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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · 21d

📚 Celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth with Dolores Huerta Stands Strong!

This inspiring biography for young readers honors a fearless activist who fought for justice with the rallying cry “Sí, se puede!” 💪

www.ohioswallow.com/978082142330...

#DoloresHuerta #YoungReaders #SíSePuede

Dolores Huerta Stands Strong: The Woman Who Demanded Justice book cover shows an illustration of Dolores Huerta wearing brown pants and a white shirt, holding a sign above her head that reads HUELGA (STRIKE) against a sky-blue background with radiant gray beams fanning out from the left. The title, author's name, and "Biographies for Young Readers" are printed alongside the illustration.

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · 23d

📘 “The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.” — James Madison

#ConstitutionDay reminds us of the enduring power of dialogue, debate, and vision.

Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 offers a firsthand look: www.ohioswallow.com/978082140765...

#JamesMadison

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Sep 3

Julie K. Rubini's children's bio "Virginia Hamilton: America’s Storyteller" has been selected by the Ohio Center for the Book for the Great Reads from Great Places program THIS WEEKEND at The Library of Congress National Book Festival 2025!

bit.ly/VirginiaHami...

#NatBookFest #VirginiaHamilton

Book cover showing a photograph of Virginia Hamilton smiling and wearing a plaid jacket.

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Aug 28

Author Kathleen Smythe packed the house Monday at Joseph-Beth Books, sharing stories from Bicycling Through Paradise—a guide to cycling tours of Cincinnati’s most fascinating historical sites.

You can still grab a copy and start your own journey through the Queen City’s past. bit.ly/BikeParadise

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

🚴‍♀️ Like cycling and local history? Join authors Kathleen Smythe & Chris Hanlin for a discussion and signing of Bicycling through Paradise: Historical Tours Around Cincinnati.

📅 Aug 25 | 7 PM
📍 Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati, OH
🔗 Event info: bit.ly/BikeCincy

#Cycling #Books #CincinnatiEvents

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Aug 15

The trippiest road trip novel of all somehow didn't make this list of the best in the genre— www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b... —but lucky for you, we have copies of the counterculture classic DIVINE RIGHT'S TRIP by Gurney Norman:
www.ohioswallow.com/978091778842...

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Aug 14

🇺🇸 Today we honor the bravery and brilliance of the Navajo Code Talkers.
Introduce young readers to their legacy with Thomas H. Begay and the Navajo Code Talkers, a powerful middle-grade biography.
📘 Learn more: bit.ly/Begay
#NavajoCodeTalkersDay #MiddleGradeBooks #IndigenousHistory #CodeTalkers

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Aug 4

Congratulations to Kimberly Cleveland, author of Africanfuturism, winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award for the best first scholarly monograph in science fiction! www.ohioswallow.com/978082141148...

@sfrareview.bsky.social
#sciencefiction
#scifi
#africanfuturism

Africanfuturism

In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from t...

www.ohioswallow.com

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Jul 30

‪"The historian Anna Müller has achieved something remarkable in her account of the life of Tonia Lechtman." Sean Martin reviews "An Ordinary Life? The Journeys of Tonia Lechtman" @ohiounivpress.bsky.social‬ in Polish American Studies Vol. 82, No. 1. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas/arti...

Cover of Polish American Studies, Vol. 82, No. 1, Spring 2025
White and red color block background with photo: St. Peter and Paul Church, formerly St. Stanislaus Kostka, the first Polish church in the Pacific Northwest, Tacoma, WA.

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The Journal of African History @thejah.bsky.social · Jul 10

In our latest #OA Featured Review, Khwezi Mkhize explores “Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala” (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) by Joel Cabrita:

bit.ly/4eNh9Iq

#SouthAfrica #biography #arts #apartheid

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Jul 30

We're delighted to share this breathtaking essay by poet Han Vanderhart, author of the prizewinning book, Larks: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...

@hanvanderhart.bsky.social @poetryfoundation.bsky.social

Larks book cover with a black-and-white photograph of a stack of cameras on a wooden table resting on a plank wood floor. A gauzy curtain wafts in from the right. The image is overlaid with the following text: Larks / Poems / Han Vanderhart / Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize | Selected by Chanda Feldman.

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Jul 10

We're moving to a smaller office, and that means free books for you! Visit Alden Library 101 on Monday, July 14, from 9 am to 4 pm. We have fiction, poetry, children's books, history, African studies, Appalachian studies, and more!

@aldenlibdigital.bsky.social @ohiouniversity.bsky.social

Piles of books with text overlay: Free Books, Monday, July 14, 9 am–4pm, Alden 101

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Jul 8

Join us at the FREE Columbus Book Festival this weekend! Check out our titles and score some awesome OHIO swag at booth 48. Plus, Columbus author Andrew Welsh-Huggins will be in our booth Saturday, 11–noon. If you haven't read one of his Andy Hayes Mysteries, you're missing out. See you there!

