Seminole State College Assistant Professor of English Paul Juhasz has released his sixth book, Katabasis, a new collection of poems published by Turning Plow Press.

In Katabasis, Juhasz explores grief, memory and the complicated work of recovery, using the ancient idea of a descent “into the world below” as a lens for modern life. Turning Plow Press describes the collection as a journey through darkness marked by loss, hope and the reality that “healing is not linear.”

Juhasz is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated author of five previous books: Fulfillment: Diary of a Warehouse Picker, a mock journal based on his time working at an Amazon fulfillment center; As If Place Matters, a collection of short fiction; and three poetry collections, Ronin: Mostly Prose Poems (a finalist for the 2022 Oklahoma Book Award), The Inner Life of Comics and The Fires of Heraclitus (a finalist for the 2025 Oklahoma Book Award).

Juhasz will share selections from Katabasis during two upcoming public readings. He will appear Thursday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m. at Green Feather Book Company in Norman, followed by a second reading Wednesday, Feb. 19, at 7 p.m. at The Lunch Box in Shawnee. Both events are open to the public.

From 2020-2024, Juhasz served as curator and coordinator of the Woody Guthrie Poets. He currently lives in Oklahoma City.