Добра ніч, dear friends. Oksana Maksymchuk's STILL CITY: DIARY OF AN INVASION is available from Carcanet Press (UK): carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexe…. In the US, it will be available from Pitt Poetry Series. #StandwithUkraine & read more #Ukrainian #literature !

You don’t have to wait until 3am to listen to the 2nd part of the Breakingformpod conversation with Jericho Brown about The Selected Shepherd our from Pitt Poetry Series—but for me that wouldn’t be a bad life choice to make at that time of night!

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Reading 'Rocket in the Room' for PN Review

Our second-to-last cover reveal is Alex Wolfe's my design for PURCHASE by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, publishing 10/8/24! The art on the cover is a digital quilt by Lyrae. Keep an eye on this book—Lyrae's previous collection, ] OPEN INTERVAL [, was a National Book Award Finalist!

We're here on the final day of National Poetry Month with another cover reveal! Here's the cover for Bret Shepard’s ABSENT HERE, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Cover design by Melissa Dias-Mandoly. Pub date is 10/18/24.

Happy Friday! We're excited to reveal the cover for Jan Beatty’s DRAGSTRIPPING! We're thrilled to have Jan's newest collection in the Pitt Poetry Series. The massively talented Carlos Hernandez did both the cover art and design for this one. The pub date is set for 9/3/24!

We're excited to share Melissa Dias-Mandoly’s (Melissa ) cover design for 2000 BLACKS by Ajibola Tolase, winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Prize for Poetry (@cavecanempoets ), selected by Lynne Thompson (@poetess151 )! 2000 BLACKS comes out on September 3, 2024.

And check out our conversation with Jericho here: breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com.

The poetry of Reginald Shepherd, not to mention Jericho Brown ‘s intro to The Selected Shepherd, helps us all to bloom more gracefully as writers.

We're thrilled to share the first of the covers for our Fall 2024 poetry titles, with QUERIDA by Nathan Xavier Osorio, winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, selected by Shara McCallum!

Cover design: Alex Wolfe

QUERIDA comes out on September 10, 2024.

.Jericho Brown hopes 'we can build a community around [THE SELECTED SHEPHERD] and honor a poet who...I love deeply and who has been a huge influence on my work.'

Jericho talks more about this book and what it means to him here: ow.ly/9HKX50RcBHk

THE SELECTED SHEPHERD by Reginald Shepherd, edited by Jericho Brown, is available now!

'A true feat of treasure and salvage, ensuring that one of the most vibrant and charged voices of our young twenty-first century stays alive.' —Ocean Vuong

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My poem, “The Red Planet,” from my forthcoming book The Sweating Sickness (Pitt Poetry Series ‘25) is featured at New England Review today! It’s about a fever my son had last winter, parenting at the tail end of the pandemic, & Mars.

The Red Planet nereview.com/vol-45-no-1-20… via New England Review

On this day in 2015, I went to visit the Uruguayan poet Circe Maia in Tacuarembó, Uruguay. A very special memory! My translation of her work, The Invisible Bridge, was published that year by Pitt Poetry Series !

Spellbound by the formal intricacies of V. Penelope Pelizzon's poems in her latest collection A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye from U Pittsburgh Press

We're launching a virtual poetry book club that will feature discussions with a poet and the Pitt Poetry Series editors. The inaugural meeting features V. Penelope Pelizzon's A GAZE HOUND THAT HUNTETH BY THE EYE.

Registration is free: eventbrite.com/e/april-pitt-p…

Congrats to 2024 Cave Canem Prize Winner Ajibola Tolase! His book 2000 BLACKS will be published in the fall as part of the Pitt Poetry Series.

Welcome to the UPP family, Ajibola!

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Congratulations to our 2024 Cave Canem Prize winner, Ajibola Tolase, for this exciting write-up in The Washington Post!

So thrilled to announce that my third book of poetry, The Sweating Sickness, will be forthcoming from U Pittsburgh Press Pitt Poetry Series in Spring of ‘25!!!