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This year we celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday of Spiritus. It affords an opportunity to reflect on the journal’s rather remarkable trajectory, and to honor those who have contributed so much to its flourishing during its first quarter-century of publication...

On May 8th, I was honored to accept the PEN/Nora Magid Award for Magazine Editing award on behalf of Dr. Charles Rowell, the founder and longtime editor of Callaloo. Callaloo started with Dr. Rowell’s vision for Black literature, namely for the inclusion and...

To accompany our podcast interview with Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross about the forthcoming Poe Studies issue celebrating 20 years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle, we have assembled a Poe-focused...

To accompany our podcast interview with Callaloo executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres, we took a survey to collect some of the memorable entries Callaloo has published over the years. Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the...

April is National Poetry Month, and the Hopkins Press journals offer a bounty of verse.We publish many literary journals, a number of which are specifically devoted to the study of poets and their poetry. We recently acquired Victorian Poetry, and are excited...

The Autumn 2022 issue of Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory is a special issue devoted to the later work of American poet, essayist, and feminist Adrienne Rich. While Rich's early work garnered much literary attention, her...

April is National Poetry Month, a time dedicated to celebrating the art of poetry. Johns Hopkins University Press journals publish not only poems themselves, but also a wealth of scholarly analysis about poetry. To commemorate this annual celebration, we have...

April is National Poetry Month, an annual celebration established in 1996 by the Academy of American Poets to commemorate the impact and importance of poetry. Poems serve as a succinct medium for authors to convey complex ideas, emotions, and histories...

Measuring only 5 ½ x 9 7/16 inches, Giovanni Boldini’s 1879 painting Return of the Fishing Boats, Étretat, has long been one of my favorites at The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. Indeed, there are far greater paintings by Monet, Renoir, Degas, and...

In celebration of Black History Month 2021, JHU Press is spotlighting Black poetic voices. Many of the 99 scholarly journals published by JHU Press regularly feature original works of poetry. Below is a just small collection of the diverse voices that bring...