PREPOSITION reviews KONBIT (@cmupress.bsky.social, 2026) by @sonytonaime.bsky.social. "Relatively unheralded in contemporary poetry, Ton-Aime is an important new interlocutor in a movement that I have elsewhere described as a 'new historical poetics.'" www.prepositionmag.com/ton-aime-kon...

Writer and director of Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures Sony Ton-Aime discusses his poetry collection, “Konbit” ( @cmupress.bsky.social, 2026), that reimagines the communal solidarity of the Haitian revolution with writer Z. L. Nickels.

BOMB Magazine | Sony Ton-Aime by Z. L. Nickels

A debut poetry collection that reimagines the communal solidarity of the Haitian revolution.

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We're thrilled to announce the first ever winner of the Tayur Poetry Prize: Hussain Ahmed! ➡️ Learn more about Ahmed and Sing, Sky, his award-winning collection, here: www.cmu.edu/university-p...

Our spring season of books is here!

Carnegie Mellon University@cmu.edu · 6mo ago

Introducing Carnegie Mellon University Press’s spring titles 🌷📖 Snow might still be on the ground but the first signs of spring are here — including a new slate of books from our very own university press. Explore the titles ➡️ linktr.ee/cmupress #Booksky | @cmupress.bsky.social

Our winter open reading period for literary translations and new plays runs through Jan 12. We welcome volumes of poetry, collections of short fiction, and completed novels in translation and submissions of finished full-length plays (60-120 min. running time). www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

"This bilingual edition preserves Vilariño’s rhythmic precision and existential intensity, giving readers a rare glimpse into a body of work that continues to resonate far beyond its origins." No in @literaryhub.bsky.social's new round-up of UP translations ❤️ lithub.com/reading-arou...

Amazing to see No featured here - thanks so much @wwborders.bsky.social and @tobiascarroll.bsky.social!

Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Did you miss Tobias Carroll's Watchlist? It's full of great recommendations of books in translation that you should read this fall. Keep scrolling for more information about each book on the list: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... tobiascarroll.bsky.social

We're pleased to announce the creation of two new CMUP poetry prizes, made possible by the generosity of @teppercmu.bsky.social professor Sridhar R. Tayur! Learn more: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...

Introducing our Fall 2025 titles, a full slate of poetry, fiction, and even our first academic title 🍁 Learn more about them here: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

from Tamiami Trail, publishing in just a few weeks ✨ link: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Tamiami Trail

Eighteen unforgettable stories of women navigating the beauty and chaos of Miami. The Tamiami Trail cuts through the contradictions of Miami: a city shaped by swamps and skyscrapers, violence and desi...

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Exposition Review@expositionreview.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“Agatha’s foot knocked one wine bottle into another and the clink was enough to force her eyes open.” Read the rest of Jennifer Bannan’s fiction piece THE PAIRS from Vol. X: “Spring” here: tinyurl.com/ExpoPairs.

My take on Jonathan Aaron’s wonderful “Just About Anything” @cmupress.bsky.social in @ronslate.bsky.social’s “On the Seawall”: “Aaron’s poetry, for the length of a few lines, a handful of pages, persuades us that things or people that are gone aren’t, in fact, lost.” www.ronslate.com/on-just-abou...

It's that time of year again! Submissions are open for poetry and fiction manuscripts. ➡️ Learn more: bit.ly/cmupress

Our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social are hosting a very cool event and it's less than a month away! See you there ✨

No notes* *says our editorial director, who's from over there

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · last yr.

The wind and the rain. The wind and the rain again and again. Ireland. Frances Harvey (Donegal Haiku published by Dedalus Press 2013)

CMUP author + fiction editor Sharon Dilworth was featured in the local Marquette, MI paper for her novel, To Be Marquette, which we published in Spring 2024 🏞 A wonderful (and well-deserved) article. Congrats Sharon!

“Timelessness of Trestles: An Appreciation of Sharon Dilworth’s Novel, ‘To Be Marquette’”

“I was miles away from Marquette.” — Sharon Dilworth There is a timelessness to Sharon Dilworth’s novel “To Be Marquette.” Her characters probably resemble many of us who questioned the Cold War and t...

