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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · 20d

from Tamiami Trail, publishing in just a few weeks ✨

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Christoph Irmscher @chrisirmscher.bsky.social · 26d

My take on Jonathan Aaron’s wonderful “Just About Anything” @cmupress.bsky.social in @ronslate.bsky.social’s “On the Seawall”: “Aaron’s poetry, for the length of a few lines, a handful of pages, persuades us that things or people that are gone aren’t, in fact, lost.” www.ronslate.com/on-just-abou...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's that time of year again! Submissions are open for poetry and fiction manuscripts.

➡️ Learn more: bit.ly/cmupress

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Aug 14

Our friends at @upittpress.bsky.social are hosting a very cool event and it's less than a month away!

See you there ✨

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jul 22

No notes*

*says our editorial director, who's from over there

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · Jul 22

The wind and the rain.
The wind and the rain again
and again. Ireland.

Frances Harvey (Donegal Haiku published by Dedalus Press 2013)

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jul 22

Buy the book here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

To Be Marquette

In this compelling campus novel, a college freshman exposes hidden secrets as she fights for environmental justice in Marquette. Arriving in Marquette for her freshman year at Northern Michigan Univer...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jul 22

CMUP author + fiction editor Sharon Dilworth was featured in the local Marquette, MI paper for her novel, To Be Marquette, which we published in Spring 2024 🏞

A wonderful (and well-deserved) article. Congrats Sharon!

“Timelessness of Trestles: An Appreciation of Sharon Dilworth’s Novel, ‘To Be Marquette’”

“I was miles away from Marquette.” — Sharon Dilworth There is a timelessness to Sharon Dilworth’s novel “To Be Marquette.” Her characters probably resemble many of us who questioned the Cold War and t...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · May 2

The second, by Hollywood director, producer, and writer (and @cmu.edu alum) John Wells, is "The Value of Narrative Storytelling in Polarized Times" dx.doi.org/10.1184/R1/2...

The Value of Narrative Storytelling in Polarized Times

This lecture was first presented on April 9, 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, as part of the President's Lecture Series, by John Wells, Hollywood director, producer, and writer—and ...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · May 2

We are proud to have published two distinguished recent @cmu.edu lectures under our Tartan Editions imprint.

The first is "With Eyes No Longer Blind: Vision and Visibility in Engineering" by Dr Gilda Barabino, 2024 recipient of the Dickson Prize in Science: dx.doi.org/10.1184/R1/2...

With Eyes No Longer Blind: Vision and Visibility in Engineering

This lecture was first presented on February 19, 2025 at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, as part of the University Lecture Series, by Dr. Gilda A. Barabino, recipient of the 2024 Dickson P...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Apr 22

Here's one of our favorites from her latest collection. This is "Sulky Achilles" from Goat-Footed Gods.
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Sulky Achilles
That's him over there—
alone, on his haunches
next to the campfire,
playing with a stick,
stirring sparks into
the hateful sky. "Fuck
Agamemnon," he mutters,
relicking his paw. He's
withdrawn and mopey,
grumpy over a girl—
he stole her first, gods
dammit. Behind him,
his buddies, faces fear
filled and green, clank
swords with the enemy
on the wine-colored fields
of Troy. He shrugs. He's
just not feeling the fury,
though wrath has always
been his gift, his thing.
And he'll unfurl it
without mercy on Hector,
and Andromache, and
Priam, and so on, he will,
but that's later. Right now,
he's promising himself,
he'll never be dumb enough
to drop his armor again. Go
big or go home, amirite?

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Apr 22

Did you hear that @kathdriskell.bsky.social, one of our fantastic Spring 25 poets, has been named Kentucky's poet laureate? Congratulations, Kathleen—so well deserved!

Kentucky Lantern @kentuckylantern.com · Apr 17

Writers bring us ‘something particularly humane,’ says Kentucky's next poet laureate.

Poet and teacher Kathleen Driskell will succeed Silas House.

@sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2025/04/17/w...

Writers bring us 'something particularly humane,' says KY's next poet laureate • Kentucky Lantern

Poet and teacher Kathleen Driskell of Oldham County will be Kentucky’s next poet laureate, succeeding Silas House.

