Get inspired by some of our recent books featuring a feminist perspective. Scald Denise Duhamel POETRY “As much a manifesto as it is a book of poems, Scald is Denise Duhamel’s great feminist statement—by way of pantoums and villanelles, of course. But more than a feminist, I would say that Duhamel is a humanitarian. Her words dignify the disenfranchised. Glory to Denise Duhamel for her formal ingenuity and her gleeful political imagination.”—David Trinidad   Blood Memory Colleen McElroy POETRY “She is the last woman of her line. Her new poems end and begin with A. Phillip Randolph and Pullman Porters,…

We’re giving away 50 poetry books! Enter to win. WHY Pitt Poetry Series is celebrating its 50th Anniversary—and we’re giving you the gifts! WHAT Ten lucky poetry fans will get their pick of any five Pitt poetry books in print. HOW Stop by our booth (355) at the 2017 AWP conference in Washington, DC (February 8-11) and sign up OR enter your info on the entry form below. Contest ends on February 28, 2017 at 11:59pm. Five winners will be chosen from the AWP entries and five winners will be chosen from the online entries. The ten winners will receive an email notification…

Listen to a special interview of Johann Egvall, author of The State as Investment Market by Sean Guillory on Sean’s Russia Blog. In it, he describes the model of corruption in Kyrgyzstan that is endemic not only to the region of Central Asia, but also to Russia, the Ukraine, and elsewhere. Sean Guillory also gives special mention to University of Pittsburgh Press’ Central Eurasia in Context Series, edited by Douglas Northrop, that has published numerous book on the region of Central Eurasia.  The State as Investment Market  Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective Johan Engvall                Johan Engvall is a…

Event dates and times:  Wednesday, Oct. 26, 4-6 p.m. University of Dayton Bookstore Marianist Hall 300 College Park Dayton, OH  45469 Free and Open to the Public – Friday October 28, 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble-South Hills 301 South Hills Village Pittsburgh, PA 15241 Free and Open to the Public – Saturday October 29, 2 p.m. Penguin Bookshop 417 Beaver St. Sewickley, PA 15143 Free and Open to the Public – BOOK LAUNCH The Life and Legacy of Chuck Noll with Pittsburgh Steelers Greats Joe Greene, Rocky Bleier, and Tunch Ilkin  Sunday October 30, 1 p.m. Heinz History Center 1212…

University of Pittsburgh Presents the Drue Heinz Literature Prize Reading Thursday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m. O’Hara Student Center 4024 O’Hara St. Pittsburgh, PA  15213 Free, open to the public Followed by book signing Featuring Melissa Yancy Author of Dog Years Winner of the 2016 Drue Heinz Literature Prize Richard Russo Judge Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Everybody’s Fool Dog Years Melissa Yancy “Yancy breaks through her characters’ surfaces of isolation and pretense to explore the uncharted yet universal depths of human emotion. Opening with the title story, a vignette about a couple, both geneticists, grappling with their son’s muscular dystrophy in…