Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hera Naguib 💙 Poet of the Week 072
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressPoetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Today's Feature: "Ode on the Wildest Word" by Barbara Hamby from Burn published by @upittpress.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/ode-on-...poems.comOde on the Wildest Wordjelly, your high-risk dirigible in the bomb-alicious sky filled with lies, the radio highs that last three minutes tops, the shuck and jiv... 033
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What happens when people are traded for coal? Daniele Valisena's compelling history uncovers the stories of Italian migrants, Belgian mining communities, and the environmental legacy they left behind. @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/47mXKLa #EnvironmentalHistory 033
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"Books like King’s can help bridge this gap by instilling empathy and understanding." Lovely review of Those Who Vanish from the @southrevbooks.bsky.social! 010
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This week in our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Desire Path" Elegy, ode & fable woven together: thieves, widows, dreamers, gravediggers, inheritors. Music from Bi Kidude & Kanda Bongo Man threads through poems of eros, memory & endurance. ✨ Out next month: bit.ly/4id36zl @upittpress.bsky.social 032
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressPhilly Chapbook Review @phillychapbook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New #poetry #books from At Bay Press, BlazeVOX [books], @upittpress.bsky.social, Faber & Faber, Hub City Press, Copper Canyon Press, Sarabande Books, Alice James Books, Brick Books, Milkweed Editions, W.W. Norton & more. #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity phillychapbookreview.org/new-poetry-t...phillychapbookreview.orgNew Poetry Titles (9/22/26)Check out new poetry books for the week of 9/22 from At Bay Press, BlazeVOX [books], University of Pittsburgh Press, Faber & Faber, House of Anansi Press, Coach House Books, Hub City Press, Copper Canyon Press, Sarabande Books, McClelland & Stewart, Alice James Books, Brick Books, Milkweed Editions & W.W. Norton. 054
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressSam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Out today is Laura Kolbe's 'The Decadent Movement,' a poetry cycle about pregnancy, birth and motherhood organized in reverse chronology. It's beautiful, intimate and destabilizing, somehow strange and familiar all at once. I strongly recommend it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-... 153
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Excited to see Drue Heinz Literature Prize winner, Those Who Vanish by Patricia Grace King included on this list! 131
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressCommunity of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Our September roundup features @contramundumpress.bsky.social, @poetose.bsky.social, @graywolfpress.bsky.social, @sfwp.bsky.social, @upittpress.bsky.social, @twolinespress.com, @schaffnerpress.bsky.social, @regalhouse.bsky.social, @antiphonyjournal.bsky.social, and more: www.clmp.org/news/books-l...clmp.orgBooks Launching in September 2026 - Community of Literary Magazines and PressesSupport independent literary publishers by picking a read from the list below, which features new books released by CLMP members in September 2026. Freely Frayed by Don Mee Choi Wave Books |… 035
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressAssociation of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Tonight: Looking forward to Episode 1 of Uncovered, devoted to Hispanic heritage and culture, streaming on the PBS Books website, YouTube, Facebook, and the PBS app, Sept 15 8p EDT, www.pbsbooks.org/unc... 053
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Next in our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Rupture Anthem" Hera Naguib traces a speaker's journey across severance and belonging: her father's migration to #Jeddah's oil boom, girlhood under #Saudi law, a thwarted #Lahore homecoming, and diasporic America. bit.ly/4i7NtJo @upittpress.bsky.social 032
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Happy pub day to retrovirology by John Bonanni! @bananascallops.bsky.social retrovirology is the winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social Now available everywhere: upittpress.org/books/978082... 022
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressThe English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Stephanie Holt @stephholtnh.bsky.social reviews 'Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760–1820', by Edwin D. Rose @edwinrose.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @upittpress.bsky.socialacademic.oup.comReading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760–1820, by Edwin D. RoseNestled neatly within the cross-disciplinary world of the history of science, eighteenth- (and early nineteenth-) century studies, and the history of the 063
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressBonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social · 05/09/2026So thankful to the folx at @wbur.org for including 1. poetry in this book list, and 2. my book of poetry! 021
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressThe Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 04/09/2026"I don’t mean this to sound grim, but I think poetry is like a living wake," guest post Myka Kielbon shares in episode 1586. "Poets sing the songs of everything that matters to them in this life." Read "WHITMAN:" by Larry Levis, from WINTER STARS: bit.ly/4qXpP4W 📖: @upittpress.bsky.social 062
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026“It’s what Molly would tell the teenage student beside her, weeping in the street over yet one more brutalized stray, if only it weren’t the worst possible time to stop and give explanations.” Read “Dogs in Guatemala” from Patricia Grace King’s story collection, Those Who Vanish. buff.ly/wU7vkKPlithub.com“Dogs in Guatemala”Dogs in Guatemala are like this. It’s what Molly would tell the teenage student beside her, weeping in the street over yet one more brutalized stray, if only it weren’t the worst possible time to s… 071
