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Superman’s Earthly Birthplace? It’s Cleveland, and It’s Embracing Its Hero.

"The birthplace of Superman is having, well, a super year." It's great seeing Cleveland in national headlines—and if you're interested in learning more about the city, KSUP has plenty of books worth reading, including John Grabowski and Lauren Pacini's "Cleveland A to Z."

July news and reviews Kent State University Press is featured alongside the publisher Gray & Company in a profile from Cleveland Magazine—”From the Rust Belt to the Bookshelf: How Two Cleveland Presses Champio…

Congrats to the many KSUP authors who appear in our July roundup of news and reviews, including @newsguy.bsky.social, @chrisbriem.bsky.social, @alas-not-me.bsky.social, and more. Another big month for books!

Rounders EPISODE 108 PREVIEW INSIDE THE BOSTON BRAVES MIRACLE 1914 SEASON B DEADBEATS, DEAD BALLS, AND THE 1914 BOSTON BRAVES MARTIN H. BUSH with book cover and four baseball players

More podcast news! At @rounderspodcast.bsky.social, KSUP author Martin Bush talks “Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves.”

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CITY & CAST Pittsburgh Should Pittsburgh & Cleveland Be Friends? by City Cast Pittsburgh Orange background, skyline with bridges

What can Cleveland and Pittsburgh learn from each other? What would the two cities gain by teaming up as Cleveburgh?

In a new podcast, @chrisbriem.bsky.social—author of our forthcoming book “Beyond Steel”—considers the relationship between two iconic Rust Belt cities:

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Photos of Mac's Backs with awning and three books covers face out, with text: Il MAC'S BACKS BOOKS III MAC'S DOK S 1820 THE COST OF: FREEDOM ent affer Kent State 1970 TONEWORD DETHE REVEREND JESSE L. JACKSON MOMENTS OF TRUTH

Next stop on the Cleveland bookstore tour: Mac's Backs Books, another indie where we were excited to find KSUP titles on the shelves. Visit them today!

Behind the White House Curtain featured in the Kent State University Press Fall/Winter 2025 catalog.

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Our fall catalog is here! Join us to:
📕anticipate new books (including titles by @chrisbriem.bsky.social and @terryallenbelew.bsky.social);
📕look back on 60 years of KSUP history; and
📕celebrate recent successes by @newsguy.bsky.social and others.
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Loganberry Books sign and storefront, with four book covers—The Fifth Star, Playhouse Square, Ghosts of an Old Forest, and The Promise of LeBron James.

Great seeing so many recent titles from Kent State University Press at Loganberry Books in Cleveland! Big thanks to them—and to independent bookstores everywhere—for their support.

Multicolored seasonal catalogs from Kent State University Press on a cutting board background.

Catalog with text "THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS IN PRINT FALL 1969" on a cutting board background.

We’re preparing to unveil our fall catalog, which is a nice excuse to look back on select KSUP catalogs from the past sixty years!

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"A modern folk tale filled with love, laughter and the joy of life. Reading these merry pages is something like eating a dinner of the very best spaghetti and meat sauce with plenty of Chianti and a string orchestra nearby playing 'Santa Lucia." —The New York Times THE COMING OF FABRIZZE A NOVEL RAYMOND DeCAPITE Foreword by Tony Ardizzone The 81 Essential Cleveland Novels These stories may be fiction, but they are all set in a real place: Northeast Ohio. Read novels from the 1800s to 2025 that use our home as their home. Edited by Annie Nickoloff

At Cleveland Magazine, @nickoloffoff.bsky.social has a new list of “81 Essential Cleveland Novels”—including one from KSUP! “The Coming of Fabrizze,” by Raymond DeCapite, was originally published in 1960 and tells the story of an Italian immigrant in the 1920s: clevelandmagazine.com/entertainmen...

Columbus Book Festival returns this weekend: What you need to know The Columbus Book Festival returns this weekend for two days of literary celebration.

Columbus Book Festival kicks off this weekend: What to know about this year’s event

A Q&A with Terry Belew, author of “The Deep Blue of Neptune” Big thanks to Cheryl Dyer for talking with Terry Belew, author of The Deep Blue of Neptune—selected as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize. It’s coming in September from Kent State U…

Pleased to share a new Q&A with @terryallenbelew.bsky.social, author of “The Deep Blue of Neptune”—selected as winner of the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.

Magazine spread on a table with glasses, houseplant, and mug. Lower verso page is an ad for KSU Press with four book covers.

Even better in print! Grateful for the opportunity to highlight KSUP books in the July issue of Harper’s (which is celebrating its 175th birthday the same year we’re celebrating our 60th). Look for it on newsstands now.

