of Akron at 200 at 50% off.

Reserve your tickets now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-concert-for-akron-by-akron-the-akron-bicentennial-concert-tickets-1852910458059

EXCITING NEWS! 🎉The University of Akron Press is delighted to announce that it will publish the poetry collection A Ways...
11/28/2025

EXCITING NEWS! 🎉

The University of Akron Press is delighted to announce that it will publish the poetry collection A Ways Away by Krystal Languell as part of the Akron Series in Poetry.

Krystal Languell lives in Chicago. She is the author of four previous books of poetry, most recently Systems Thinking with Flowers (2022), selected by Rae Armantrout as the winner of the first Fonograf Editions book contest. She works for a nonprofit in the suburbs, and in her unpaid time participates in dynamic resource mobilization with and for her neighbors. Since 2010, she has helped guide the activity of Belladonna* Collaborative and, as Bone Bouquet, she sometimes acts as a publisher.

Read the full announcement here: https://www.uakron.edu/uapress/about-us/news/news-detail.dot?newsId=276bcb1882b63574fba52a1c77c47684&pageTitle=Recent%20Headlines&crumbTitle=University%20of%20Akron%20Press%20to%20Publish%20A%20Ways%20Away%20by%20Krystal%20Languell

We love a good conversation about poetry! 🔥Check out this interview up at On the Seawall: https://www.ronslate.com/a-dia...
11/19/2025

We love a good conversation about poetry! 🔥

Check out this interview up at On the Seawall: https://www.ronslate.com/a-dialogue-with-derek-mon/

Thanks to Derek Mong for mentioning Sarah Green's The Deletions (published April 2025), and thanks to Jonathan Farmer for asking the question about poets who aren't getting as much attention as their poems deserve.

Small presses often get overlooked simply because of their size, but as a small university press, we strive to produce works that meet the highest editorial and design standards. 👏

IT’S HERE! Our annual holiday sale starts now and runs through Friday, Dec. 5. All books will be 50% off when purchased ...
11/14/2025

IT’S HERE! Our annual holiday sale starts now and runs through Friday, Dec. 5. All books will be 50% off when purchased online or at Northside Marketplace, including new titles and best sellers. Use code FAF50UA online. Discount code does not work on mobile devices.

We are kicking off the holiday sale with assorted cookies and a special signing of “Akron at 200,” featuring Jon Miller, inside a Bierce now until 1p.m.

Huge thank you to the Buckeye Book Fair for another wonderful book fair! Our authors offered quite the spread of Ohio hi...
11/03/2025

Huge thank you to the Buckeye Book Fair for another wonderful book fair! Our authors offered quite the spread of Ohio history books!

Heading to the Byckeye Book Fair tomorrow? Be sure to say hi to all the UA Press authors attending! You'll find Dr. Jon ...
10/31/2025

Heading to the Byckeye Book Fair tomorrow? Be sure to say hi to all the UA Press authors attending! You'll find Dr. Jon Miller, Dr. Steven D. Hambley, and John W. Kropf with their latest works at the book fair from 9:30am to 4pm.

WOW! UA Press author Sarah Green interviewed with .vanderhart, and you do not want to miss your chance to listen to this...
10/30/2025

WOW! UA Press author Sarah Green interviewed with .vanderhart, and you do not want to miss your chance to listen to this beautiful episode up at ! 🔥

https://ofpoetrypodcast.com/

NEW ESSAY ALERT! ☄There is much to enjoy in Ryan Teitman's latest essay up at Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine, as pa...
10/27/2025

NEW ESSAY ALERT! ☄

There is much to enjoy in Ryan Teitman's latest essay up at Poetry Foundation & Poetry Magazine, as part of This Be the Place, a series of short essays in which poets explore the mysteries and meaning of a particular place.

"At this table, there is no script; the story isn’t written beforehand. No one knows exactly what will happen next; we each become performer and audience, rolled into one."

Read now: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/1735889/this-be-the-place-a-gaming-table-in-philadelphia

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