Books in the Pitt Poetry Series series

Talking Pillow celebrates love as amazement, sustenance, and the progenitor of scarce-believable loss. Imagining themselves into multiple times, places, and lives, the poems comically explore the possibilities of attachment between people and the absurdity of death's sudden intrusion.

In Darwin's Mother, curious beasts are excavated in archeological digs, Charles Darwin's daughter describes the challenges of breeding pigeons, and a forest of trees shift and sigh in their sleep.

Love and friendship empower in wry narratives, though time "mows" down our days, though we may never escape "original cruelties." Tragedies permeating our enmeshed, global identities haunt the book: the massacre of gay youth in Orlando;

Waters explores the confluences of the sensual and the spiritual, and renders their mysteries with precision and clarity. The title evokes the rigorous consciousness that prods the artist to deepen into his craft. Line by line, Waters delivers the passionate eloquence and intensity that distinguish his poems.

A Plea and an Awakening to Peace as a Process and a Transient State.

Offers a poetic exploration - across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical - of the US-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and other subterfuges.

With accessibility, wit, and humour, poet Ronald Wallace evokes a wide variety of subjects that range from the traditional themes of lyric poetry - love, death, sex, the natural world, marriage, birth, childhood, music, religion, art - to the most unexpected and quirky narratives - an ode to excrement, a catalogue of comic one-liners, a celebratory testimonial to his teeth.

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.

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

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

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

Winner of the 2018 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

An Intimate Expression of a Poet's Grief

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

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

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