To promote his new book The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life , Lee Maynard is returning to his home state of West Virginia. If you're in the Morgantown or Charleston area from October 9, 2009 - October 13, 2009 check out one of his readings, get an autographed copy of his book, or ask him a question about his writing. See his schedule of events!

View our first podcast to learn more about Lee Maynard's The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life. This book launches October 1, 2009 and is available for pre-order here.

A WVU Press intern chronicles the inner workings of our press and the publishing world in a new blog entitled The Printer's Devil. Read here and become a West Virginia University Press facebook fan to receive updates and notifications about this publication.

Watch former WV congressman Ken Hechler discuss the devastation of Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia and learn more about this environmental destruction in Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal on Southern West Virginia Communities.

Because of its literary success and national popularity, Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, recently approached WVU Press in regards to acquiring the rights to The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart by M. Glenn Taylor.

Victorian Poetry Volume 47, Number 1 Spring 2009

Listen to three well-known West Virginians interpret the poetry of one of our state's poet laureates.