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The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing, Parts 1 & 2

The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing, Parts 1 & 2
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3 Works of Poetry Nominated for NAACP Images Awards


February 8, 2021
Three titles affiliated with Wesleyan were nominated for the 2021 NAACP Images Awards in the Outstanding Literary Work Poetry category.
According to the NAACP, Image Awards celebrate “the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts and those who promote social justice through their creative work.”
Among the five nominees is
The Age of Phillis (Wesleyan University Press, 2020) by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers; and
Un-American (Wesleyan University Press, 2020) by Hafizah Geter.
The collections by Murillo, Jeffers, and Geter also are longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. The PEN Open Book Award honors a work of fiction, literary nonfiction, biography/memoir, or poetry written by an author of color. The award was created by PEN America’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities. ....

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"The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing" Revisited

"The Unbearable Whiteness of Publishing" Revisited
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Wesleyan University Press Authors Longlisted for PEN Awards


December 23, 2020
Wesleyan University Press authors Hafizah Geter, Rae Armantrout, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers were recently longlisted for awards from PEN America.
Un-American, published by Wesleyan University Press, is longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award.
Hafizah Geter’s debut poetry collection, 
Un-American, is longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. The PEN Open Book Award honors a work of fiction, literary nonfiction, biography/memoir, or poetry written by an author of color. The award was created by PEN America’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities.
Geter’s collection moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes linguistic, cultural, racial, familial of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration. The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist Black man, Geter charts the history of a Black family of mixed ....

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