Associate Publisher John McAuliffe says that Imperium is "refreshing in its use of classical antecedents (Homer, Ovid, Sappho) as it addresses both our present moment and the continuing impacts of trauma."

Several Literary Arts alums report new and forthcoming books.  Louise Akers MFA ’18 has published Alien Year with Oversound. Horology, by Derek Gromadzki  MFA ’14, was published by Shearsman. Palmares by Gayl Jones AD '75 was released this autumn by Beacon Press. Latitude by Natasha Rao AB '16, was published by Copper Canyon. And Amish Trivedi MFA '11’s Futurepanic will be published by co-im-press in November.