Invested in the circuitry and circuitous routes of migration and labor, Som’s lyricism weaves together the narratives of his transnational communities, bringing to light what is overshadowed in the reckless transit of global capitalism and imagining a world otherwise.
Earlier this week I found myself engaged in a pointless social media thread on the correct pronunciation of the late Rosalynn Carter’s first name, after which I realized that everyone commenting with great authority would only ever have called her “Mrs. Carter” if we’d had the chance. The world is grieving the death of this…
“Alive with hard-earned understanding and affirmation, these poems are for everyone who ever tried to leave a formative place of pain but found that person and place could never be fully untwined.”
“Japa & Other Stories by Iheoma Nwachukwu is everything that I hope to come upon as the series editor of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction: a voice that is at once fresh and fully formed, characters and premises that delight and surprise and edify.”
“Every page not only delights and instructs but also provokes and moves us, lingering like a remembered dream. . . . Waiting will quietly pull you in and knock you out.”
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Jessica Tanck as the winner of the 2022 Georgia Poetry Prize.
UGA Press announces their partnership Association of University Presses to host Ask UP for the spring 2023 quarter.
Carol Roh Spaulding has been chosen as this year’s winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
The University of Georgia Press announces The Emory Libraries Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, a new series in collaboration with the Emory Libraries.
The University of Georgia Press is pleased to announce Leah Nieboer as the winner of the2021 Georgia Poetry Prize. In partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology and theUniversity of Georgia, the University of Georgia Press established the Georgia Poetry Prize in2015 as a national competition that celebrates excellence in poetry. This year’s runner-up isMatthew Minicucci’s…
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