Category: Literature

Poets and children's literature aficionados no doubt know that celebrated American writer X.J. Kennedy turned 83 this week.  A textbook and children's lit author, poet, teacher, and translator, Kennedy has earned many literary awards throughout his distinguished career, from the 1961 Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets (now known as the James Laughlin Award) and the Los Angeles…

Poets and children's literature aficionados no doubt know that celebrated American writer X.J. Kennedy turned 83 this week.  A textbook and children's lit author, poet, teacher, and translator, Kennedy has earned many literary awards throughout his distinguished career, from the 1961 Lamont Award from the Academy of American Poets (now known as the James Laughlin Award) and the Los Angeles…

New to Hit the Shelves Parrots: The Animal Answer Guide : Have you ever wondered what parrots eat in the wild? Or why so many species live in the Amazon? Glorious photographs and accurate answers to every question about parrots make this a must-have for any bird lover. Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America :…

New to Hit the Shelves Parrots: The Animal Answer Guide : Have you ever wondered what parrots eat in the wild? Or why so many species live in the Amazon? Glorious photographs and accurate answers to every question about parrots make this a must-have for any bird lover. Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America :…

By Peter Filkins Randall Jarrell famously said that writing poetry was like walking across an open field waiting to be struck by lightning. In reverse fashion, Robert Frost’s dictum, “No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader,” makes the same point about the need for the poet to be surprised by his own…

JHU Press Welcomes Three New Journals The Journals Division will add three new journals to its collection later this year, announced Journals Publisher Bill Breichner. This brings the total number of journals published by the JHU Press to 78. The three new titles will be The CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English…

While all of us here at the Press love the books and journals we publish, we do save time to enjoy books from other publishers. As the weather warms up and so many of us get the itch to just sit outside and read, we thought we’d share the books we are reading or recently…

Stars Wars fanatics the world over, Mobtown not excluded, celebrated May the 4th be with You, I'll Have Another is headed to Baltimore for the second leg of the Triple Crown, and the Baltimore Orioles swept the Boston Red Sox after a marathon 17-inning game. We've been busy at the Press, too. Read on for…

No roaring lions (only polar bears) heralded the end of our mild winter here in Baltimore. Read on to see what we've been up to, who we've been meeting (can anyone say James Franco?), and what's in the works at the JHU Press. Journals News In an effort to help raise awareness about health issues…

Guest post by Christopher N. Phillips What place does storytelling have in literary history today?  I didn’t expect this to be a central question in my book, Epic in American Culture, but the more I explored the topic, the more I realized that storytelling caused many of the problems I faced in this project—and story…