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Jerome Rothenberg at UC Press in 2017, seated beside his collections: “Technicians of the Sacred” and “Symposium of the Whole.”Jerome Rothenberg, who passed away on April 21, was a giant in the poetry community and a longtime author, anthologist, and translator for University of California Press

UC Santa Cruz graduate student Nathan Osorio received a 2022-2023 Humanities Institute Public Fellowship to work with UC Press for the duration of the school year. He is the recipient of the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Chapbook Fellowship for his collection, The Last Town Before the Mojave. His

Songs of Gold Mountain by Marlon K. Hom explores the experience of Chinese people in America and the literary history of San Francisco's Chinatown. With over 200 poems from the Songs of Gold Mountain anthologies published in 1911 and 1915, these rhymes provide insight into life in San Francisco. Hom

As National Poetry Month comes to an end and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month begins, UC Press is spotlighting Asian American poetry titles and Chinese American Voices, which includes primary documents and poems by Chinese Americans. Commonsby Myung Mi KimMyung Mi Kim's Commons