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Stenen Press at the Brooklyn Book Festival!

Sep 29, 2024, 10am–6pm EST
Downtown Brooklyn, NY

Come see us at Booth 125! We’re so excited to meet the writing community as we exhibit during the Brooklyn Book Festival!

IBPA Member Spotlight

IBPA is an association of independent book publishers dedicated to professionalism and excellence. In July, IBPA Member Spotlight featured Stenen Press and their inaugural anthology in celebration of its IBPA Silver award recognition.

The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow is the 2024 IBPA Book Award Silver Winner!

Stenen Press is proud to announce that The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra has been recognized as the Silver Winner in the Poetry category of the 36th annual IBPA Book Award. Special congratulations to our editors and contributors for their outstanding work! We are immensely grateful and […]

The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow is the 2024 IBPA Book Award Finalist!

We have a finalist once more! Stenen Press is overjoyed to announce that The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra is the IBPA Book Award Finalist in the Poetry category. We are immensely proud of everyone involved who helped make our anthology a reality. This year’s competition was […]

Stenen Press at AWP 2024 in Kansas City!

Feb 8–10, 2024, 9 am–5 pm CST
Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City, MO

We’re so excited to meet the writing community this week at our very first book festival! Visit Stenen Press at Table 1123 as we exhibit during the 2024 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair.

The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow: A Book Celebration

May 27, 2023, 2:00–3:00 pm EDT
Online event, please register for link

Stenen Press is proud to present The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra—a book that rethinks language itself, and embraces the power, innovation, and diversity of poetic voices from around the globe. Join us for a celebration and panel discussion about poetry, translation & art.

The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow /
El alma se mueve en la sombra Press Release

Original poetry, resplendent imagery, mutual translation, and collaborative essays on the topic of translation itself. Our groundbreaking inaugural anthology The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow / El alma se mueve en la sombra reflects deeply creative friendships that situate translation as equitable, intimate, and ongoing. “This book is made of encounters. It moves from one […]

Laura Dolp performs Book of Hours

March 23, 2022, 7:00–8:00 pm EST
Online event, please register for link

Breathing new life into the form of the devotional text, Book of Hours is a powerful meditation on the conditions of place, gaze, and being.

Letters from Cairo: A Roundtable Discussion

March 12, 2022, 11:00 am–12:00 pm EST
Online event, please register for link

On the release of our third book in the Blueprint Series, Letters from Cairo, join Joel Beinin, Annie DeVries, Alia Mossallam, and the editor, Laura Dolp, for a wide-ranging conversation about the complex riches of urban experience in Cairo during the mid-twentieth century. 

Letters from Cairo Press Release

Letters from Cairo is a vivid memoir of American experience of Nasser’s Egypt, seen through the eyes of two expat academics who navigate the epiphanies, adventures, and paradoxes of a country at a critical turning point. On the eve of the Six-Day War, a young American woman writes from her desk in Cairo to her […]

Book of Hours Press Release

Breathing new life into the form of the devotional text, Book of Hours is a powerful meditation on the conditions of place, gaze, and being. This pocket-sized collection of original drawings and poems in English animates visual and textual poetics around the mythology of place. Recalling the richly-illustrated devotional texts of medieval Christian Europe, its […]

So… Press Release

Adventure. Transformation. Friendship. Dive into the quirky, seductive world of So…, where a simple circle spins a yarn about encountering the unknown. So… is a wordless illustrated book that follows the journey of a simple circle traveling through vibrant landscapes. Told through lush batik fabric as well as through the whimsical visual vocabulary of sewing […]

JAKE GOLDWASSER on the Alchemy of Translation

As far as endeavors go, translation has all of the perils one might fear for and virtually none of the guardrails one might hope for. Reasonable activities—baking a blueberry pie, say—have achievable success criteria and known dangers. You know a good final product when you see it: a golden crust; a tangy, fruity filling; a […]

BIANCA STONE on Poetry, Dark Matter & Psychotherapy

For the poem to fully exist on the page, it takes full involvement with another’s psyche. The breath of the poem embodies the original writer, in air and nerve. Poetry is a medium of participation, what is called a dyad. It highlights our embedded unconscious

Why “Stenen” Press?

The other day a member of our hardworking staff turned to me and said “You really should write something about the name of the Press. People are curious. Why ‘stenen’?” She said this with a glint in her eye because she knew it would send me down the rabbit hole. As usual, she was right. […]