The 2025 reading period for the Pitt Poetry Series is now open.

Submissions to the Pitt Poetry Series are open to any poet writing in English who has published at least one full-length poetry collection. The qualification of prior full-length publication is defined as a book of 48 or more pages, exclusive of front matter, in a recognized publisher’s print edition of at least 500 copies.

Poets who have not published a book before, or only in limited editions of less than 500 copies, or who have published chapbooks, should refer to the rules for our first-book competition, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.

Submissions will be accepted until September 30, 2025.  Details about how to submit can be found on our website: https://upittpress.org/poetry-submissions/  

 

About the Pitt Poetry Series

Since its inception in 1967, the Pitt Poetry Series has been a vehicle for America’s finest contemporary poets. The series list includes Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco, Poet Laureate Billy Collins, Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Lynn Emanuel, Ross Gay, Etheridge Knight, Reginald Shepherd, Larry Levis, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sharon Olds, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Paul Hlava Ceballos, David Hernandez, Joy Priest, and many others.

Throughout its history, the Pitt Poetry 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.

The Pitt Poetry Series editors are Nancy Krygowski and Jeffrey McDaniel.