Kingdom The movement of a fly becomes a rational thought— there are boys and then there are boys —

Today's Feature:

"Kingdom" by @briangyamfi.bsky.social from What God in the Kingdom of Bastards published by @upittpress.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Gordon McKim lived with Etheridge Knight during the last year of his life. "Freedom and Confinement" is the result of their conversations, an intimate dialogue that invites readers into the poet's legacy and the voices that shaped it.
Discover more: bit.ly/4siAE0B @upittpress.bsky.social

The book "with snow pouring southward past the window" on a wooden surface: the cover art is by Tulluk, "Kubulujuu," 2024, pen on paper. It shows a drawing in black pen on white ground of a bird-angel-figure rising above a stylized sea and an island/iceberg with two stick figures on it (possibly a man and a woman). Seedlike shapes fall from the bird-angel-figure and form a heart-like shape as they do so. The sky is dotted, maybe insinuating constellations. The title forms a half-circle around the figure to its right

Elixirs for words to come The first thing I will do: make myself indecipherable to you, for our understanding revises a kind of hunger. My language has taken on all manner of smog. I come to fear: "I come to fear" the things that inspire me in the wake of our destroyers. I dream of my dead peers. I see how they do not want pretty things. I know they do not want me to describe pain of any kind. They gesture to the gold dredges hinging into the earth, [cont'd on next slide]

they sink down as gelisol thaws, as we all slink down into a kind of hell. Let us wash ourselves in those waters. Let us thirst because we cannot drink them. Let our mothers tell us of their girlhoods: the ones they lost when they rolled willow leaves tight in toilet paper: smoked not to get high, not to die, but only to see visions of Mary, that Mary, who was some kind of mother.

In which the poems and poets agree that they are the result of choices they have made along the way The silver of the lake caught in the net, like a provocation. The translation under the writing— "How long have you been running?" I tried to answer, am still trying. A poem, too, holds secrets that it cannot tell. Gone septic from a spider bite, the anger only troubles like sorrow until it goes away. "You wish you were home?" Yes. But— mitiktuq—it came unraveled. I used to think I preferred to dream with a man only afdter he bedded me and then there are the real poems where the language creates it own tension. Where the language reminds us to create a story and to become part of it, to stay alive until we come back.

"The first thing I will do: make / myself indecipherable / to you, for // our understanding / revises a kind of hunger."

Let your hunger be revised by @naviyuk.bsky.social's WITH SNOW POURING SOUTHWARD PAST THE WINDOW (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2026) in a way only she can. 💫✨💫

#NationalPoetryMonth

Friends! I know the world is burning. But, just for a moment, you can celebrate with me: This is the cover of my book of poems. Can't thank Alex Wolfe enough for this crisp attention to graphic design. And feeling very eager to hold this spine in my hands!

the cover of retrovirology by John Bonanni

COVER REVEAL

We're thrilled to share the cover for retrovirology by @bananascallops.bsky.social, winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, selected by @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social

Details and preorders are now available on our website: upittpress.org/books/978082...

Promotional graphic for Wallace in the Field: Ethnographic Expeditions and the Rise of Anthropology by Victor Rafael Limeira-DaSilva. On the left, the book cover shows an illustrated tropical scene with palm trees, a house, and a figure standing in the foreground. On the right, text describes Alfred Russel Wallace’s role in advancing anthropology through global travel and ethnographic study. The background is light blue with palm tree illustrations and the University of Pittsburgh Press logo.

🌴 Recasting Alfred Russel Wallace as a pioneering anthropologist, "Wallce in the Field" traces his global fieldwork and ambition, showing how ethnographic encounters and racial science shaped new standards of authority in #Victorian science.
@upittpress.bsky.social
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Cover art for The Decadent Movemen: Self-portrait of Sabine Lepsius, 1885, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

We're thrilled to share the cover for The Decadent Movement by Laura Kolbe, which will be published in September as part of the Pitt Poetry Series.

Details and preorder now available on our website: upittpress.org/books/978082...

Check out Jennifer Eaglin's review of Maria Rentetzi, Angela N. H. Creager, & M. Susan Lindee, "Negotiating Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Age," published in 2025 by @upittpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #nuclear #envhum
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😷 How did cholera, syphilis, and mental illness shape the making of modern #Tokyo? Upcoming this season, "Mapping Medical Modernity" traces how policy, urban space, and medical capitalism intertwined to remake public health in Meiji-era Japan.
Find out more: bit.ly/40rCyQZ
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Thanks to the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for this terrific interview with Erica Morawski about her new book, Development Design: Hotels and Politics in the Hispanic Caribbean!
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Promotional graphic for the book Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine: Theorizing Social Change by Deema Kaneff (University of Pittsburgh Press). On a green background, a quote from Francis Pine reads: “tells a story of resilience, of adaptation to change, and of new possibilities…” The book cover appears on the right, featuring photos of people working in a rural field and a group gathered around a table, with the University of Pittsburgh Press logo at the bottom.