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Apr 4

"Each piece here has its particular power and poignancy," writes Linda Parsons of Claudia Barnett's volume of six one-act plays about women in science. "And, most importantly, they leave you hungry for more." chapter16.org/the-scientis...

The Scientist’s Dilemma

“If I want people to listen, I need a Y chromosome,” says Barbara in Claudia Barnett’s short play I Knew She Was Right. Inspired by geneticist Barbara Mc…

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Mar 24

It's publication day for @kathdriskell.bsky.social, Jonathan Aaron, Virginia Conchan, Michael McGriff, and Claudia Barnett!

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Mar 24

We're so excited about this one!

Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 22

Happy publication day to my friend & former professor, Jonathan Aaron! His new & selected poems, JUST ABOUT ANYTHING, is out today by @cmupress.bsky.social.

Buy it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

#poetrycommunity #poetrysky #writingcommunity

Just About Anything

A probing collection of new and selected poetry from Jonathan Aaron. A poem uses words to try to get at what can't be put into words. The best poems remain just out of reach; something in or about the...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Mar 19

So pleased to see the brilliant @kathdriskell.bsky.social's Goat-Footed Gods on this list (Out now! Get your copy at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Mar 19

What a lovely @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social review of Virginia Konchan's Requiem lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
(It's out now!) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)

The Poetry of Grief | Los Angeles Review of Books

Eileen G’Sell reviews two new poetry collections, Virginia Konchan’s “Requiem” and Cass Donish’s “Your Dazzling Death.”

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Feb 19

paging @cmupress-ca.bsky.social !!

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Feb 18

Just ten more days to enter our literary translation and new play contests! www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Calls and Contests - Carnegie Mellon University Press - Carnegie Mellon University

Submit your work now! Carnegie Mellon University Press announces two concurrent literary contests for 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest, both accepting submissions from Janua...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Feb 18

Hey, look at that! A CMU Press alum reading at another CMU! (Not you, @cmichpress.bsky.social!) It's beginning to feel very Spiderman in here. www.fayettenewspapers.com/stories/awar...

Award-winning poet to deliver reading Thursday at CMU - The Fayette Advertiser

Central Methodist University will welcome American poet Allison Joseph for a reading on Thursday, February 20. A question and answer session will take place following the reading, which begins at &he...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jan 30

"Poised at the threshold of surprise, Aaron's poems relax into a kind of domestic surrealism that's both insightful and humorous, yet immediately recognizable, "asking / questions no one can answer / but asking anyway."" Fred Muratori in Library Journal

Coming March 22
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Just about Anything: New and Selected Poems

New and Selected Poems

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jan 22

Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it:

www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Calls and Contests - Carnegie Mellon University Press - Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University Press announces two concurrent literary contests for 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest, both accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, ...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jan 22

Our open submission period (for new plays and literary translation) is now live! Read more about it:

www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Calls and Contests - Carnegie Mellon University Press - Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University Press announces two concurrent literary contests for 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest, both accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, ...

www.cmu.edu

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jan 7

Dzvinia Orlowsky's Those Absences Now Closest named a Most Brilliant Book of 2024! www.brilliant-books.net/most-brillia...

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jan 7

We are really excited to announce that Carnegie Mellon University Press is holding two concurrent literary contests in 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest. Both will be accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, 2025. Find out more: www.cmu.edu/universitypr...

Open Contests - Carnegie Mellon University Press - Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University Press announces two concurrent literary contests for 2025: a Literary Translation Contest and a New Play Contest, both accepting submissions from January 21 to February 28, ...

www.cmu.edu

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Carnegie Mellon University Press @cmupress.bsky.social · Jan 5

Hey, fellow #Pittsburgh lovers of words—think we can convince @pghdistrict8.bsky.social, @pghdistrict5.bsky.social and others on city council to take inspiration from
the Scots and name our plows?

Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · Jan 5

Okay, at least there’s one good thing about the snow - Scotland’s gritter tracker website.
Sled Zepplin. Lord Coldemort. Robert Brrrns. #snow #SnowUK #SnowDay

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