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If you’re in Baltimore for the AWP Conference, join us today on Wednesday, March 4 at 7 pm, at Baltimore Museum of Industry's Communications Gallery, for a reading featuring authors from the @uwiscpress.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social & @southernreview.bsky.social (1/2)

We're live with Joseph Bathanti, author of the brand-new poetry collection, "Steady Daylight"! Please join us for a book talk and Q&A. | LSU Press We're live with Joseph Bathanti, author of the brand-new poetry collection, "Steady Daylight"! Please join us for a book talk and Q&A.

And we’re live! Please join us for a book talk and Q&A with Joseph Bathanti, author of the brand-new poetry collection, "Steady Daylight.” www.facebook.com/100063697324...

We have five book launches this March, starting today with "Steady Daylight" by Joseph Bathanti! As always, our launches stream live at 2 p.m. CST on Facebook and Substack and are archived on YouTube.

Check out our full lineup of upcoming events here: https://bit.ly/lsuplaunch

Last week at the Southern Seminary, Eric C. Smith spoke with Dr. Greg Wills about his new book, "Between Worlds," the first critical biography of one of its founders, John A. Broadus. You can find their conversation here: https://bit.ly/3OJnhZc

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Cover of the book "Resurrection Pie," by John Wall Barger, featuring a metallic, concentric circle design background.

"These are poems that are both easily apprehended and fathomless.” —Shane McCrae

In "Resurrection Pie," John Wall Barger's new collection of poetry, Barger writes the odd, the marvelous, and the wounded with unguarded clarity. Happy #pubday!

📚: https://bit.ly/resurrectionpie

I’ll be at #AWP26 next week, and I’ll be signing and reading from A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart out from @lsupress.bsky.social

Please say hello!

It’s publication day for A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart! And I started a Substack lol.

Thanks so much to @lsupress.bsky.social

Happy birthday, book!

Book cover of "A Red Knock-Knocking Like a Heart," by Kate Gaskin, showing legs appearing from under a bed on a geometric patterned rug.

"[A] gorgeous exploration of the complexities of parenting." — Traci Brimhall

"A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart," Kate Gaskin's new poetry collection, sifts through grief while tapping into the sublime state that underlies loss and love. Happy #pubday!

📚: https://bit.ly/likeaheart

Civilians - Center for Literary Publishing $20.95 Buy Book About the Book Author: Jehanne DubrowReviewed By: Dale CottinghamGenre: PoetryPublisher: LSU PressPublished: 2025Pages: 78 Book ReviewIn the disturbance we call America, we must navigate the tension between job and home, between what we love and what we must do, to find balance if we can. And we call on our poets—who spend […]

"The scope of the book is a lifetime, the measure of the book is life. The volume is compelling, a necessary addition to our cannon. I keep it close."

From a brilliant new review of Jehanne Dubrow's poetry collection "Civilians" in Colorado Review!

🖊️: https://bit.ly/4tUfgR1

Announcement for SACRPH's new book series on metropolitan development, featuring three authors and their recent publications.

Please join J. Mark Souther, author of "Sandhill Cities," for a new book series sponsored by the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) today at noon CST/1 p.m. EST on Zoom!

sacrph.org/archives/6283

Cover of "Louisiana Healing Garden," by Corinne Martin, featuring colorful medicinal plants, butterflies, and bees against a black background.

“You will learn the plants of Louisiana like never before.” —Tammany Baumgarten

In "Louisiana Healing Garden," herbalist Corinne Martin explores Louisiana’s plants and their power to provide healing in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. Happy #pubday!

📚: https://bit.ly/lahealinggarden

Cover of "The Plural of Water," by Bruce Bond, featuring a misty river landscape with a narrow strip of land dividing the water.

"[A] searching, open-field meditation on the... lyric’s capacity to hold the unrepresentable." —Kimberly Grey

Happy #pubday to Bruce Bond! His new poetry collection, "The Plural of Water," explores how the unconscious shapes our ability to perceive today's crises.

📚: https://bit.ly/pluralofwater

Map of the AWP Bookfair in Baltimore, highlighting the location of the LSU Press booth.

Schedule for LSU Press book signing event on March 5 featuring authors Rebecca Hazelton, Biljana D. Obradović, Daniel Tobin, Kate Gaskin, Moira Egan, and Catherine Carter.

Schedule for LSU Press book signing event on Friday, March 6, featuring Bruce Bond, John Wall Berger, Chelsea Witton, Rose McLarney, and Christopher Bakken.

Poster for AWP Offsite University Press Poetry Reading on March 4, 2026, from 7-9 PM at Baltimore Museum of Industry.

Going to Baltimore for #AWP26 ? Here's some helpful info about where to find us at the Bookfair, when our authors will be signing books, and how to attend our offsite reading with the University of Wisconsin Press and the University of Pittsburgh Press!

Trident Poetry Series: Dan Beachy-Quick - Elements & Offerings — Trident Booksellers & Cafe Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator whose most recent book, Elements & Offerings , is now out from LSU Press. His work has been supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teac

Boulder readers: Catch poet Dan Beachy-Quick’s reading for the Trident Poetry Series at Trident Booksellers & Cafe tomorrow, February 24, at 6:30 p.m.! https://bit.ly/4aLuGhJ

A book titled A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart being held in front of two houseplants

My new book of poems A Red Knock-Knocking like a Heart is coming out with @lsupress.bsky.social a week from today! This book is about grief and parenting; neurodivergence and infant loss; honeysuckle, oceans, barred owls, and space aliens.

Mostly, it’s filled with big, big love.

