A very special thank you to all the UPP authors and poets who stopped by our booth at AWP 2015 in Minneapolis. It was great to see everyone! Those in attendance included: Beth Bachmann, Christopher Bakken, Angela Ball, Quan Barry, Jan Beatty, Robin Becker, Richard Blanco, Mark Cox, Chard deNiord, Sharon Dolin, David Ebenbach, Ross Gay, Barbara Hamby, Nathalie Handal, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Kirsten Kaschock, Julia Kasdorf, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Dore Kiesselbach, Rickey Laurentiis, Nate Marshall, Jeffrey McDaniel, Richard Michelson, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Paisley Rekdal, J. Allyn Rosser, David Roderick, Ilyana Rocha, Glenn Shaheen, Anthony…

Donna Drucker’s book, The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge is featured in Times Literary Supplement (TLS). (Un)natural Sex By Ivan Crozier | March 18, 2015 Featured on The Times Literary Supplement Kinsey’s life has become more widely known since the publication of a biography by James Jones (1997), and, in 2004, the novel The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle as well as a biopic starring Liam Neeson. Having completed his doctorate on gall wasps, Kinsey found himself in charge of a sexual education class for married students at Indiana University. A lack of sound information led…

The Performance It’s not right that she should do this to her body as she speaks, but it’s the only way we can understand her. We who weren’t raised on sand and cherry-pits. Whose stepfathers held their tempers. The South is a mean place we forget about. The windows boarded up all over town. She says, dogs chased her down the tar- soaked road like devils. Each dog with three heads, three tails. She says, we might’ve mocked her story, but never now. First, she strikes nails against her chest like matches. Then, when we think we can’t take more…