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Poem of the Week: “A Few Helpful Hints” by Peter Sirr
Tell them what you like. Tell them
the world is flat and when you get to the edge you fall
into the usual darkness, hell if you like
but anywhere will do…
The WFU Press Holiday Sale & Gift-Giving Guide
Wake Forest University Press is thankful for all of you every day, but especially today. To express our gratitude, we’re once again running a Holiday Sale through the end of the year. All you have to do is enter the code (WFUP40) at the checkout and the discount will automatically apply itself. This sale includes…
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “Poem in Homage to Built Things in Three Dimensions” by Leontia Flynn
Sunlight, yellow, on an upright gable
standing by waste-ground, a bright autumn sky
behind it and a foreground of low rubble,
transforms place into geometry—
Poem of the Week: “It’s easy to talk, and writing words on the page” by Philippe Jaccottet
It’s easy to talk, and writing words on the page
doesn’t involve much risk as a general rule:
You might as well be knitting late at night
in a warm room, in a soft, treacherous light…
Poem of the Week: “Noon at St. Michael’s” by Derek Mahon
Nurses and nuns—
their sails whiter than those
of the yachts in the bay, they come and go
on winged feet, most of them, or in ‘sensible’ shoes.
Poem of the Week: “Turn Again” by Ciaran Carson
There is a map of the city which shows the bridge that was never built.
A map which shows the bridge that collapsed; the streets that never existed.
Ciaran Carson, 1948–2019
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of one of our most esteemed poets, Ciaran Carson. Ciaran had been with us from the beginning, and we will miss him. Our hearts go out to his wife and children, Deirdre, Manus, Gerard, and Mary.
Continue ReadingPublication Day for FROM THERE TO HERE
Starting with his 1976 publication of THE NEW ESTATE and finishing with the call-and-response translation work in FROM ELSEWHERE (2014), Carson guides us through his imaginative landscape in a new selection that includes poems from thirteen volumes written over nearly forty years.
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “The Girl Who Turned into a Sunflower” by Medbh McGuckian
Her Muse means water, the moisture on the banks,
which can be awakened by a drop of oil.
Welcome WFU Press Interns!
The fall semester at Wake Forest is in full swing, a time of year we welcome heartily because it means we benefit from the new energy of our student interns as they begin their work with us. We have two returnees from last year and three new interns, all of whom have the gumption and…
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