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · May 22

We're delighted that Katie Berta's RETRIBUTION FORTHCOMING is a longlisted finalist for the 2024 Julie Suk Award for the best poetry book published by a literary press! Get your copy today for 40% off with code SUN at www.ohioswallow.com/978082141150...

#poetry

Book cover shows title and author's name overlaid on a black-and-white photograph of a desert landscape with scrub and cacti. Additional text: "Winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, selected by Claire Wahmanholm."

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Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · May 18

Special episode with GUEST HOST @amorak.bsky.social interviewing Han about Larks (@ohiounivpress.bsky.social) 📚💙

Of second books, writing trauma, line breaks versus enjambment, Marianne Moore, and more!

Listen here: share.transistor.fm/s/35d06173

Episode 72: Han VanderHart (Of Larks, Genealogy and Truth as a Poetics, and the Line) with Guest Host Amorak Huey

Han VanderHart, author of Larks (OHU, 2025) Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere Purchase: Larks (Ohio University Press, 2025) Read: “Larks” at Poetry Daily Han VanderHart i…

ofpoetrypodcast.com

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · May 20

With summer nearly here, we’ve got reading on our minds and a special online sale to offer: From May 20 to June 8, use promo code SUN at ohioswallow.com to get 40% off ALL books. Order more than $30 and get free U.S. shipping. Happy reading! #ReadUP #booksale

A beach scene with a pile of books in the sand, overlaid with text about the sale details.

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · May 15

"Steele’s work is in a category apart, however. No serious poet can afford to ignore it, and in fact few have." A wonderful review of Timothy Steele's All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing in @plough.bsky.social: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
#poetrycommunity

To Rhyme Is Human

A poet reviews three essential guides to the history and craft of writing poetry in English, which point to a bright future for versification.

www.plough.com

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · May 2

Dan Gearino—author of Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture—appears in a new documentary showing tomorrow at 4:30 at the Gateway Film Center in Columbus! www.dailymotion.com/video/x9h713m
Learn more about Dan's book here: www.ohioswallow.com/978080401213...

#comicbooks

Shopping for Superman - Official Trailer

Dailymotion video by FilmAffinity

www.dailymotion.com

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Apr 25

"Should be read by scholars and practitioners alike." Malaria on the Move examines how migration and travel influence the risk of malaria and reaffirms the need to take into consideration local socioeconomic factors in designing and implementing interventions. #WorldMalariaDay #WorldMalariaDay2025

Malaria on the Move book cover: Malaria on the Move: Rural Communities and Public Health in Zimbabwe, 1890–2015. Kundai Manamere. Graphic showing a mosquito and other biological drawings.

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Apr 23

Congratulations to Mamie Morgan, winner of the 2025 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize for MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S TOAST!

Thank you to all the wonderful writers who entered this year's contest. We're currently accepting submissions for the 2026 contest. Visit www.ohioswallow.com/poetry-prize/ to learn more.

Graphic with text: Congrats, Mamie! Midsummer Night's Toast by Mamie Morgan. Winner of the 2025 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Graphic includes a black-and-white photo of Mamie Morgan, a light-skinned woman with long light colored hair, seated wearing a button-up shirt and a wide-brimmed hat.

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Apr 16

Student Appreciation Lunch 2025 ⭐️📖

Congrats to our three seniors graduating in May!
Jenna Reitz | Publicity Assistant
Nivi Chawda | Book Design & Publication Assisant
Simone Tillman | Editorial Assistant

We wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors!
#ohiouniversitypress

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Apr 11

🌟 Staff Picks! 🌟

Sally shares their favorite OU Press read: Evidence of My Existence by Jim Lo Scalzo

From a leper colony in India to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan… Scalzo tells a riveting story of seventeen years spent racing from one photo assignment to the next.

📖 ohioswallow.com

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Apr 11

Congratulations, HPP Finalists! 💐⭐️

Here is a list of the finalists for the 2025 Hollis Poetry Prize contest. Stay tuned for an announcement of the winner next week!

To learn more about the Poetry Prize and submit your application for the 2026 contest visit www.ohioswallow.com/poetry-prize/

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Apr 11

Bestseller Feature! 🍄

Appalachian Mushrooms
By Walter E. Sturgeon

“This guide is destined to be an indispensable authority on the subject for everyone from beginning hobbyists to trained experts, throughout Appalachia and beyond.”

Learn more at ohioswallow.com.
#appalachia #mushrooms

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Ohio University Press @ohiounivpress.bsky.social · Apr 9

Tonight! The annual Virtual Roethke Scholars series features contributors to A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke and is organized by editor William Barillas.

www.friendsofroethke.org/events/noe-d...

#NationalPoetryMonth

"Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale — Friends of Roethke Foundation

Please join us for writers Marcia Noe and Laura Duncan’s talk on Theodore Roethke's poem "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale.  The annual Virtual Roethke...

www.friendsofroethke.org

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