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We are proud to have published two distinguished recent @cmu.edu lectures under our Tartan Editions imprint. The first is "With Eyes No Longer Blind: Vision and Visibility in Engineering" by Dr Gilda Barabino, 2024 recipient of the Dickson Prize in Science: dx.doi.org/10.1184/R1/2...

Did you hear that @kathdriskell.bsky.social, one of our fantastic Spring 25 poets, has been named Kentucky's poet laureate? Congratulations, Kathleen—so well deserved!

Kentucky Lantern@kentuckylantern.com · last yr.

Writers bring us ‘something particularly humane,’ says Kentucky's next poet laureate. Poet and teacher Kathleen Driskell will succeed Silas House. @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/17/w...

"Each piece here has its particular power and poignancy," writes Linda Parsons of Claudia Barnett's volume of six one-act plays about women in science. "And, most importantly, they leave you hungry for more." chapter16.org/the-scientis...

The Scientist’s Dilemma

“If I want people to listen, I need a Y chromosome,” says Barbara in Claudia Barnett’s short play I Knew She Was Right. Inspired by geneticist Barbara Mc…

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It's publication day for @kathdriskell.bsky.social, Jonathan Aaron, Virginia Conchan, Michael McGriff, and Claudia Barnett!

We're so excited about this one!

Dan Murphy@dmurphy.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy publication day to my friend & former professor, Jonathan Aaron! His new & selected poems, JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, is out today by @cmupress.bsky.social. Buy it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #writingcommunity

So pleased to see the brilliant @kathdriskell.bsky.social's Goat-Footed Gods on this list (Out now! Get your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)

Goat-Footed Gods

Poems that center on the sinister American cryptid, the Goatman of Pope Lick. In her sixth collection Goat-Footed Gods, award-winning poet, essayist, and teacher Kathleen Driskell seeks to rehabilitat...

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Southern Review of Books@southrevbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Early spring is the perfect time to read something that will help you notice the world around you. Check out these new Southern March releases! @beaconpress.bsky.social @cmupress.bsky.social @floridapress.bsky.social @umasspress.bsky.social @blairpub.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social

What a lovely @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social review of Virginia Konchan's Requiem lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-... (It's out now!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)

The Poetry of Grief | Los Angeles Review of Books

Eileen G’Sell reviews two new poetry collections, Virginia Konchan’s “Requiem” and Cass Donish’s “Your Dazzling Death.”

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Just ten more days to enter our literary translation and new play contests! www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Hey, look at that! A CMU Press alum reading at another CMU! (Not you, @cmichpress.bsky.social!) It's beginning to feel very Spiderman in here. www.fayettenewspapers.com/stories/awar...

Award-winning poet to deliver reading Thursday at CMU - The Fayette Advertiser

Central Methodist University will welcome American poet Allison Joseph for a reading on Thursday, February 20. A question and answer session will take place following the reading, which begins at &he...

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"Poised at the threshold of surprise, Aaron's poems relax into a kind of domestic surrealism that's both insightful and humorous, yet immediately recognizable, "asking / questions no one can answer / but asking anyway."" Fred Muratori in Library Journal Coming March 22 bookshop.org/p/books/just...

Just about Anything: New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems

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Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Dzvinia Orlowsky's Those Absences Now Closest named a Most Brilliant Book of 2024! www.brilliant-books.net/most-brillia...

We are really excited to announce that Carnegie Mellon University Press is holding two concurrent literary contests in 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest. Both will be accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, 2025. Find out more: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Hey, fellow #Pittsburgh lovers of words—think we can convince @pghdistrict8.bsky.social, @pghdistrict5.bsky.social and others on city council to take inspiration from the Scots and name our plows?

Writing for Wellbeing@writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 2y ago

Okay, at least there’s one good thing about the snow - Scotland’s gritter tracker website. Sled Zepplin. Lord Coldemort. Robert Brrrns. #snow #SnowUK #SnowDay