The New York Times features Power on the Hudson by Robert Lifset in its article about a landmark case of ecology vs. energy production at Storm King Mountain. How a Hudson Highlands Mountain Shaped Tussles Over Energy and the Environment By Andrew C. Revkin |  April 14, 2015 Remembering Storm King | Lecture by Robert D. Lifset In the time that I have I want to think about three questions. First, why are we here? What precisely happened in the Hudson River valley in the 1960s and ‘70s? What was the nature of this environmental struggle? Second, why did it happen?…

Barbara Hamby’s collection On the Street of Divine Love, is the silver winner in the poetry category of the 2014 Florida Book Awards. Sharon Crowley, who has published two prize-winning books with the University of Pittsburgh Press, has been honored with the 2015 CCCC Exemplar Award, the most prestigious honor bestowed by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.  

Chard deNiord, Interstate Lynn Emanuel, The Nerve of It—Poems Selected and New Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn Circe Maia and Jesse Lee Kercheval, translator, The Invisible Bridge/El Puente Invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia Nathaniel Marshall, Wild Hundreds Iliana Rocha, Karankawa Ronald Wallace, For Dear Life.    

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…