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Carnegie Mellon University Press Carnegie Mellon University Press has been publishing books since 1972, with a particular focus on poetry and literature.

We're open for submissions! This time around, we're looking for poetry, fiction, and — for the first time — creative non...
08/15/2026

We're open for submissions!

This time around, we're looking for poetry, fiction, and — for the first time — creative nonfiction.

Learn more: https://cmupress.submittable.com/submit

08/05/2026

I was conspiring with a lunar eclipse and solar storm to win you back.”

CMU Press author Robert Thomas reads “Sonnet with Barn Dance and Solar Storm” from his 2023 collection, Sonnets with Two Torches and One Cliff.

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07/21/2026

“They say trees can feel it when you walk.”

Forester McClatchey reads the poem “Root Words” from his collection, Killing Orpheus. This poem was originally published by .

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Another batch of press clippings for our Spring 2026 books, including an interview with in BOMB Magazine, a review of C...
07/08/2026

Another batch of press clippings for our Spring 2026 books, including an interview with in BOMB Magazine, a review of Carolyn Guinzio’s Cameo Blue in , ’s 2008 in , and ’s Killing Orpheus in the Southern Literary Review ✍️💓

06/30/2026

“The dead always had our best interest in mind. All we had to do was ask.”

Dzvinia Orlowsky reads “If We Weren’t Knocking on Wood” from her 2024 collection Those Absences Now Closest.

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06/18/2026

“Our water, my father explained, just ran a little rich.”

CMU Press author Michael McGriff reads the opening poem, “Our Water,” from his Spring 2025 collection Angel Sharpening Its Beak.

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Congratulations to CMU Press author Dzvinia Orlowsky on being awarded Suffolk University's 2026 David Ferry and Ellen La...
06/10/2026

Congratulations to CMU Press author Dzvinia Orlowsky on being awarded Suffolk University's 2026 David Ferry and Ellen LaForge Annual Poetry Prize!

The Prize’s committee noted Dzvinia’s “original experiments with form and language,” specifically referring to the “keen facility in grafting others’ words into your own, creating new living spaces for thought” she displayed in 2024’s Those Absences Now Closest.

Purchase Dzvinia's book here: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo237305388.html

06/08/2026

We asked to pitch his book in under a minute, and it’s safe to say he didn’t disappoint.

His novel of “compounds and collectives and cults” is out now and available at the link in our bio 🔗

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06/03/2026

“And you, my love, are nothing on this earth if not the crushing blank that ends my work.”

Forester McClatchey reads the poem “Elegy For Several Selves” from his collection, Killing Orpheus. This poem was originally published by .

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05/27/2026

“She had turned the sheet upside down, so that the Rainbow Brite faces were kissing the carpet and would not be witness to what they were about to do.”

Spring 2026 author Susan McCarty reads the first page from her “hilarious and devastating” novel 2008.

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