The Pitt Poetry Series at the University of Pittsburgh Press continues its tradition of publishing the finest contemporary poetry by announcing the forthcoming publication of the following collections:

• Steeplechase by Angela Ball: In a voice that is humorous, bewildered, disillusioned, hopeful, Steeplechase explores multiple landscapes, countries known and unknown, cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. On sale 2/10/2026

 

• Antediluvian by Kameryn Alexa Carter: “Engaging with themes of the ecstatic, desire, mental illness, and spirituality, Antediluvian’s speaker calls on an intertextual constellation of artists as they attempt to wade through agoraphobia, parse out their relationship with God, and navigate falling in love. The landscape of the book is a deep dive into the speaker’s psyche, and what it means to push past the confines of one’s oppressive interior. On Sale 2/24/2026

 

• Gravitation by Milan Děžinský, translated by Nathan Fields: Milan Děžinský is the winner of the 2018 Magnesia Litera Award and one of the Czech Republic’s most respected poets. Gravitation, translated by Nathan Fields, features poems from Děžinský’s three most recent collections in Czech. On Sale 3/3/2026

 

• Fire Series by Kelly Hoffer: Fire Series began as an experiment in working recursively through the specialized diction of fire investigators, using technical phrases such as “structured fire,” “foliage freeze,” and “fire interval” to generate poems. Fire is both destructive and regenerative; at times vengeful, at others cleansing. Fire Series entertains the many strands of this fiery lineage as it undertakes a poetic investigation into grief and sex, loneliness and restlessness within intimacy, and language’s ability to make, unmake, and remake things. On Sale 2/17/2026

 

• with snow pouring southward past the window by Joan Naviyuk Kane: The poems themselves toil up from the waters and lands and sites of inhabitation and abandonment, however temporary, and spin across ice and land like a voice and or the trace of a voice only as it arises from acute, iridescent blues. If weather is a metaphor, and the circumstances of midlife a structure, with snow pouring southward past the window situates its speakers as agential, disentangling, resituating. On sale 3/3/2026

 

About the Pitt Poetry Series

 

Since its inception in 1967, the Pitt Poetry Series has been a vehicle for the finest contemporary poets. Throughout its history, the series has provided a voice for the diversity that is American poetry, representing poets from many backgrounds without allegiance to any one school or style.

Nancy Krygowski’s book Velocity won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize in 2006, and her most recent poetry collection is The Woman in the Corner. She teaches poetry  in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic program.

Jeffrey McDaniel is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Holiday in the Islands of Grief. Other books include Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, The Endarkenment, The Splinter Factory, The Forgiveness Parade, and Alibi School. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in the Hudson Valley.