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Excited to see Gravitation by Milan Dezinsky, translated by Nathan Fields included in this excellent roundup! 011
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressPoetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today's Feature: "First" by @naviyuk.bsky.social from snow pouring southward past the window published by University of Pittsburgh Press Read here: poems.com/poem/first/poems.comFirstI forget I am not pure, how little that part of the story ever matters. 083
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Congrats to Penelope Pelizzon, winner of the 2026 Sheila Margaret Motton Prize (New England Poetry Club) for A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by The Eye! nepoetryclub.org/2026-contest... 010
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This week's Pitt Poetry Series feature: "The Decadent Movement" Time runs backward in this book-length poem sequence that unspools from a year after childbirth, through birth itself, back to the nine months before—ending at "Minus Time," death's mirror-twin. bit.ly/4wVs3nC @upittpress.bsky.social 022
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Happy Pub Day to Those Who Vanish by Patricia Grace King, winner of the 2026 Drue Heinz Literature Prize! "King refuses to let history remain abstract" -@electricliterature.com Now available everywhere! upittpress.org/books/978082... 011
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 01/09/2026We're thrilled to present "Those Who Vanish", winner of the 2026 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. King's eight stories set during Guatemala's civil war trace martyrs, exiles, and rebels, asking what remains when all is lost. bit.ly/4ia5tTC @patriciagraceking.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social 022
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh Presssakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Out in two weeks, the much anticipated MAPPING MEDICAL MODERNITY by Susan Burns from @upittpress.bsky.social on urban space and public health in Meiji Japan with case studies on cholera, syphilis, and mental disorders in Tokyo #envhist #histstm 0226
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Thrilled to see both @bananascallops.bsky.social and Hera Naguib featured on @wbur.org's Favorite Fall Books! www.wbur.org/news/2026/08...wbur.org8 books with New England ties to read this fallWhether it’s the ripple effects of family secrets, the intimate losses of historic tragedies or even a copycat murder, WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends eight enthralling books whe... 041
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressWilliam Masami Hammell @umewmasa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026delighted to welcome onto my (partially) decluttered desk this newest title in our Histories and Ecologies of Health series upittpress.org/books/978082... @upittpress.bsky.social 066
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The second title from our Pitt #Poetry series spotlight: "Abider" Melissa Crowe traces a lover-speaker who can't leave anything behind—girlhood, marriage, harm—until a closing sonnet sequence turns toward the self. 🌸 @melissacrowe.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/3U72lhi 042
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressSimeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 25/08/2026(25/61) “Today / I will not return // to the airport drunk” —Dilruba Ahmed, “Resolution” (Bring Now the Angels) @upittpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #61Books61Days #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets 031
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Rest in Peace, Dolly 💔 youtu.be/Ixrje2rXLMA?...youtu.beDolly Parton - Jolene (Official Audio)YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO 130
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressAnna-Luna Post @annalunapost.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Very happy with Stefano Gattei's wonderful review of Galileo's Fame in Intellectual History Review! Read the full review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... And of course, you can get your own copy of the book via @upittpress.bsky.socialtandfonline.comGalileo’s fame: science, credibility, and memory in the seventeenth centuryPublished in Intellectual History Review (Ahead of Print, 2026) 041
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressBurgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A poem by @briangyamfi.bsky.social for #smallPoemSunday from WHAT GOD IN THE KINGDOM OF BASTARDS (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2025). Thank you, @susanlleary.bsky.social, for posting about this fantastic collection! ✨💫✨ @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 2207
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026The Pitt Poetry Series at the University of Pittsburgh Press continues its tradition of publishing the finest contemporary poetry by announcing the forthcoming publication of the following collections in the Spring 2027! upittpress.org/pitt-poetry-...upittpress.orgPitt Poetry Series Announces Spring 2027 Titles - University of Pittsburgh PressThe Pitt Poetry Series at the University of Pittsburgh Press continues its tradition of publishing the finest contemporary poetry by announcing the forthcoming publication of the following collections... 041
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressH-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social · 19/08/2026New book review: Green Rioja on Pfaller, Matthias: _Exposing the Nation: Histories of Photography in Chile, 1860-1960_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20159342networks.h-net.orgPfaller, Matthias. Exposing the Nation: Histories of Photography in Chile, 1860-1960. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026. xii + 327 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 9780822967767. Reviewed by Romina A. Green Rioja (Washington and Lee University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (August, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) 041
