Articles, Events & Book Releases

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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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About the Blueprint Series

The heavy, leathery hope of a turtle carrying her eggs. In her poem “Move,” Alicia Ostriker imagines the labor of our migration home. Ostriker’s compelling brand of inevitability, the “right spot” as she puts it, is born of both ugliness and grace, and embodies the

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