The Double Truth Chard deNiord “Sunday Calls,” from Chard deNiord’s collection The Double Truth, will be set to music by Jacob Cooper and featured during a May 15 concert by the chamber ensemble of the Albany Symphony. Cooper explained that the new song will be performed by vocalist Theo Bleckmann and the symphony’s chamber group “Dogs of Desire.” This concert is part of their annual American Music Festival, and part of Cooper’s two-year residency with the Albany Symphony. “For this concert, we’re each arranging songs and writing new ones,” he said. “The song I’m arranging is Kate Bush’s ‘Under Ice,’…

According to Sarah Galo at BuzzFeed Books, Pitt Poetry Series has published some poets that you must read. Two of our poets made the list: Paisley Rekdal and Rickey Laurentiis. Paisley Rekdal’s The Invention of the Kaleidoscope is a book of poetic elegies that discuss failures: failures of love, both sexual and spiritual; failures of the body; failures of science, art and technology; failures of nature, imagination, memory and, most importantly, the failures inherent to elegiac narratives and our formal attempt to memoralize the lost. But the book also explores the necessity of such narratives, as well as the creative possibilities implicit within the “failed…

The New York Times features Power on the Hudson by Robert Lifset in its article about a landmark case of ecology vs. energy production at Storm King Mountain. How a Hudson Highlands Mountain Shaped Tussles Over Energy and the Environment By Andrew C. Revkin |  April 14, 2015 Remembering Storm King | Lecture by Robert D. Lifset In the time that I have I want to think about three questions. First, why are we here? What precisely happened in the Hudson River valley in the 1960s and ‘70s? What was the nature of this environmental struggle? Second, why did it happen?…

A very special thank you to all the UPP authors and poets who stopped by our booth at AWP 2015 in Minneapolis. It was great to see everyone! Those in attendance included: Beth Bachmann, Christopher Bakken, Angela Ball, Quan Barry, Jan Beatty, Robin Becker, Richard Blanco, Mark Cox, Chard deNiord, Sharon Dolin, David Ebenbach, Ross Gay, Barbara Hamby, Nathalie Handal, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Kirsten Kaschock, Julia Kasdorf, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Dore Kiesselbach, Rickey Laurentiis, Nate Marshall, Jeffrey McDaniel, Richard Michelson, Mihaela Moscaliuc, Sarah Rose Nordgren, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Paisley Rekdal, J. Allyn Rosser, David Roderick, Ilyana Rocha, Glenn Shaheen, Anthony…

Donna Drucker’s book, The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge is featured in Times Literary Supplement (TLS). (Un)natural Sex By Ivan Crozier | March 18, 2015 Featured on The Times Literary Supplement Kinsey’s life has become more widely known since the publication of a biography by James Jones (1997), and, in 2004, the novel The Inner Circle by T. C. Boyle as well as a biopic starring Liam Neeson. Having completed his doctorate on gall wasps, Kinsey found himself in charge of a sexual education class for married students at Indiana University. A lack of sound information led…