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Congrats to Oksana Maksymchuk, whose collection Still City was named to the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize longlist! griffinpoetryprize.com/press/2025-l... Still City is first-hand poetic witness to the war in Ukraine.

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i have never been to pittsburgh and would really like to visit so if anyone wants to invite me up to give a talk i’ll be happy to do it

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I still remember reading The Westing Game for the first time when I was in elementary school. It was like the whole world fell away.

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Congrats @utushimitwandi.bsky.social !!!

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It’s not much to ask.

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Want to get away? We invite you to take a photographic journey down the Youghiogheny River with WATCHING THE RIVER RUN by Tim Palmer (on sale 3/4/25). This vibrant photo essay shows us the remarkable beauty of this treasured river and surrounding region upittpress.org/books/978082...

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next PAGES Book Club meeting March 20, noon ET the book: Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy, by Shamichael Hallman if you want to join, you are welcome! register here: pupress.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Today’s Featured Poem: “Tempo” by Oksana Maksymchuk, from Still City, published by @upittpress.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/tempo/

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A massive, self-inflicted wound on American higher education.

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"A blueprint for what it means to treat other people right." — @randywilburn.bsky.social on Mal Goode Reporting: The Life and Work of a Black Broadcast Trailblazer, by Liann Tsoukas and Rob Ruck. @upittpress.bsky.social

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Not to be missed: this episode of @randywilburn.bsky.social 's podcast on the ever-inspiring Mal Goode. #blackhistorymonth iamnorthwestarkansas.com/captivate-po...

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Join us 2/13 at the University of Pittsburgh for a celebration of the life and work of Mal Goode (Class of ‘31), network news’s first African-American correspondent.

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I didn't have anything to do with this but Kendrick blurbed a @upittpress.bsky.social poetry book once upittpress.org/books/978082...

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Excited to have a new piece in the Chronicle of Higher Ed (@chronicle.com). I’ve been in so many exchanges with people who’ve never heard anything happy about university presses. So I wrote an essay to share with them.

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Ancient English Woodland is full of the ghosts of the dead and the dying, while the soon to be alive and the living benefit from it

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Rather than reduce the Gaza Strip to an arena of war and violence, Abreek-Zubiedat resurrects the urban and architectural history of Gaza’s cities and the varied perspectives and identities of the people who shaped them. A Territory in Conflict is out next month upittpress.org/books/978082...

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Everything is falling apart but tonight we’re celebrating Mubanga Kalimamukwento and her amazing collection. Take refuge where you can.

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Won’t you be my neighbor? The Pittsburgh house is just down the block from me! www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/r...

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a decade ago, attacks on higher education called students "too sensitive," painted them as threats to academic freedom, and thus successfully fractured solidarity between faculty and students. want to learn more? my book is 30% off through 2/28 with code 29GERDES30 - upittpress.org/books/978082...

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A groundbreaking study of urban and architectural history in Gaza, A Territory in Conflict is the first book to present the cultural architecture and urban history of the Gaza Strip in the wake of Israel’s occupation of the territory in 1967. On sale: 3/18/25: upittpress.org/books/978082...

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We’re delighted to announce that Bill Gaythwaite of Union, NJ, is the winner of the 2025 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Manuel Muñoz! Details here: upittpress.org/bill-gaythwa...

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Well, this is exciting. Coming in June from Amistad/HarperCollins.

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just a great printer error today

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We’re thrilled to announce that The Same Man by Bobby Elliott is the winner of the 2025 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, selected by Nate Marshall! • The Same Man will be published as part of the Pitt Poetry Series on September 9, 2025. Details here: upittpress.org/bobby-elliot...

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Beyond thrilled that The Selected Shepherd is one of the NY Time’s Best Poetry Books of 2024! “Edited by Jericho Brown, this is a rich introduction to Shepherd’s work, which is elegant, erudite and wry, every poem an argument for language as a way of life.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/b...

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Just love this review essay featuring Still City by Oksana Maksymchuk. “These poems unsettle a collective sense of melancholy into a generative force, from which a transformed historical imagination can emerge.” @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/only-the-nor...

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COVER REVEAL! We’re thrilled to announce: Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital by Amber N. Wiley (on sale 3/25/25 Details/pre-order here: upittpress.org/books/978082...

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The Art of Freedom: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and the Making of Modern India by Nico Slate is one of History Today’s Best Books of 2024! www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

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Millions of new neighbors are joining Bluesky, and there's a university press book for that: In _On Becoming Neighbors_, Alexandra C. Klarén examines the communications ethics and conditions of dialogue in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. From @upittpress.bsky.social upittpress.org/books/978082...

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Honored to have been in conversation with Eduardo Martínez-Leyva about his stunning debut Cowboy Park (uwiscpress) and Querida (@upittpress.bsky.social). I'm inspired by the connections & humbled by the rich diversions. Gratitude to @bombmag.bsky.social for their generous editorial care!

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There's been a rash in people objecting to books about Palestine in our bookstore, so I put up a sign.

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A very happy pub day Spatial Theories for the Americas by Fernando Luiz Lara! Lara discusses several theories of space—drawing on cartography, geography, anthropology, and mostly architecture—and proposes counterweights to five centuries of Eurocentrism. upittpress.org/books/978082...

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Airplane read ✈️

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'Summer Moon at Miyajima' - Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1936. #FullMoon #ukiyoe #JapaneseArt

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Cover Reveal! We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of Imperial Weather: Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial Malaya by Fiona Williamson. Imperial Weather joins our Intersections series on 2/18/25. Details and preorders here: upittpress.org/books/978082...

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Giving authors good news is the best part of my job

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I'm so glad a lot of new people are here even though some of them clearly think they're the Jamestown settlers whereas in reality they're just the new arrivals in Knots Landing circa season 4.

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Donora Death Fog is longlist finalist for the Writers Conference of Northern Appalachia Book of the Year award! wcona.com/book-of-the-... upittpress.org/books/978082...

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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

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We’re thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of Reading the World: British Practices of Natural History, 1760-1820 by @edwinrose.bsky.social • Reading the World joins our Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century series on 3/18/25.

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