Today's Featured Poem: "In the Sine-Saloum Delta" by Quan Barry, from Auction, published by U Pittsburgh Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/in-the-si…

Today's Featured Poem: "Black Ice on Green Dolphin Street" by Reginald Shepherd, from The Selected Shepherd, published by U Pittsburgh Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/black-ice…

Today's Featured Poet: Poet and editor Reginald Shepherd was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx. As Ron Silliman wrote in a tribute to Shepherd, who died in 2008 in Pensacola, Florida, “Shepherd took from all schools and created something entirely his own.”

“When it was over, My father simply went in & ate lunch, & then, as always, Lay alone in the dark, listening to music. He never mentioned it.   I never understood how anyone could risk his life, Then listen to Vivaldi.” —Larry Levis Pitt Poetry Series poetryfoundation.org/poems/53388/wi…

In Pittsburgh, poets have their own billboards

Our Summer Reading Sale rolls on! All titles 50% off with code 29UPPSMMR until 8/15. Shop now: upittpress.org

In our latest website feature, Shō intern and No. 5 contributor Claire Zhou interviews Shō No. 4 contributor Nathan Xavier Osorio (Nathan Xavier Osorio), winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, selected by Shara McCallum. Read here: bit.ly/sho-interview-…

ALL these poems are from my forthcoming 3rd book of poetry, The Sweating Sickness, out from U Pittsburgh Press Pitt Poetry Series in January 2025, a collection about the pandemic, fairytales, mothering, the Tudors, violence & anger in a toxic relationship, suicide, grief, rivers & more.

Ok, here we go. My third collection, No Longer at This Address, will be published in Fall 2025. I'm overjoyed to be working with U Pittsburgh Press once again, and I can't wait to share this book with y'all.

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“she got home / from her job as a guard at Fontana Women’s Prison, / the only work she could find after my father died / of booze and left her with the three kids / and a falling apart little stucco house.” —George Bilgere, “For the Slip ‘N Slide” Barrow Street Press Pitt Poetry Series

“Tanya, if I could/why would I waste my time/with milk, or with you, you//whom I decidedly do not love?/I’d be out charming/my indifferent grandmothers//into expressions of genuine affection/and jewelry” —Erin Adair-Hodges, “Juvenilia” Pitt Poetry Series greenmountainsreview.com/juvenilia/

Thanks @dontingling & Pitt Poetry Series

Jan Beatty in the house! Dragstripping, her forthcoming collection, is a stick of dynamite and we can't wait to share it with you. On sale 9/3: upittpress.org/books/97808229…

Today's Featured Poem: "Lark" by Corey Marks, from The Rock That Is not a Rabbit, published by U Pittsburgh Press. Read here: poems.com/poem/lark/

Jan Beatty reads the poem Drag, from her new collection, Dragstripping, on sale Tuesday 9/3: upittpress.org/books/97808229… Pitt Poetry Series Jan Beatty

It's pub day for Jan Beatty's latest collection, Dragstripping! Jan will launch her collection on 9/5 at Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures with Richard Blanco: pittsburghlectures.org/lectures/jan-b…

Happy pub day to Ajibola Tolase and his debut collection, 2000 Blacks, winner of the 2024 Cave Canem Prize, judged by Lynne Thompson Lynne Thompson and published through U Pittsburgh Press 🎉 upittpress.org/books/97808229…