Bucknell University Press

10/06/2025

It’s , which means the Banned Books Week Committee here at Bucknell University has been working tirelessly to organize a week full of events celebrating your .

This year, the theme is “Censorship is so 1984. Read for Your Rights,” invoking George Orwell’s “1984” and the dangers of censorship surrounding increasing attempts to ban books across the country. One of Bucknell University Press’s own has experienced this censorship: “Cigar Smoke and Violet Water: Gendered Discourse in the Stories of Emilia Pardo Bazán” by Joyce Tolliver was one of 381 books removed from the Naval Academy Library earlier this year.

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09/29/2025

Happy National Translation Month! Cheers to every translator who builds bridges to literary communities across the globe. To celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of our books in translation in our newest blog post!

And as a special treat, purchases of books in translation published by Bucknell University Press can enjoy a discount and free US shipping using code RUP30. Happy reading!

To read, shop our catalog, and more: https://linktr.ee/bucknellupress

09/10/2025

We are excited to share that this Sunday, September 14th at 4pm, Wendy M. Thompson will be reading from BLACK CALIFORNIA GOLD at a poetry reading at Book Passage Bookstore & Cafe in Corte Madera, California, alongside Terra Oliveira, author of Itinerant Songs (from Recenter Press).

Published in partnership with Bucknell Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures, BLACK CALIFORNIA GOLD explores the ties that bind Chinese laborers, Black southerners, and the promise of California dreams-turned displacement in the twentieth century. Says Raina León, “Thompson invites us into a new black, poetic cartography, one that extends from the earth into the skies in its content; it is alive with poetic experimentation and risk. This book sings us through history, though our survival into thriving, into the stars and back again!”

For more information and to order BLACK CALIFORNIA GOLD: https://tinyurl.com/hvrrnjmv

09/05/2025

Since Bucknell provost Wendy F. Sternberg announced plans to shutter the university press next summer, AUPresses has entered talks with university officials in the hopes of coming up with “a mutually beneficial reimagination of the press.”

08/25/2025

"Mahaffey, winner of the American Conference on Irish Studies’ Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature, has accomplished something remarkable with this work: she has managed to translate the extraordinariness of Joyce into something brilliantly ordinary so that the work can breathe anew in less rarefied air." -The Irish Times

The American academic succeeds in mitigating the sustained perception that reading Joyce is a challenging, intellectual exercise of great seriousness

06/17/2025

If you're in the Bay Area, treat yourself to this reading by poet Wendy Thompson from her affecting new collection, "Black California Gold." Sausalito Books by the Bay, 6/26 at 6pm. In conversation with Felecia Gaston.

About the book: https://tinyurl.com/2upvvnvd

Sausalito Books by the Bay

06/16/2025

Celebrate Bloomsday with the man himself.
https://tinyurl.com/34pnvhxk

04/29/2025

For National Poetry Month, check out our latest blog post! We interviewed Michael Naydan about the recent paperback edition of Bohdan Ihor Antonych's work. Naydan talks about Ukrainian poetry, Antonych, and the process of translating poetry

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04/15/2025

For National Poetry Month, check out our latest blog post! We interviewed Wendy Thompson about her recent collection of poetry BLACK CALIFORNIA GOLD

Click here to read:
https://tinyurl.com/3rwjkpys

04/15/2025

Sharing an article by BUP translator Michael Naydan from Penn State

Is There Hope in Actual Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia?, by Michael M. Naydan

Click here to read:
https://t.co/VFCrOPJEbZ

04/15/2025

On Thursday, 1 May 2025 from 5:15pm to 6:30pm, join University of St. Andrews in hosting Nicolle Jordan for a talk on Anne Finch's poetry!

Known for her defense of women's education and artistic agency, Finch approaches this genre in a way that seemingly amounts to a celebration of patriarchy. Dissonance thus arises between her proto-feminism and her deference to male supremacy, a disposition informed in turn by her Jacobite affiliation. Landscape offers a compelling heuristic with which to interpret these discordant aspects of Finch's identity.

For more information:
https://tinyurl.com/4em9mp7n

03/26/2025

Hosted by the University of York, this talk centres on the property ownership of Montagu, who was born in York at Treasurer’s House. It draws from the final chapter of Nicolle Jordan’s book Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790, which assesses the ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’ in relation to her landowning practices.

Montagu’s status as a prolific letter writer, coal magnate, and extremely wealthy landowner, who undertook vast estate improvements in collaboration with Capability Brown, makes her a unique illustration of how landscape and women’s independence are inextricably linked in the eighteenth century.

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