Bøker i Pitt Poetry Series-serien

Poems exploring understandings of belonging - from places and histories, to ways of knowing, loving, and grieving.

Winner of the 2019 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, chosen by Natasha Trethewey.

Poems navigate the American chaos of wars, street violence, apocalyptic fantasies, and racial tension.

A international collection of poems celebrating the beauty of poetry in different languages.

Poems explore Atlanta's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today through food and cooking.

An expansive, ardent, and memorable book of personal poetry.

Poems investigating our near-catastrophic ecological and political moment and the poet's complicity, resistance, and agency.

These roiling poems smack into walls of meditation, only to slide down the smooth concrete into the flatline of joy.

In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest.

Winner of the 2015 Donald Hall Prize for PoetryHour of the Ox received the 2015 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by Crystal Ann Williams, who called it "a timeless collection written by a poet of exceptional talent and grace, a voice as tough as it is tender."

Shows the reader both the closeness of the enemy and the poet's inherent courage, inventiveness, and joy.

Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Award Winner, 2021 Ohioana Book Award in PoetryWinner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving--known as Dr. J--who dominated courts in the 1970s and '80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia '76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Ross Gay connects Dr. J's famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love. Be Holding wonders how the imagination, or how our looking, might make us, or bring us, closer to each other. How our looking might make us reach for each other. And might make us be reaching for each other. And how that reaching might be something like joy.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry.

Chard deNiord is the Poet Laureate of the State of Vermont.

A New Poetry Collection from Jeffrey McDaniel that Confront the Insular and Expansive Qualities of Loss

Poems That Explore Fatherhood, Parenting, and Separation Anxiety, and the Ways in Which Time and Memory are Both a Prison and a Giver of Joy.

"Johnson is crowd-pleaser, a hole-card-reader, a social critic, and consummate chronicler of the Rap Age."

A New Collection from the Starret Prize Winning {Poet Nancy Krygowski

Poetry with a Desire to Move Toward Transformation and Rebirth

An Intimate Expression of a Poet's Grief

Winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

Winner of the 2018 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Judge: Ross Gay.

A new collection from the award winning poet Nathalie Handal, whose work includes The Republics, Poet in Andalucia, and Love and Strange Horses.

Poems that Consider the Disappearance of Language in an Age of Digital Communication

A New Collection of Poetry from the Author of the Highly Praised INVENTING DIFFICULTY, and THE TWO YVONNES.

Apt and tender and candid.--Donald Revell; A New Collection from the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY

"Astonishingly honest, bittersweet, hilarious, and heart-breaking: no time like now is a book you must read!"-Marjorie Perloff

"I recommend this poet to anyone listening for an original voice that is gentle as well as penetrating."--George MacBeth

Bradley Paul's third book, uses common objects, animals, people, and experiences as starting points to consider one's connectivity to the world

Contains interviews with nine eminent contemporary American poets (Natasha Trethewey, Jane Hirshfield, Martin Espada, Stephen Kuusisto, Stephen Sandy, Ed Ochester, Carolyn Forche, Peter Everwine, and Galway Kinnell). The poets testify to the demotic nature of poetry as a charged language that speaks uniquely in original voices, yet appeals universally.