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The University of Pittsburgh Press is a publisher of distinguished books in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields.

We publish books for general readers, scholars, and students. The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publisher located in Pittsburgh, PA. We are the home of the Pitt Poetry Series.

09/09/2025

A very special Tuesday as we celebrate a reissue of a poetic classic and welcome two bold new voices to the Pitt Poetry Series family!
Happy pub day to:
✨the 45th anniversary edition of Satan Says by Sharon Olds

✨ The Same Man by Bobby Elliott, winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, selected by Nate Marshall

✨What God in the Kingdom of Bastards by Brian Gyamfi

Now on sale at your favorite local indie!

09/04/2025

In addition to the main event at 7:30pm, we're excited to host a series of satellite events on 9/13 celebrating Ed Ochester's work and the poets he guided into the world:

9/13 at 12pm: First Book panel with Quan Barry, Aaron Smith, Joy Priest, and Nancy Krygowski / Cathedral of Learning Room 332

9/13 at 2pm: Ed-iting, with Billy Collins, Jeffrey McDaniel, Denise Duhamel, Paisley Rekdal, and Lynn Emanuel / Cathedral of Learning Room 332

9/13 at 4pm: Celebrating the work of Toi Derricotte, with Ross Gay, Terrance Hayes, Joy Priest, and Gary Jackson / Frick Fine Arts Auditorium

All events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

09/03/2025

Reminder! We’re celebrating the life and work of Ed Ochester next Friday, 9/12. Join Terrance Hayes, Billy Collins, Ross Gay, Jan Beatty, and many poet luminaries for this moving event!

Free & open to the public.

09/02/2025

A very happy pub day to World Observation: Empire, Architecture, and the Global Archive of Itō Chūta by Matthew Mullane.

World Observation explores the archives and architecture of Itō Chūta (1867–1954), the eminent architectural thinker of the Japanese empire, who traveled across Asia, Europe, and North America to create the first world history of architecture in Japanese from a truly global set of encounters.

Details/orders: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948445/

08/22/2025

The University of Pittsburgh Press is honored to announce the forthcoming publication of August Wilson’s American Century: Life as Art by Laurence A. Glasco, on sale February 10, 2026.

Playwright August Wilson is best known for his American Century Cycle, a sequence of ten plays—including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Fences and The Piano Lesson—that chronicle the lives of Black Americans in each decade of the twentieth century. But behind the celebrated plays stands a complex man shaped by his hometown’s vibrant Black culture.

Details/preorder: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948544/

GROUNDBREAKING WORK OF SCHOLARSHIP: This book offers a fulsome biographical look - rather than a theatrical history - at August Wilson’s life and how his plays tell the story of Pittsburgh, Black America and America writ large in in the twentieth century.

FIRST BOOK TO HIGHLIGHT PITTSBURGH & ITS PEOPLE IN AUGUST WILSON’S WORK: A preeminent historian of Black life in Pittsburgh chronicles how Pittsburgh influenced August Wilson’s identity and his accomplishments—the life experiences that generated them, and the consequences for Wilson himself, his work, and his literary career.

Laurence A. Glasco is professor emeritus of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author or co-author of five books, including August Wilson: Pittsburgh Places in His Life and Plays (with Christopher Rawson).

DRCs are available on NetGalley and Edelweiss. Physical galleys will be available in due course.

Cover design by Alex Wolfe.

08/20/2025

Book launch event for The Same Man by Bobby Elliott!
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Tuesday, September 9th at at 7pm!
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Winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and a one-of-a-kind debut that asks what we owe those we love, Bobby Elliott’s The Same Man (University of Pittsburgh Press) is an aching chronicle of the early days of parenthood and the wounds of the past. Haunted by memory and powered by the demands and joys of new life, Elliott’s poems wrestle with the father-son relationship at their core and the deep, unspoken harms that shape us. A relentless effort toward expression and autonomy, The Same Man is a reckoning and a balm, a rallying call and a father’s song of devotion. Elliott will be joined in conversation by poet Michael Dhyne, author of Afterlife.

08/14/2025

A celebration of the life and work of Ed Ochester will take place on September 12, 2025 at 7:30pm in the Connelly Ballroom, located in Alumni Hall on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The event will be emceed by former Pitt Poetry Series co-editor Terrance Hayes and will feature readings, remembrances, and a discussion with some of luminaries of American poetry and the Pitt Poetry Series under Ochester’s editorship: Quan Barry, Jan Beatty, Billy Collins, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Ross Gay, Paisley Rekdal, and Aaron Smith.
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The celebration is being hosted by the University of Pittsburgh Press, the Pitt Poetry Series, and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP), and the Writing Program and the International Poetry Forum.
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On Saturday, September 13, 2025, there will also be a series of events on Pitt campus that feature discussions and panels involving the same group of poets. These events will be geared toward writers, students, and anyone interested in learning more about first books, the editorship of Ed Ochester, and an event hosted by CAAPP.
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The events are free and open to the public.

08/13/2025

Our Fall/Winter 2025 catalogue is now live! It features the 2025 Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner, a new edition of Satan Says by Sharon Olds, along with a stellar lineup from the Pitt Poetry Series and scholarly monographs that span the globe. Take a look!

https://upittpress.org/fall-winter-2025/

08/07/2025

Finished copies of the 45th anniversary edition of Satan Says are in and they look spectacular.
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On sale September 9th, preorder at the link in bio.

08/06/2025

The 2025 reading period for the Pitt Poetry Series is now open.

Submissions will be accepted until September 30, 2025. Details about how to submit can be found on our website: https://upittpress.org/pitt-poetry-series-submission-period-open/ ✨

Since its inception in 1967, the Pitt Poetry Series has been a vehicle for America’s finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Ross Gay, Etheridge Knight, Reginald Shepherd, Larry Levis, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Paul Hlava Ceballos, David Hernandez, Joy Priest, and many others.

Throughout its history, the Pitt Poetry Series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style.

The Pitt Poetry Series editors are Nancy Krygowski and Jeffrey McDaniel.

08/05/2025

We’re thrilled to share our Spring 2026 Pitt Poetry Series titles:

📚Steeplechase by Angela Ball, on sale 2/10/26

📚Antediluvian by Kameryn Alexa Carter, on sale 2/24/26

📚Gravitation by Milan Děžinský, translated by Nathan Fields, on sale 3/3/26

📚Fire Series by Kelly Hoffer, on sale 2/17/26

📚with snow pouring southward past the window by Joan Naviyuk Kane, on sale 3/3/26

Pitt Poetry Series editors are Nancy Krygowski and Jeffrey McDaniel ✨

07/30/2025

Travel around the world this fall with the University of Pittsburgh Press! Our Fall 2025 scholarly titles will take you from Renaissance Italy and Late Imperial Russia to the mid-20th century Caribbean and Chile, with many stops in between.

Japanese architectural history ✅

17th century European drug cultures ✅

Gender and science in 19th century Argentina ✅

Scroll through, more details about each on our website: https://upittpress.org/
There’s something for everyone. Cover designs by the incomparable Alex Wolfe and Melissa Dias-Mandoly

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