Books in the Pitt Poetry Series series

Poetry in America offers lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources.

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

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.

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

City of Salt, Gregory Orr's sixth book of poems, is largely autobiographical and presents moments of intense emotion which are anchored in clearly dramatized events. These are poems of elegy and celebration, and of occasions where the two modes fuse in acts of redemptive imagination.

A unique sequence of narrative poems focusing on Galileo's life, relationships, and work. George Keithley provides one of the most personal portraits of the astronomer ever written.

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

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

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."

Winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize

Wojahn continues to explore the themes and approaches which he is known for, among them the junctures between the personal and political, a giddy mixing of high and pop culture references, and a deep emotional engagement with whatever material he is writing about.

Winner of the 2013 Donald Hall Prize in PoetryThe Dottery is a book of poetry arisen from a thought experiment-what if there was a school before birth where gender was taught?

Frederico Garcia lived in Manhattan from 1929 to 1930, and the poetry he wrote about the city, Poet in New York, was posthumously published in 1940. Eighty years after Lorca's sojourn to America, Nathalie Handal, a poet from New York, went to Spain to write Poet in Andalucia. Handal recreated Lorca's journey in reverse.

Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes's first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency.

Winner of the 1989 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry

Late Empire, David Wojahn's most wide-ranging collection of poetry, affirms his status as one of the most compelling and original voices of his generation. In these poems, private history and public history mingle and merge in a way that is by turns deeply personal and elegiac.

As its title proclaims, Eve's Striptease delivers a female voice that seeks to "find out for (her)self/ all the desires a body can hold." Through artful acts of revelation and concealment, these poems test experience against the notions of love and loss that tradition and religion have taught us.

Winner of the 1999 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry. Set against a fantastic backdrop of religious imagery, myth and dreams, science fiction, and the stark realities of a northern factory town, Voisine's poems carefully detail the life of a common hero and his family.