|9780822968351|Poems|retrovirology oscillates between Queer childhood erasure and the AIDS epidemic, pulling from the ACT UP oral history project, informal interviews with survivors, and AIDS historians Sarah Schulman and David France. While some poems elegize key figures of AIDS history such as Larry Kramer and Gaëton Dugas, others operate as ekphrasis against the creative artwork of ACT UP’s direct actions. Combining reinterpretations of formal elements such as the concrete poem, the abecedarian, and the villanelle, post-confessional poems converse with a docupoetic history through an arc that examines what it meant to grow up Queer as a child in rural Pennsylvania in…

|9780822967651|Poems| Included in LitHub’s Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026Steeplechase explores multiple landscapes, including Mississippi and its many church steeples; countries known and unknown; cities and inhabitants both aspirational and lost. Its voice is humorous, bewildered, disillusioned, hopeful. The book’s temporal setting is the two years of extra life granted a partner after catastrophic illness and surgery: love’s last compelling season. | Angela Ball| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General Poetry / Subjects & Themes / Places

|9780822968016|Revised Edition| Included in LitHub’s Most Anticipated Poetry of 2026 Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a representative life of our time. | Larry Levis Paisley Rekdal| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General

|9780822948971|45th Anniversary Edition| A Stunning 45th Anniversary Release of Sharon Olds’s Satan Says in a Gorgeous Hardcover Edition for Fans of Olds’s Poetry, All Poetry Enthusiasts, and Collectors Alike This 45th anniversary hardcover deluxe edition of the bestselling debut collection of poetry by Sharon Olds now includes an introduction by Diane Seuss. Satan Says was originally published in the Pitt Poetry Series in 1980 and received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. | Sharon Olds Diane Seuss| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General

|9780822967279|Poems|Dragstripping, Jan Beatty’s seventh collection of poems, takes readers to the literal dragstrip, the metaphorical dragstrip of the body, and the strip club, where the ecstatic is rescripted and where women disappear and reappear in the crosscut of gender. Transgressing into and out of poetic form, Beatty writes the fractured landscape of the unknown woman, breaking rules of grammar and subverting expected speech, mixing the real and unreal, and finding elation in a strange and shifting land.| Jan Beatty| Pitt Poetry Series| Poetry / American / General Poetry / General Poetry / Women Authors