“You do not linger out loud. / You are not in my mouth.” 

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This poem appeared in Sister Tongue by Farnaz Fatemi, published by The Kent State University Press, 2022. Shared here with deep gratitude.

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT Published by Kent State University Press, Artisans and Designers is the first in-depth analysis of the Phelpses' partnership, their often overlooked contributions to the fashion industry, and their forward-thinking business practices. AMERICAN FASHION THROUGH ELIZABETH AND WILLIAM PHELPS Rebecca Jumper Matheson draws on their pieces to connect their work to larger conversations about sustainable fashion, consumerism, industrialization practices, and the intersection of art with American identity during and after World War II. ARTISANS AND DESIGNERS REBECCA JUMPER MATHESON AUTHOR REBECCA JUMPER MATHESON Coming November 4

Cover reveal! Rebecca Jumper Matheson's book "Artisans and Designers: American Fashion Through Elizabeth and William Phelps" is coming in November in our series with the Costume Society of America: www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2025/artisan...

@ksupress.bsky.social has recently let me know that my book will be available as an audiobook later this year. Details to follow when available. My thanks to them and all who have expressed their support for my book "Pity, Power, and Tolkien's Ring: To Rule the Fate of Many." #tolkien

Get your bookmarks ready: This month, Cleveland Magazine celebrates the written word in our "Reading Cleveland" feature, exploring a world of books just in time for summer reading season. 📚
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2. "Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park Through Poetry" ed. by Charles Malone, Carrie George and Jason Harris While Akron is historically known for rubber and its place in the Rust Belt, tucked behind these industrial structures is the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The Cuyahoga River, which runs through this park, is what Moses Warren ascended from when surveying what would be modern day Akron. What's more magical than the fact we have a national park so close to us is the range of species and plant life that call the park home. This collection, which spotlights the talents of local writers, highlights the beauty and wonder in our park.

Did you see? Last week @signalakron.bsky.social included “Light Enters the Grove” on its list of books to celebrate Akron’s 200th birthday. Congrats to the volume editors, to all of the contributors, and to our partners at the Wick Poetry Center!

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Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves being held against a summery background.

Happy pub day to Martin Bush, whose book “Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves” is now available!

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SBN Newsmakers: VOA's Chief National Correspondent, Steve Herman, fights for free press - Steve Herman, chief national correspondent for the Voice of America, in an exclusive interview with SBN's Steve Lubetkin, discusses the fight against Trump administration attempts to shutter the organ...

State Broadcast News - VOA's chief national correspondent, Steve Herman, is fighting back against efforts by the Trump administration to close the 83-year-old news and cultural broadcasting hub. statebroadcastnews.com/2025/06/26/s... #SaveVOA

Great conversation with two baseball historians whose combined age is 186!!

YouTube video by Kent State University Press Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves

Thanks to @jwi.bsky.social and all of KSUP's friends at Vesto PR for facilitating a lively conversation between Martin H. Bush and Sol Gittleman about Bush’s new book with Kent State—“Deadbeats, Dead Balls, and the 1914 Boston Braves.”

From the Rust Belt to the Bookshelf: How Two Cleveland Presses Champion Local Authors Both Gray & Company and Kent State University Press have built business on producing work for Northeast Ohio-based readers. By Maura Zurick

Grateful to Cleveland Magazine (@clevelandmag.bsky.social) for including KSU Press in this writeup of book publishing in Northeast Ohio—and pleased to see more attention for “Light Enters the Grove”!

I love every single one of these books.

(Also, see those little Christmas cactus leaves in the upper left corner of three of the pics? Pretty proud of myself for remembering to water that plant week after week. It is *thriving,* friends.)

Covers of Ghosts of an Old Forest and Resurrection of the Wild, with barn

Cover of The Art of Pity, with design

Cover of Light Enters the Grove, with three multi-color nature images

Cover of The Man Who Shot JP Morgan, with historic photos

We’re celebrating the solstice with summery photos of some new and recent titles from KSUP. May the weekend—and the new season—be full of good books!

In a poetic coincidence today, I now have a book cover. Not available yet, but you can pre-order, and I promised my editor everyone following here will want to preorder! But if you have landed here because of the Nippon Steel/US Steel news, you will want to read this:

Early summer news and reviews Kent State University Press is one of several publishers featured in Belt Magazine’s profile of Rust Belt poetry programs . . .

From the Boston Globe to C-SPAN, and from the Ohio Center for the Book to Belt Magazine, KSUP’s books and authors are having a great start to summer. Congrats to everyone from our terrific list!

393: The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan w/ Mary Noé Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast 4,046 subscribers published 4 days ago

The rollout for Mary Noé’s book “The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan” continues with an appearance on “Most Notorious!”:

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