Speak UP

A Gallery of Works to #ReadUP

 Poetry
& Fiction
T E X AS R E V I E W P R E S S

GHOST :: SEEDS
Sebastian Merrill

ISBN: 9781680033519

Incorporating elements of magical realism and myth,

Ghost :: Seeds puts a queer spin on the Persephone
myth to explore and trouble conceptions of gender and
identity, envisioning a dialogue between a trans speaker
and the “girl-ghost” of the self he left behind to become
the man he is today.

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 U N I V E R S I T Y O F N E B R AS K A P R E S S

FORGET I TOLD YOU THIS:

A NOVEL
Hilary Zaid
Timothy Schaffert & SJ Sindu, series editors

ISBN: 9781496235367
The Zero Street series will be committed to LGBTQ+
literary fiction, providing marginalized authors
opportunities in the trade fiction market.

Forget I Told You This is the story of a queer single

mother and aspiring artist who finds herself in the thick of
a plot to overthrow Big Data.

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L O U I S I AN A S T AT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

THE COURT OF NO RECORD:

POEMS
Jenny Molberg

ISBN: 9780807179024

Jenny Molberg's third collection of poetry, The Court of

No Record, serves as both evidence and testimony
against a legal system that often fails victims of physical
trauma and domestic abuse.

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NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS

THE PERFECT BASTARD:

POEMS
Quinn Carver Johnson

ISBN: 9780810146501

The Perfect Bastard by Quinn Carver Johnson

(they/them) follows its titular queer protagonist as they try
to succeed in wrestling. In the ring, they find they must
choose between person and persona, authenticity, and
humiliating hype, in order to discover themselves.

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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY PRESS

WRITING THE SELF-ELEGY:

THE PAST IS NOT
DISAPPEARING INK
Edited by Kara Dorris
Carol Berg, Lauren Berry, Sheila Black, Bruce Bond, Kristy Bowen, John
Chavez, Juliet Cook, Adam Crittenden, Jehanne Dubrow, Floydd Michael
Elliott, Rigoberto González, Stephanie Heit, Kasey Jueds, Anne Kaier,
Catherine Kyle, Teresa Leo, Denise Leto, Raymond Luczak, Jennifer
Maritza McCauley, Kyle McCord, Rusty Morrison, Naomi Ortiz, Carl
Phillips, Kevin Prufer, T.C. Tolbert, Tanaya Winder & Jane Wong,
contributors

ISBN: 9780809339068
The self-elegies included in this anthology mix
autobiography and poetics, blending craft with race,
gender, sexuality, ability and disability, and place—all the
private and public elements that build individual and
social identity.

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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS

THE WISCONSIN PRIZE FOR

POETRY IN TRANSLATION
University of Wisconsin Press & the Creative Writing Program at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison

ISBN: 978029934665, 9780299346942

This prize was founded in 2022 and aims to be one small

part of breaking down the language barriers that divide
us, making poetry written in other languages visible to a
wider public.

The inaugural winner (The Roof of the Whale Poems) and

runner-up (Psalms) are out this fall!

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U N I V E R S I T Y O F U T AH P R E S S

B/RDS
Béatrice Szymkowiak

ISBN: 9781647691158

B/RDS explores how we can reimagine our relationship to

environment through language. It traces the link between
past and present, and reveals the human-nature
disconnect at the root cause of environmental and social
problems, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 Politics
& Culture
U N I V E R S I T Y O F G U AM P R E S S

A MARIANAS MOSAIC:
SIGNS AND SHIFTS IN
CONTEMPORARY ISLAND
LIFE
Edited by Ajani Burrell with Kimberly Bunts-Anderson
Proa Publications Imprint
ISBN: 9781935198666

A Marianas Mosaic features authors in and of the

Mariana Islands, who have historically been
underrepresented in scholarly discourse. Voices range
from scholarly to poetic and discuss the social, political,
and cultural dynamics unfolding across the archipelago.

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 DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY

Edited by Michael Hardt
Stacy Lavin, managing editor

ISSN: 0038-2876

This bold, award-winning journal tackles urgent political,

cultural, and social questions from around the world, often
grown out of current academic debates. Each issue
features a second thematic section, “Against the Day,”
engaging a topic of contemporary political importance.

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MCGILL-QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY PRESS

DOING HARM: HOW THE

WORLD’S LARGEST
PSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSOCIATION LOST ITS WAY
IN THE WAR ON TERROR
Roy J. Eidelson

ISBN: 9780228018612

“Roy Eidelson exposes a dark chapter in the history of

American psychology in which some practitioners were
complicit with government authorities in abetting torture.
The story must be told if it is not to be repeated.”—
Brigadier General (Ret.) Stephen N. Xenakis

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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

TO BUILD A BLACK FUTURE:

THE RADICAL POLITICS OF
JOY, PAIN, AND CARE
Christopher Paul Harris

ISBN: 9780691219066

To Build a Black Future charts the trajectory of Black

politics from the Middle Passage to the present moment
and reveals how the radical politics of joy, pain, and care
can build a Black future that transcends ideology and
pushes the boundaries of our political imagination.

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BRISTOL UNIVERSITY PRESS/POLICY PRESS

WRONGED AND DANGEROUS:

VIRAL MASCULINITY AND THE
POPULIST PANDEMIC
Karen Lee Ashcraft

ISBN: 9781529221404

Wronged and Dangerous introduces “aggrieved

masculinity”—the conviction that manly rights have been
wronged—as a novel way to meet the threat of populism
by asking not what populism says, but how it spreads.
Everyone concerned with our future should be invested in
the issue.

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Religious Studies
C AT H O L I C U N I V E R S I T Y O F AM E R I C A P R E S S

JUSTICE AFTER WAR: JUS

POST BELLUM IN THE 21 ST
CENTURY
David Chiwon Kwon
Foreword by Kenneth R. Himes

ISBN: 9780813236513

Unfortunately, the issues of war and justice always seem

to be ones that we as a society need to deal with, and
this book looks at this issue from a range of perspectives.

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CORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

THE TILSON CASE: CHURCH

AND STATE IN 1950S
IRELAND
David Jameson

ISBN: 9781782055600

A fascinating historical study of an incident that had both

religious and legal ratifications with long-term effects for
Ireland

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GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY PRESS

PRECARIOUS: A SURVIVOR OF
CLERICAL ABUSE REMEMBERS
Patrick C. Goujon

ISBN: 9781647123819

The prevalence of abuse in the Catholic Church is well

known. Less so are the stories of the people most
impacted. In Precarious, Patrick Goujon shares his path
to healing following the sudden realization in adulthood of
what had been done to him as a child by a Catholic priest.

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I V P AC A D E M I C

TELL HER STORY: HOW

WOMEN LED, TAUGHT, AND
MINISTERED IN THE EARLY
CHURCH
Nijay K. Gupta

ISBN: 9781514000748

In Tell Her Story, Nijay Gupta shines a light on the

contributions of women leaders in the growth of the first
Christian churches. He sets the context by exploring the
lives of first-century women and addressing common
misconceptions about how women were treated at the
time.

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