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressDr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026New on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Review from @rakemi.bsky.social (Washington & Lee Uni) of _Exposing the Nation: Histories of Photography in Chile, 1860-1960_ by @matthiaspf.bsky.social, pub 2026 @upittpress.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.socialh-net.org 022
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 19/08/2026🪡 Over the next few weeks we’ll spotlight new releases from UPP’s Pitt Poetry Series, starting with "retrovirology". Bonani resurrects Queer elders, weaving AIDS history with a rural childhood. bit.ly/3TGTJhp @upittpress.bsky.social @bananascallops.bsky.social 061
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressH-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New book review: Fine on Cephas, Jay: _Fordism and the City: How an Industry Shaped Urbanization in America_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026. Published by H-Sci-Med-Tech. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20159159networks.h-net.orgCephas, Jay. Fordism and the City: How an Industry Shaped Urbanization in America. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2026. ix + 371 pp. $44.55 (paper), ISBN 9780822967958. Reviewed by Lisa M. Fine (Michigan State University) Published on H-Sci-Med-Tech (August, 2026) Commissioned by Penelope K. Hardy (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse) 023
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressDr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New review on H-Sci-Med-Tech: Lisa M. Fine (@michiganstateu.bsky.social) on Jay Cephas (@princeton.edu), _Fordism and the City: How an Industry Shaped Urbanization in America_ , pub 2026 @upittpress.bsky.social #hstm Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social www.h-net.org/reviews/show...h-net.org 032
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressAWP @awpwriter.org · 12/08/2026Save the pub date for AWP’s 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry winner, RETROVIROLOGY by John Bonanni! Selected by judge @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social, John’s book will be out September 15 from the @upittpress.bsky.social! 011
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Beyond Affirmation" rethinks feminist rhetorical scholarship by shifting the focus from individuals to the circulation of rhetoric. Dingo and Riedner offer a transnational feminist approach centered on context, solidarity, and political action. @upittpress.bsky.social ♀️ bit.ly/4hPQtdi 031
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressMAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social · 10/08/202610/14 2026 MAAH Stone Book Award ShortList: Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation's Capital Amber N. Wiley @upittpress.bsky.social 031
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressWinning Writers @winningwriters.com · 09/08/2026"Mondegreen", a poem by Bobby Elliott poems.com/poem/mondegreen via @poetrydaily.bsky.social and @upittpress.bsky.social 011
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"Testimonial Diffractions" by Ana Forcinito is a powerful exploration of how voices of survivors reshape memory, challenge gender-based violence, and push justice forward in post-dictatorship #Argentina. Out at the end of the month: bit.ly/3SeD0Bt @upittpress.bsky.social #LatAmStudiesbit.lyTestimonial Diffractions | HomeCultural and Legal Responses to Gender-Based Violence in Argentina 111
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 06/08/2026We're happy to highlight two new titles this season from UPP's series 'Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas': "Testimonial Diffractions" and "Novel Distortions"...🧵 @upittpress.bsky.social bit.ly/4wAZPOF 122
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressSimeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 03/08/2026(3/61) “taught his sons how to soothe // skittery colts by looking them in the eyes / taught Perry to pretend not to read / when reading could get a colored man / hanged” —Colleen J. McElroy, “Les Anciens” (Blood Memory) @upittpress.bsky.social #61WomenPoets #WOC #TheSealeyChallenge #SeptWomenPoets 011
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressDuygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers. 510924
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLiverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 28/07/2026New edited volume, "Asian Catholicism and the Remaking of Contemporary Families" challenges assumptions about Catholicism in Asia, showing how families and faith transform one another through marriage, kinship and everyday practice: bit.ly/4gpa2J1 @upittpress.bsky.social @michelchambon.bsky.social 034
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"What God in the Kingdom of Bastards introduces an exciting new voice in American poetry, with the promise of more ground-breaking work to come." Absolute rave for Brian Gyamfi in Rain Taxi! raintaxi.com/what-god-in-...raintaxi.comWhat God in the Kingdom of BastardsBrian Gyamfi's debut collection marks the arrival of an original voice at once visionary yet resistant to easy romanticism, offering an expansive poetry of allusion and personal reflection. Reviewed b... 011
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressLesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Such a strong sense of place and history in these haunting #poetry collections. It’s been such a pleasure to spend time with them this July. @upittpress.bsky.social @thegallerypress.bsky.social 042
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressThe Slowdown @slowdownshow.org · 24/07/2026"The speaker of today’s poem confesses something — and in doing so, with self-compassion and self-forgiveness, sets it down," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1566. Read "What I Wanted to Keep Private" by Melissa Crowe, from ABIDER: bit.ly/4yExjgE 📖: @upittpress.bsky.social 073
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressKatja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social #envhist 👇 upittpress.org/books/978082... 03916
Reposted by University of Pittsburgh PressSimeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“My neighbor’s wife sits in a lawnchair / on the city cement sidewalk, fingers / the dials of several broken radios. Blistery / twisting fingers lose their color, whiten / from grasping” — @daisyfried.bsky.social, “Broken Radios” @upittpress.bsky.social 011