Cover of "Café Lafitte in Exile" along with authors Frank Perez and Jeffrey Palmquist.
Tomorrow at 6 p.m. CST, join Frank Perez and Jeffrey Palmquist as they present their new book, "Café Lafitte in Exile," for the Friends of the Cabildo Second Thursday Lecture Series. The lecture will be held on Zoom, and registration is required.
📝 Register here: https://bit.ly/4lp6iri
Many, many thanks to @uwiscpress.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social & @southernreview.bsky.social #AWP2026 #AWP26
Check out Jack Love's review of Earl J. Hess's "Civil War Cavalry: Waging Mounted Warfare in Nineteenth-Century America," published in 2025 by @lsupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #animalhist #militaryhist🐎
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@lsupress.bsky.social recently launched a Substack where press authors are invited to write a blog on the topic of their choice as it relates to their book.
So I wrote about interacting with Zappa fans, & the challenges of discussing Frank's political legacy.
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In our March blog post, Bradley Morgan takes on the complicated political legacy of music legend Frank Zappa. Read it here: https://bit.ly/4ruEoLX
Out now: "Café Lafitte in Exile," the fascinating story of queer New Orleans through the lens of its most legendary gay bar. Happy #pubday to Frank Perez and Jeffrey Palmquist!
📚: https://bit.ly/queerneworleans
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)
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
"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!
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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!
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.
@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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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: *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
@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-...
"[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
"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.
