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Sneak Peek: Forthcoming Poetry Books Fall 2015

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Sneak Peek: Forthcoming Poetry Books Fall 2015

Chard deNiord, Interstate Lynn Emanuel, The Nerve of It—Poems Selected and New Rickey Laurentiis, Boy with Thorn Circe Maia and Jesse Lee Kercheval, translator, The Invisible Bridge/El Puente Invisible: Selected Poems of Circe Maia Nathaniel Marshall, Wild Hundreds Iliana Rocha, Karankawa Ronald Wallace, For Dear Life.    

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AWP 2015 Minneapolis Conference Highlights

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AWP 2015 Minneapolis Conference Highlights

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…

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(Un)natural Sex in the Times Literary Supplement

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(Un)natural Sex in the Times Literary Supplement

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…

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See You in April

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See You in April

We hope to see you at these upcoming conferences: Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) April 8-11, 2015 Minneapolis, MN Convention Center awpwriter.org Representatives: David Baumann (Marketing Director), Maria Sticco (Publicist), Greta Polo (Web & Social Media Coordinator/Graphic Designer), and Alexander Wolfe (Editorial and Production Manager) AWP provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 500 college and university creative writing programs, and 130 writers’ conferences and centers. Their mission is to foster literary achievement, advance the art of writing as essential to a good education, and serve the makers, teachers, students, and readers of contemporary writing. Pitt Poets…

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Charles Harper Webb Gets on His Soapbox to Give Advice to Poets

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Charles Harper Webb Gets on His Soapbox to Give Advice to Poets

Pitt poet Charles Harper Webb, author of Brain Camp, has some rather controversial advice for today’s poets, and claims he can help them become better at their craft and sell more books! So, Publishers Weekly gave him a soapbox. A Cure for What Ails Poetry A poet argues that more accessible poems will lead to broader interest in poetry—and more sales By Charles Webb | Apr 03, 2015 Featured on Publishers Weekly Soapbox It’s no secret that the main audience for poetry is other poets. If you want to slow or even stop a party conversation, ask, “What new poets are you…

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