Press Releases

2/14/08 - The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved marks Black History Month

The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is marking Black History Month with the publication of its February issue. Among the many articles is one that reports on a study exploring why low-income and minority women are less likely than other women to be screened for breast and cervical cancer at an early stage in the cancer's growth. Patricia Isabel Documet, M.D., Ph.D., the lead researcher, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. She is interviewed by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Jackie Judd.

Listen to the interview online or download the podcast at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/closerlook/01may07.

1/30/08 - The Hopkin's Review featured on WYPR
The Hopkin's Review was featured on WYPR 88.1's Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast. Susan McCallum-Smith reviews the first edition (Winter, 2008) of the resurrected literary quarterly journal The Hopkins Review, a collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and the Johns Hopkins University Press. McCallum-Smith raved, "Baltimore finally has a magazine that proves it does read, and it reads way, way beyond the 3rd grade level." For more information and to hear the audio from the show visit WYPR's Website For more information on the journal visit The Hopkin's Review

12/20/07 - The Johns Hopkins University Press Journals to be present at Annual AWP Conference January 30 - February 2
The Johns Hopkins University Press is to have a presence at the Annual AWP Conference from January 30 - February 2. The Annual Conference typically features 300 presentations: readings, lectures, panel discussions, and Forums plus hundreds of book signings, receptions, dances, and informal gatherings. The conference attracts more than 5,000 attendees and more than 400 publishers.

In 2008, AWP will bring its annual conference and bookfair to New York City for the first time in the organization's 40-year history. Held between January 30 and February 2, 2008 at the Hilton New York, they expect the 2008 conference will be the most popular conference ever.

2008 Keynote speaker is John Irving. 2008 Featured Presenters include: Yusef Komunyakaa, Sharon Olds, E.L. Doctorow, Louise Glück, Galway Kinnell, A.S. Byatt, Mark Strand, James Tate, Robert Pinsky, Natasha Trethewey, Carolyn Forché, Ha Jin, Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Billy Collins, Frank McCourt, Sonia Sanchez, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Lopate, Amy Hempel, Peter Cameron, Charles Simic, Martin Amis, Alan Cheuse, Edwidge Danticat, and William Kennedy.

11/05/07 - The Lion and the Unicorn Announce the Third Annual Award for Excellence in North American Poetry
The Johns Hopkins University Press is pleased to announce that the winner of the third annual Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry is JonArno Lawson, for Black Stars in a White Night Sky. Illus. Sherwin Tjia. (Toronto: Pedlar Press, 2006). The honor books are, in alphabetical order: Jorge Argueta. Talking with Mother Earth/Hablando con Madre Tierra. Illus. Lucía Angela Pérez. (Toronto: Groundwood/House of Anansi, 2006); Helen Frost. The Braid. (New York: Frances Foster/Farrar Straus: 2006); Walter Dean Myers. Jazz. Illus. Christopher Myers (New York: Holiday House, 2006) and Walter Dean Myers. Street Love (New York: Amistad/HarperTempest, 2006). This year’s judges were Angela Sorby, Joseph T. Thomas Jr., and Richard Flynn. Their essay about the winners and, more inclusively, about the year’s work in poetry for children, “Messages in a Bottle,” will be published in the September 2007 issue of The Lion and the Unicorn. View Winning Essay Here.

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11/01/07 - The Johns Hopkins University Press Perspectives in Biology and Medicine quoted on CNN.com
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine quoted on CNN.com in "Near Death Experiences: Hard to forget or explain story. Click Here to view the article.

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10/02/07 - A Literary Journal Is Reborn- Quarterly Hopkin's Review Will Launch This Month
Dormant for more than five decades, The Hopkins Review makes a triumphant return to the literary landscape this fall. The original Hopkins Review was launched in 1947 by the Writing Seminars, then called the Department of Writing, Speech and Drama. The literary magazine back then was a thin paperback volume that sold for 25 cents a copy. Acclaimed novelist and short-story writer John Barth, a Writing Seminars alumnus and later a JHU faculty member, published his first story in its pages, which also included the works of such celebrated poets as Richard Wilbur and E.E. Cummings. Click Here to see the Press Release.

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09/14/07 - The Johns Hopkins University Press Journal of Women's History Wins Letitia Woods Brown Memorial for Article
The Johns Hopkins University Press is pleased to announce that the "The History of Woman and Slavery: Considering the Impact of *Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South* on the Twentieth Anniversary of Its Publication," will be awarded the 2007 Letitia Woods Brown Article prize for the best article on black women's history. Click here to see the press release.

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Announcements

2/14/2006 - NYTimes.com
"At the Pharmacy: Prescription Labels Often Pose Language Barrier."
Writing in The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, researchers say that to reduce the risk of a medication mistake, more needs to be done to make sure Spanish-speaking patients understand how they are supposed to take their prescriptions. Click here to read the complete story.

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