In "Resources and Everyday Conflicts in Rural Ukraine," Deema Kaneff's ethnographic research in a rural Bulgarian community reveals how post-socialist resource redistribution reshaped local conflicts, alliances, and social relations.
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Flyer for talk at UCLA by Bridget Chesterton. Image contains a picture of a woman cooking with Arisco products.

Flyer for my upcoming talk at UCLA. It is based on my forthcoming book Pitt. @upittpress.bsky.social

#AAG2026 diaspora: browse @upittpress.bsky.social's online book sale here:
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Putting the value in virtual!

Or grab a time slot to visit with editor Mick Gusinde-Duffy:
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New book review:
McDonald on Mazanik, Anna: _Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Russia_. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20145406

A flyer advertising a reading: Lebanon Valley College & Writing: A Life presents a reading by Kasey Jueds on Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m. in Bishop Library Atrium. The reading will also be streamed on Zoom. Flyer shows a photo of Jueds, a white woman with curly blond hair, standing in a forest.

Join us at @lebanonvalley.bsky.social's Bishop Library on Thursday, March 19 at 7 p.m. Eastern for a reading by Kasey Jueds (@kaseyryoen.bsky.social), whose latest collection THE THICKET (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2021) is a marvel! Not nearby? Register for the Zoom here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Catherine Boland Erkkila, Spaces of Immigration: American Ports, Railways, and Settlements - @upittpress.bsky.social, April 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Matt Wells
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Joan Naviyuk Kane : with snow pouring southward past the window | Milkweed Editions When Cynthia Cruz describes Joan Naviyuk Kane’s latest collection as a series of poems that “both shows and enacts how a self is brought to being through the abyss,” I think of Kane’s own words about ...

Don't miss today's conversation with poet Joan Naviyuk Kane about her latest collection "with snow pouring southward past the window"
Audio📻❄️: milkweed.org/between-the-...
@upittpress.bsky.social @naviyuk.bsky.social @milkweededitions.bsky.social @guggfellows.bsky.social

Our #AAS2026 conference sale is underway! Use code 29AAS26 at checkout to receive a 30% discount and free domestic shipping on featured titles from March 10 to April 15.
Details here: upittpress.org/aas-conferen...

Kameryn Alexa Carter, interviewed by Tsahai Makeda, about her debut poetry collection ANTEDILUVIAN

debutiful.net/2026/03/11/a... @upittpress.bsky.social

Portlanders, come join me in celebrating Joan's latest, unforgettable poetry collection, this Sunday at Powell's!

Portland friends, this is going to be a good one!

Joan Naviyuk Kane in Conversation With David Naimon Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209 Sunday, March 15th 7:00 PM

PORTLAND!

Joan Naviyuk Kane in Conversation With David Naimon

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Powell's City of Books
1005 W Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209

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Sunday, March 15th

7:00 PM

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iliġanamiik @powells.bsky.social & @davidnaimon.bsky.social &
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Narco-Democratization | Home Organized Crime and Political Transition in Bolivia

Two talks coming-up this month to support the launch of my new book, Narco-Democratization @upittpress.bsky.social. See below for details.

Paperback (with 20 percent discount) is available to preorder here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

We're thrilled that *two* LDS presses are finalists for the Foreword Indie Awards 2025.
University of Georgia Press and University of Pittsburgh Press are among the nominees.
See the full list: bit.ly/4bu7cPT
Explore UGAP and UPP titles: bit.ly/4dhzoqm
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Review: A poet’s reclamation of space In a time when truths are currently shaped by the whims and impulsivity of the most loud and tyrannical, or only revealed between the gaps of redactions...

Veronica Corpuz reviews Joan Naviyuk Kane @naviyuk.bsky.social, _with snow pouring southward past the window_ @upittpress.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/ae/books/202...
"an exercise of semantic and syntactical calisthenics that stretches this reader’s habits of reading and meaning making"

The tote bags from @upittpress.bsky.social really held up from schlepping 30lbs of books through Baltimore and 2 airports 🌟

No Longer Messing Around - Pittsburgh Review of Books Poet Bobby Elliott explains that he has no interest in “fucking around on the page.” With a writer’s disdain of “obfuscation” and the 2025 University of

“Poet Bobby Elliott explains that he has no interest in ‘fucking around on the page.’” By Fred Shaw. @upittpress.bsky.social

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Recent titles from @upittpress.bsky.social at #4c26 upittpress.org/cccc-confere...

University of Pittsburgh Press at AAG - Mick Gusinde-Duffy Mick Gusinde-Duffy, Editor at Large for U Pitt Press will be available for book meetings throughout the conference. Bring your groundbreaking political geography projects for discussion.Learn more abo...

A reminder that @upittpress.bsky.social will be gracing the halls of #AAG2026 in Mick-spatial form (@mickodopolous.bsky.social). Let's book a time to talk about books:

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Take Me to Stavanger Take me to Stavanger. With limpid northern eyes

Today’s Feature:

“Take Me to Stavanger” by Anzhelina Polonskaya, translated by Andrew Wachtel from Take Me to Stavanger published by @upittpress.bsky.social

Read here:
poems.com/poem/take-me...