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Latest Poetry Center Publications Receive National Acclaim

The Cleveland State University Poetry Center released their newest catalog of books this September and their authors have been “cleaning up” with a host of national profiles and award selections.

All five released books have appeared on Small Press Distribution’s Bestseller List in their first month of publication. Oliver Baez Bendof’s Advantages of Being Evergreen was number one on the poetry list. In addition:

Anne Lesley Selecer’s debut collection of poetry, Sun Cycle, was reviewed by Heavy Feathers Review.

Oliver Baez Bendof’s Advantages of Being Evergreen has been reviewed or featured in Ms. Magazine, Rolling Stone, Poets & Writers, Essay Daily, TC Tolbert’s Trans/Nonbinary Poetry Resource List, The Poetry Question, the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center blog, Tone Madison, Boricua Reads, NYU’s Skirball series, and Poetry Daily.

Conor Bracken’s translation of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Scorpionic Sun has been profiled by Bomb, Entropy, The Kenyon Review, and Poetry Northwest.

Amy Long’s book of essays, Codependence, has been featured in The Millions, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, DIAGRAM, Magnify, The Ish podcast, Heavy Feather Review, Fiction Points, and Pulpmouth.

Russell Atkins’s World’d Too Much has been featured in the Plain Dealer, Cleveland Scene and Entropy, and was selected as a Small Press Distribution “Handpicked” book. Atkins was also celebrated in a featured Cleveland Book Week event, in collaboration with the Cleveland Foundation and CSU, at the Karamu House.

All five authors will visit CSU as part of this year’s Lighthouse Reading Series, where they will discuss their latest works and their creative process.

The CSU Poetry Center was established in 1962, and is a national non-profit independent press under the auspices of the Cleveland State University Department of English. It has published over 200 rangy, joyful, profound, astonishing, complicated, surprising and aesthetically diverse collections of contemporary poetry and prose by established and emerging authors. It also serves as an educational resource for undergraduate and graduate students by providing assistantship and internship opportunities as well as involving students in the editorial and production aspects of literary publishing.