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The Pitt Poetry Series was established in 1968 by press director Frederick A. Hetzel and press editor Paul Zimmer.The Series received initial funding through the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust and its president Theodore L. Hazlett, via the agency of the International Poetry Forum and its director, Samuel Hazo.
The press is especially known for literary publishing, particularly its Pitt Poetry Series, the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, [3] and the Drue Heinz Literature Prize. The press also publishes the winner of the annual Donald Hall Prize, awarded by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs and the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
Hot Metal Bridge was the official literary magazine for the University of Pittsburgh’s graduate Department of English. [1] [2] [3] Founded in 2001 as Nidus, Hot Metal Bridge published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, and book reviews. [4]
Martha Collins (born 1940) is a poet, translator, and editor. She has published eleven books of poetry, including Casualty Reports (Pitt Poetry Series, 2022), Because What Else Could I Do (Pitt Poetry Series, 2019), Night Unto Night (Milkweed, 2018), Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pitt Poetry Series, 2016), Day Unto Day (Milkweed, 2014), White Papers (Pitt Poetry Series, 2012), and Blue ...
Anderson's first book, Looking for Jonathan, was an inaugural selection of the Pitt Poetry Series of the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1967. His second, Death & Friends, was nominated for the National Book Award. Looking for Jonathan, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968)
Cooking in Key West, poetry (Easthampton: Adastra Press, 2000) Snow White Horses: Selected Poems 1973–1988, poetry (Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2000) The Land of Cockaigne, poetry (Ashland: Story Line Press, 2001) American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology, poetry anthology, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) The ...
The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is named for a former director of the Press.
The International Poetry Forum (IPF) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1966 by Samuel John Hazo in Pittsburgh, PA. [1] Since its inception, the IPF has hosted poetry readings and educational programs by over 800 poets and performers from more than 50 countries at the Carnegie Lecture Hall, Carnegie Music Hall, Heinz Hall, and other venues in Pittsburgh. [2]