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We're celebrating Poetry Month on the Blog in April with selections from recent books in the Johns Hopkins: Poetry & Fiction series. First up, three poems by Wyatt Prunty from his new volume, Couldn't Prove, Had to Promise. Robert Hass calls Prunty "a classic...

Guest post by Peter Rutkoff A new exhibit, “One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Works,” opens today at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. We invited Peter Rutkoff, c0author of Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural Migrations...

Events and conferences will keep JHUP authors and staff extra busy this month. Zocalo Public Square hosts Arizona State President Michael Crow, author of Designing the New American University, for a discussion with New York Times columnist Frank Bruni and...

Guest post by Charles W. Mitchell “I had never witnessed such a scene as was now presented. The seats, aisles, galleries, and stage were filled with shouting, frenzied men and women, many running aimlessly over one another; a chaos of disorder beyond control.”...

Guest post by Sheri Chinen Biesen The Society For Cinema & Media Studies hosts Sheri Chinen Biesen for presentation on this topic at the 2015 SCMS annual conference. Jazz music flourished in “musical” noir films, which were distinctive for showing smoke...

The Association of College and Research Libraries meets in Portland later this week, and Project MUSE and JHUP cordially invite you to stop by booth #463 to check out our latest books, journals, and online publications. There will be a special opportunities to...

Guest post by Sara E. Davies The worst Ebola outbreak in history began in Guinea in December 2013 before spreading to Liberia and Sierra Leone in March 2014, with sporadic cases of infection in Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. At least 10,000 people have now died...

If you are heading to the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies meeting in Los Angeles, be sure to browse JHU Press books and journals in the exhibit area from March 19 to 22. Press authors will be stopping by, and we’ll offer a 30% discount...

Guest Post by Phil Walsh, Washington College A recent visitor to Washington College came away impressed with the vibrancy and potential of our campus. He appreciated the size and quality of our student body (about 1450 undergraduate students, drawn from all...

Gregory Britton, JHUP editorial director, notes that the publication of Designing the New American University comes at a time when higher education faces remarkable challenges. “As many states withdraw their support for public higher education and the rising...