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The cover of Kubica's book is a photo of J.D. Salinger's mailbox, on an isolated road.

Letters to J. D. Salinger
Edited by
Chris Kubica and Will Hochman

The cover of Boyden's book of poems is illustrated with a howling coyote. But the coyote has a megaphone strapped to his throat, in a painful manner.

The Mouths of Grazing Things
Jennifer Boyden

Winner, The Brittingham Prize
in Poetry

The cover of Lanz's book of poems is a streakéd white, with three rows of cryptic objects, a closing eye, a collapsing umbrella, and a deer undergoing change.

The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House

Nick Lantz

Winner, The Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry

The cover of the Colescott book is illustrated with a detail from one of his prints: "Picasso at the Zoo."

The Prints of Warrington Colescott
A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948–2008 Mary Weaver Chapin Foreword by
Daniel T. Keegan

In Memoriam, Allen Fitchen
Director of the University of Wisconsin Press, 1982–1998

Photo of Allen FitchenOur friend and former colleague Allen Fitchen died on Christmas day, December 25, 2009. Allen was director of the University of Wisconsin Press from 1982 until his retirement in 1998. [more]

"Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist A People’s History of the United States became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts . . . died Wednesday [1-27-2010]." —Wisconsin State Journal

Zinn was a contributor to Democracy in Print edited by Matthew Rothchild.

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The cover of our Spring 2010 catalog features a photo of a tent in Antarctica. Multicolored prayer flags drap the pinkish tent, and a cello sits outside in the frigid air.

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Our Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry are awarded annually. For more information and how to enter: Poetry contest information

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