Collaborations with Pitt Poetry Series

From 1967–1976, a jury of poet-judges including Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, May Swenson, and others presented the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award and International Award, which included manuscript publication through the University of Pittsburgh Press. These awards gave rise to the Pitt Poetry Series, which remains a major voice in poetry publishing today. During this period, the IPF and the University of Pittsburgh Press collaborated in publishing nearly 50 books, including works by Archibald MacLeish, May Swenson, and Nobel Laureates Tomas Tranströmer and Odysseus Elytis.

  • Jon Anderson, LOOKING FOR JONATHAN (1968)

  • James Den Boer, LEARNING THE WAY (1968)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • John Engels, THE HOMER MITCHELL PLACE (1968)

  • Samuel Hazo, BLOOD RIGHTS (1968)

  • David Steingass, BODY COMPASS (1968)

  • Jack Anderson, THE INVENTION OF NEW JERSEY (1969)

  • Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, SELECTED POEMS (1969)

    Translated by Talât Sait Halman; recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award

  • Gary Gildner, FIRST PRACTICE (1969)

  • David P. Young, SWEATING OUT THE WINTER (1969)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Jon Anderson, DEATH & FRIENDS (1970)

    Finalist for the National Book Award

  • Gerald W. Barrax, ANOTHER KIND OF RAIN (1970)

  • Abbie Huston Evans, COLLECTED POEMS (1970)

  • Michael S. Harper, DEAR JOHN, DEAR COLTRANE (1970)

    Finalist for the National Book Award

  • Shirley Kaufman, THE FLOOR KEEPS TURNING (1970)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Ed Roberson, WHEN THY KING IS A BOY (1970)

  • Adonis, THE BLOOD OF ADONIS (1971)

    Translated by Samuel Hazo; recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award

  • James Den Boer, TRYING TO COME APART (1971)

  • Norman Dubie, ALEHOUSE SONNETS (1971)

  • Gary Gildner, DIGGING FOR INDIANS (1971)

  • Dennis Scott, UNCLE TIME (1971)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award

  • Richard Shelton, THE TATTOOED DESERT (1971)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Michael S. Harper, SONG: I WANT A WITNESS (1972)

  • Samuel Hazo, ONCE FOR THE LAST BANDIT (1972)

    Finalist for the National Book Award

  • Larry Levis, WRECKING CREW (1972)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Richard Shelton, OF ALL THE DIRTY WORDS (1972)

  • Tomas Tranströmer, WINDOWS & STONES: SELECTED POEMS (1972)

    Translated by May Swenson and Leif Sjöberg. Finalist for the National Book Award; recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award; 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Shirley Kaufman, GOLD COUNTRY (1973)

  • Abba Kovner, A CANOPY IN THE DESERT (1973)

    Translated by Shirley Kaufman with Ruth Adler and Nurit Orchan; recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award

  • Tom Lowenstein (trans.), ESKIMO POEMS FROM CANADA AND GREENLAND (1973)

    From material originally collected by Knud Rasmussen. Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award

  • Belle Randall, 101 DIFFERENT WAYS OF PLAYING SOLITAIRE AND OTHER POEMS (1973)

  • David Steingass, AMERICAN HANDBOOK (1973)

  • Marc Weber, 48 SMALL POEMS (1973)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Jon Anderson, IN SEPIA (1974)

  • John Balaban, AFTER OUR WAR (1974)

  • Michael Culross, THE LOST HEROES (1974)

  • Odysseus Elytis, THE AXION ESTI (1974)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award; 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature

  • