Poetry News & Events

Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Alan Gilbert has published a new edition of his epic poem The Everyday Life of Design.

Writing alum Jaia Hamid Bashir ’20 has published her debut chapbook Desire/Halves with Nine Syllables Press.

In his debut poetry collection, Decay Studies (Six Gallery Press), alum Arthur Seefahrt ’14 extracts moments of silence out of beautiful noise. 

Poetry student Calleja Smiley Welsh has been awarded the inaugural Richard Howard Memorial Prize in Poetry, named after late Writing professor and beloved mentor Richard Howard.

In The Glittering Maw, a translation by writing alumna C. Francis Fisher ’23 of Syrian-Jewish surrealist poet Joyce Mansour, will be published by World Poetry in May 2024. 

Pleasure Principle, a debut poetry collection by writing alumna Madeleine Cravens ’22, will be published by Scribner in June, 2024. 

WATCHNIGHT, the Laughlin Award-winning collection by writing alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books this April. 

Writing alumna Meg Matich ’15 has translated Ásta Sigurðardóttir's Nothing To Be Rescued (Nordisk Books, 2023), introducing her stories to English-speaking readers for the first time.

Carlie Hoffman '16 has been awarded a 2024 National Jewish Book Award for her poetry collection When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023). 

Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith ’97 recently published To Free the Captives, a new memoir, with Knopf. 

Another Land of My Body, a new poetry collection by Writing alumnus Rodney Terich Leonard ’18, will be published by Four Way Books in March 2024. 

Writing alum Nathan Xavier Osorio '16 has been named the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize for his collection Querida. This collection, which will be Osorio’s debut, will be published by The University of Pittsburgh Press as part of the acclaimed Pitt Poetry Series on September 10, 2024.