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Louisiana's premier academic publisher, established in 1935. #lsupress

@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 2:00 PM

Robert Mann, author "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis and the Biography of a Song," "Kingfish U: Huey Long and LSU," and many other books on U.S. and Louisiana political history, was a guest on First Chapter, the new book show by Louisiana First News: https://bit.ly/4ybhix6

@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:52 PM

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@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:25 PM

In honor of #bannedbooksweek, here is "Banned Books," by Nâzım Hikmet, translated by Zoë Mjøen on World Literature Today: https://bit.ly/4hOE6Nh

"Banned Books" is from Ilan Stavans's upcoming "Fictional Translations," which features translations of fictional poems by fictional translators.

@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 5:15 PM

For our latest blog post, Chase Cormier discusses the facts and anecdotes that inspired "Boucherie," but didn’t make the final cut.

Read it on our Substack, and don’t forget to attend the virtual book launch for "Boucherie" next Thursday at 2 p.m. CDT! https://bit.ly/47BRVK6

Close-up of hands holding several large smoked meat ribs, overlaid with the text: Chewing the Fat, A blog post by Chase Cormier, author of "Boucherie"

@mngupbooks.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:30 AMReposted by @lsupress.bsky.social

A sequence in verse and prose, a mythic foundation to tell and review what it is like to be a deracinated person and poet today, spending much of his time away from his native Ireland in the U.S

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@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 5:00 PM

Out today: Rodney Jones's "The Body and the End of Time." Drawing from Whitman, Blake, and experience, this collection represents the distilled evolution of one of today's most fluent, generous, and embracing voices in American poetry.

Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/bodyendtime

The book cover of "The Body and the End of Time: Poems Selected & New, 1985–2025," featuring light blue, bold text against a dark blue background.

@simeonberry.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 12:19 PMReposted by @lsupress.bsky.social

“His hymns were vinegar. / A hare’s pelt and stiff / skeleton served as his crossed Christ. // The Bishop of Sinister Ways blessed him. / Ten wizards dressed him in umber.” —R. T. Smith, “The Convert” @lsupress.bsky.social

THE CONVERT. No babe in the barn, Gristle rose in mannequin form from the Well of the Bitter, built his church of crickets, whin, and owl bones. The bog churned his black butter. The crow rose from a rickle of sticks and tendrils to strew a rosary and a story. His hymns were vinegar. A hare’s pelt and stiff skeleton served as his crossed Christ. The Bishop of Sinister Ways blessed him. Ten wizards dressed him in umber. Gristle’s antic Gospel of Loss would shed its text in any storm.

What was left but regrets? He spoke to the vegetation. The fuchsia bush burned unconsumed. The one extant portrait smudged onto shingle gives us the sea frozen green in his single eye, a hook nose, weasel grin, irony in the cut of his bones. He slicked wattle with shit and spittle, ate the rooks raw, hung close to the weather’s hinge. He rocked the goblin cradle and lullabied the poppet. Mockery was his winter defense. His shins bled in penance for something he could never name. His teeth were cold as sleet, his sausage of a swollen tongue

saying love a hundred ways. The shunned monk shocked by Druid dolmens, he fasted, honed his nightdreams toward the skull’s quick miracles, prophets nameless on the desert, a vision of Fire Christ wise in the finch’s perfected eye. He was slim as a skittle, a sinew in wind, the harp with one string, the stolen song. He could rend iron or the silver dove, but the shriving never rendered him whole. “Love,” he always chanted, “twisted, holy love.” And so St. Gristle came at last to know the barrens of Ireland. R. T. Smith

@robmclennan.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 12:36 PMReposted by @lsupress.bsky.social

Tuesday poem #705 : Dan Beachy-Quick : Variation on a Theme / @lsupress.bsky.social ;
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@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:10 PM

October's events are up! On October 22, Rodney Jones will discuss "The Body and the End of Time," a selection of poems from one of the most fluent, generous, and embracing voices in American poetry.

The book talk will be followed by a live, moderated Q&A.

A promotional photo for the book launch for The Body and the End of Time, featuring geometric shapes, one of which is filled with an excerpt of a poem.