NEW ORLEANS: A Concise History of an Exceptional City, lovely-looking introduction to unique place NEW ORLEANS: A Concise History of an Exceptional City CHARLES D. CHAMBERLAIN LSU Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $19.95 eboo...

@lsupress.bsky.social published NEW ORLEANS: A Concise History of an Exceptional City by CHARLES D. CHAMBERLAIN, a lovely object and good introduction to a unique, delightful place: #Booksky
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Cees Nooteboom, Voyaging Author of Enigmatic Novels, Dies at 92 A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Dutch journalist and novelist Cees Nooteboom, whose 1980 novel, "Rituals," was the first to be published in English by our press. Our condolences to Nooteboom's loved ones during this time. https://bit.ly/4cGLYzc

The Author’s Corner with Eric C. Smith Eric C. Smith is Associate Professor of Church History at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, Between Worlds: John A. Broadus, the Southern Baptist S…

The Author's Corner with Eric C. Smith: *Between Worlds: John A. Broadus, the Southern Baptist Seminary, and the Prospects of the New South*: thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/02/19/t... @lsupress.bsky.social

NEW ORLEANS: A Concise History of an Exceptional City, lovely-looking introduction to unique place NEW ORLEANS: A Concise History of an Exceptional City CHARLES D. CHAMBERLAIN LSU Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $19.95 eboo...

@lsupress.bsky.social published NEW ORLEANS: A Concise History of an Exceptional City by CHARLES D. CHAMBERLAIN, a lovely object and good introduction to a unique, delightful place: #Booksky
expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/02/new-...

Book Review: War Fought and Felt: The Emotional Motivations of Confederate Soldiers - Emerging Civil War War Fought and Felt: The Emotional Motivations of Confederate Soldiers. By Joshua R. Shiver. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2025. Hardcover, 232 pp. $45.00. Reviewed by Dr. James Hill “Trae” Welborn III In this in-depth analysis of white southern manhood among Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War, historian Joshua R. Shiver builds upon recent emotions […]

"[A]n important work of emotions history on evolving conceptions of white southern manhood across the Civil War Era."

From a new review of Joshua Shiver's "War Fought and Felt: The Emotional Motivations of Confederate Soldiers" in Emerging Civil War.

📝: https://bit.ly/4kFbDKy

Author Joseph Bathanti's East Liberty - Pittsburgh Review of Books Until I read Joseph Bathanti’s novel, East Liberty (Banks Channel Books, 2001) I never thought much of Negley Run Boulevard or the Meadow Street Bridge that

"Bathanti invents a world ample enough for the dead and the living through incantatory language..."

From a new retrospective of Joseph Bathanti’s work and a review of his latest LSU Press collection, "Steady Daylight," in the Pittsburgh Review of Books!

📝: https://bit.ly/4aAhxbh

Very excited to be heading up to Natchez, Miss. to sign books ("The Obituary Cocktail" and "The Café Brûlot," published by @lsupress.bsky.social) at Dixon Books & Loft this Sat. Feb. 21, 1-3 p.m. Looking forward to seeing my Natchez friends -- come up and surprise me!

Going to AWP? Please join us for this offsite reading featuring @uwiscpress.bsky.social and @upittpress.bsky.social!
Reading for LSU Press will be James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn, while Arao Ameny and Ryan Teitman will represent @southernreview.bsky.social.

Book Review: Voices of the Formerly Enslaved in Louisiana: The WPA Narratives - Emerging Civil War Voices of the Formerly Enslaved in Louisiana: The WPA Narratives. Edited by Andrea Livesey. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2025. 552 pp. $65.00. Reviewed by Neil P. Chatelain Under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) famously hired people across the country to conduct interviews of elderly Black Americans who either […]

"Voices of the Formerly Enslaved in Louisiana," the first complete and annotated collection of Louisiana's WPA oral histories of formerly enslaved persons, received a thoughtful review in Emerging Civil War.

📝: https://bit.ly/46ESB15

Image featuring the cover of "The Army Under Fire," by Cecily N. Zander, and a quote praising its contribution to Reconstruction historiography.

Check out this great review of Cecily Zander's "The Army Under Fire," which recently appeared in the latest issue of The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

📝: https://bit.ly/3ZvVqOo
📚: https://bit.ly/thearmyunderfire

What did Irish do during the CW? Why did Irish migrants fight for the US? What motivates soldiers? Damian Shiels explores these questions in _Green and Blue:
Irish Americans in the Union Military, 1861–1865_ @lsupress.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0MST... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

How do we remember a monster like Nathan Bedford Forrest? Court Carney and I discuss his book _⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory_ @lsupress.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... open.spotify.com/episode/7cOj...

Black and white photo of an industrial building under a cloudy sky with the title "Steady Daylight" in yellow text. Below, promotional text announcing the book's release.

"Every memory feels alive here.” —Jehanne Dubrow

Happy #pubday to Joseph Bathanti! "Steady Daylight," out today, is an elegy and praise song to the now-vanished Pittsburgh neighborhood where the author grew up.

📚: https://bit.ly/steadydaylight

Cropped title page of "Lutheranism and American Culture: The Making of a Distinctive Faith in the Civil War Era," by Timothy D. Grundmeier, highlighting the tyopgraphy.

Cropped title page of "Called by Distances," by Biljana D. Obradović, featuring a monochrome abstract figure curled up.

Cropped title page of "Between Worlds," by John A. Broadus, highlighting the typography.

Cropped title page of "Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend," by Kenneth W. Noe, highlighting the typography.

Today marks the release of our tenth (!) book of the Spring '26 season! Here are some highlights from the beautiful (and distinct) typography of our first ten releases. 🔠