University of Pittsburgh Press is celebrating summertime with our annual Summer Poetry Sale. Kick back and relax at your favorite vacation spot with titles from the acclaimed Pitt Poetry Series, featuring two former Poet Laureates (Billy Collins and Ted Kooser) along with many other well-known poets. Poetry sale details: here  In honor of the Fourth of July, we take a light-hearted approach to Americana, with a twist on the classic apple pie. This recipe for Fried Apple Pies is from More than Moonshine: Appalachian Recipes and Recollections by Sidney Saylor Farr. Fried Apple Pies 2 c. flour 1 tsp. salt ½…

  What Makes a Good Experiment?: Reasons and Roles in Science by Allan Franklin   The Crown and the Cosmos: Astrology and the Politics of Maximilian I by Darin Hayton   Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem Edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, and Andrew Pickering   World’s Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937–1942 by Robert Kargon, Karen Fiss, Morris Low, and Arthur Molella    

Three Pitt poets have received 2015 honors from The Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College. The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog by Alicia Suskin Ostriker has been selected for the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement (for previous winners of the Paterson Poetry Prize). City of Eternal Spring by Afaa Michael Weaver has been selected for the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence (for previous finalists of the Paterson Poetry Prize). Bloom in Reverse by Teresa Leo was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Congratulations all around!  

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,’…

We hope to see you at these upcoming conferences: American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) April 29-May 3, 2015 New Haven, CT histmed.org Representative: Abby Collier (Acquisitions Editor)   Latin American Studies Association (LASA) May 27-30, 2015 San Juan, Puerto Rico lasa.international.pitt.edu Representative: Joshua Shanholtzer (Sr. Acquisitions Editor)