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Wicked Flesh—Paperback Coming Soon!
Jessica Marie Johnson’s award-winning and groundbreaking book Wicked Flesh is coming in paperback from Penn Press this fall! Unearthing personal stories from the archive, Wicked Flesh shows how black women used intimacy and kinship to redefine freedom in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
The Difference Is Spreading—Out Now!
Since its inception in 2012, the hugely successful online introduction to modern poetry known as ModPo has engaged some 415,000 readers, listeners, teachers, and poets. In The Difference Is Spreading, ModPo’s Al Filreis and Anna Strong Safford have invited fifty poets to select and comment upon a poem by another writer.
- An Excerpt From The Kingdom and the Republic in Honor of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, and in commemoration, we're sharing an excerpt from the Introduction to The Kingdom and… Read More
- Congratulations to This Year's Penn Press-Affiliated Guggenheim Fellows! The 2022 Guggenheim Fellows have been announced, and several Penn Press authors or affiliates have received this honor! Please join us in… Read More
- Women Healers: Always Essential Medical Workers In honor of Women's History Month, Penn Press is excited to share a new blog post from Susan Brandt, author of Women… Read More
- Urvashi Chakravarty at the University of Toronto Friday. May 20, 2022 | 4:00 pm Virtual event Read More
- Kateřina Čapková and Hillel J. Kieval at the Society of the History of Czechoslovak Jews Tuesday. May 24, 2022 | 6:30 pm In-person event Read More
- Aaron Sullivan at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia Thursday. June 2, 2022 | 6:00 pm Virtual event Read More