Text: The Body and the End of Time: Poems Selected and New, 1985–2025. October 22 @ 2 p.m. CDT. / 3 p.m. EDT.

The book cover of "The Body and the End of Time," featuring light blue text against on a dark blue background.

@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:05 PM

October's events are up! On October 15, Chase Cormier will discuss "Boucherie." Drawing on ethnography, oral history, and memoir, "Boucherie" traces the long evolution of the Louisiana boucherie. 🐖

The book talk will be followed by a live, moderated Q&A.

A promotional photo for a book launch featuring a portrait of Chase Cormier.

Text: Boucherie. Louisiana True Series. October 15 @ 2 p.m. CDT. / 3 p.m. EDT.

The book cover of "Boucherie," featuring an illustration of a pig with butchery cuts labeled, set against a black background.

@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 5:00 PM

October's events are up! On October 8, Greg Delanty will talk about his new collection, "Sweeney Now," a playful interpretation of a middle Irish poem in which a man believes he has turned into a bird.

The book talk will be followed by a live, moderated Q&A.

A promotional photo for a book launch featuring a portrait of Greg Delanty holding a book with a parrot perched on his shoulder.

Text: Sweeney Now. From the author of The Professor of Forgetting. October 8 @ 2 p.m. CDT.

The book cover of "Sweeney Now," featuring a close-up of a colorful parrot perched next to an open book with a blurred bookshelf background.

@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 5:25 PM

Sean Michael Chick reviewed "A Desperate Fight: The Lives of Louisiana’s Confederate Soldiers," by Henry B. Motty, for Emerging Civil War: https://bit.ly/4hnQk0m

@lsupress.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 11:00 AM

Doug Graham explored the history that inspired "Death or Victory: The Louisiana Native Guard and the Black Military’s Significance in the Civil War,” by A.J. Cade, for TheAdvocate.com: https://bit.ly/4hmW3DG

@lsupress.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 2:40 PM

Joyce Catol Oates fan? Check out our latest release in literary studies: "Like Hunger: Joyce Carol Oates and the Need to Believe," out today! https://bit.ly/like-hunger

"Like Hunger" draws on works throughout Oates’s six-decade career to examine her characters' search for faith.

The book cover for "Like Hunger," featuring a black background with white and blue text, and a triangular sky section featuring clouds.

@lsupress.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 5:34 PM

Check out the latest episode of The Slowdown, which features a poem from "Candy"! bit.ly/candypoems

@lsupress.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 2:55 PM

Carin Peller-Semmens wrote a thorough review of "Fractured Freedoms" for the September issue of the American Historical Association's American Historical Review: https://bit.ly/4jlLIJd

To the right, the book cover of "Fractured Freedoms," featuring a torn map of Central Louisiana and large, white text. To the left, this quote: "A well-researched and thought-provoking study at the parish level into the impact of Reconstruction-era politics and political ideology." —Carin Peller-Semmens, American Historical Review

@lsupress.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 2:16 PM

"That kind of desire.
That readiness for satisfaction.
To be wrung out, my sodden heart,
by any visible thing."

Today on Poetry Daily: "Paestum," by Christopher Bakken, from his LSU Press collection, "Driving the Beast: Poems."

🖊️ https://poems.com/poem/paestum/

@christopherbakken.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 11:03 AMReposted by @lsupress.bsky.social

Thanks to Poetry Daily for featuring my poem "Paestum" today

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@lsupress.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 4:15 PM

In 1860, Lincoln won the presidency with less than 40% of the popular vote. How did he do it?

That's the subject of "How Lincoln Won," a new book by political scientists Darin DeWitt and the late Thomas Schwartz.

Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/howlincolnwon

The book cover of "How Lincoln Won," featuring a black and white portrait of Abraham Lincoln with stars and red border accents.

@lsupress.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 5:45 PM

Congrats to Bridget Bennett! "Antislavery in the Dissenting Atlantic" has won the American Studies Network Prize from the European Association for American Studies, and was awarded an honorable mention for the British Association for American Studies Book Prize: https://bit.ly/4AmbQKc

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