Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Cleveland State University Poetry Center The CSU Poetry Center publishes joyful, profound, astonishing, complicated, and aesthetically diver Waltz, Allison Benis White, and Wendy Xu.

Cleveland State University Poetry Center was originally established in 1962 at the former Fenn College of Engineering to promote poetry through readings and community outreach. In 1971, it expanded its mission to become a national non-profit independent poetry press under the auspices of the Cleveland State University Department of English, and has since published over one-hundred-fifty titles. Th

e Poetry Center has retained its focus on publishing collections of contemporary poetry by established and emerging authors, while preserving its original legacy of providing educational outreach to the literary community of Northeast Ohio and maintaining a regular poetry reading series which now brings an average of fifteen poets a year from across the country to give public readings at Cleveland State University. The Poetry Center is committed to acquiring, through first-book and open-book competitions, stylistically distinctive and skillfully crafted collections from an aesthetically diverse range of authors. The Poetry Center is proud to have published works by such poets as David Baker, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, David Kirby, Thomas Lux, Thylias Moss, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, and Franz Wright. Recent and forthcoming titles include collections by John Bradley, Lily Brown, Elyse Fenton, Emily Kendal Frey, Rebecca Hazelton, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Dora Malech, Shane McCrae, Helena Mesa, Phillip Metres, Zach Savich, Sandra Simonds, Mathias Svalina, Allison Titus, Liz Waldner, William D. The Poetry Center also serves as an educational resource for the undergraduate, MA, and MFA students at Cleveland State not only through its reading series but also by providing internship opportunities and involving students in both editorial and production aspects of literary publishing.

Thrilled to share the news that our novel No One Knows Their Blood Type by , translated by , has been shortlisted for th...
09/11/2025

Thrilled to share the news that our novel No One Knows Their Blood Type by , translated by , has been shortlisted for the 2025 ALTA First Translation Prize, administered by . Congrats to all the translators, authors, & editors celebrated on this shortlist!

The ALTA First Translation Prize recognizes the work of emerging literary translators and their editors. This annual prize is open to all genres, and awards one debut literary translation from any other language into English published in the previous calendar year. Translators based anywhere in the world are eligible. The winner will receive a cash prize of $3,000, with $2,000 bestowed to the translator and $1,000 to the editor. The judges for this year's prize are CJ Evans, David M. Smith, and Jiyoon Lee.

We're grateful for ALTA's essential support of translators doing urgent work early in their careers. Thanks to the judges for this wonderful recognition of 's accomplishment: "translated with an evident love of the original's Arabic rhythms, with a delicacy and care that is unique."

Nice to see 's beautiful incantatory essay in this spotlight on indie publishing here in the Great Lakes region. And he...
09/08/2025

Nice to see 's beautiful incantatory essay in this spotlight on indie publishing here in the Great Lakes region. And hey to our fellow Ohio publishers 💚

We're thrilled to announce that the novel No One Knows Their Blood Type by , translated by , has been longlisted for the...
09/04/2025

We're thrilled to announce that the novel No One Knows Their Blood Type by , translated by , has been longlisted for the 2025 National Translation Award in Prose, administered by . It's an honor to join this longlist of 12 extraordinary books.

The National Translation Award is awarded annually in poetry and prose to literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality. Established in 1998, the NTA is the only prize for a work of literary translation into English to include a full evaluation of the source language text.

Thank you to the judges and to ALTA for their work. Endless gratitude to translators.

We're excited to be hosting the 44th annual William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition in collaboration with our friends...
09/03/2025

We're excited to be hosting the 44th annual William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition in collaboration with our friends . Medical students & physicians, send us your poems! 💚 Link in bio.

Preorder Michael Loughran's Windower (essay series) or Colleen O'Brien's Reel (poetry) from the CSU Poetry Center today!...
08/18/2025

Preorder Michael Loughran's Windower (essay series) or Colleen O'Brien's Reel (poetry) from the CSU Poetry Center today!

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We’re lucky at the Poetry Center to get to work with some extremely awesome NEOMFA students. 💚 As we wrap up another aca...
05/15/2025

We’re lucky at the Poetry Center to get to work with some extremely awesome NEOMFA students. 💚 As we wrap up another academic year here, it means we need to say goodbye to the senior-most Editorial Assistant in our ranks as they proceed to the great post-MFA beyond. This year that’s the inimitable Joey Rooney: Writer of fictions and essays and poems, tennis and biblical apocrypha enthusiast, and “the only reasonable person at the Poetry Center” as determined by wide public polling.

Fellow Graduate Assistant Kristen Tetzmann caught him on his way out the door, ostensibly to become our next President, for some parting thoughts on writing and editing, the MFA life, and schnoodles. 💚🎆

I should emphasize that an MFA is a terminal degree, which is not quite like a terminal disease, I don’t think: more like a terminal in an airport.

Friday 4/25 at Transformer Station: Xan Forest Phillips, Ali Black, & Delilah McCrea! 💚
04/16/2025

Friday 4/25 at Transformer Station: Xan Forest Phillips, Ali Black, & Delilah McCrea! 💚

Two weeks til the Cleveland Poetry Festival!!! 💚
04/11/2025

Two weeks til the Cleveland Poetry Festival!!! 💚

CSU's creative writing club will meet bi-weekly this semester! Join them for the next gathering on 4/1:
03/25/2025

CSU's creative writing club will meet bi-weekly this semester! Join them for the next gathering on 4/1:

3/28 7:30PM Sam Ace reads for an offsite with Rescue Press, Dorothy, FC2, Case Western, & CSU Poetry Center at 101-17 St...
03/18/2025

3/28 7:30PM Sam Ace reads for an offsite with Rescue Press, Dorothy, FC2, Case Western, & CSU Poetry Center at 101-17 Studios 💚☀️ in LA at AWP

The CSUPC will also be at table T211 -- come say hi at the bookfair! 📚

Thanks to CLMP for this generosity! 💚
01/22/2025

Thanks to CLMP for this generosity! 💚

January 21st, 2025CLMP Awards Small Press Future Fund Grants to 35 Publishers Formerly Distributed by SPDNew York, NY (January 21, 2025)—The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) has announced it will award $285,000 in grants to 35 literary publishers formerly distributed by Small Pre...

"In his piercing afterword to Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s novel No One Knows Their Blood Type, Palestinian translator Hazem Jam...
12/20/2024

"In his piercing afterword to Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s novel No One Knows Their Blood Type, Palestinian translator Hazem Jamjoum asks, 'What do we center when we want to speak to us? When we’re not trying to tell others about what we fight against and what we fight for when we fight for freedom?'"

--No One Knows Their Blood Type reviewed at The Markaz Review 💚

Zahra Hankir reviews Hazem Jamjoum's English translation of Palestinian novelist Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's novel "No One Knows Their Blood Type."

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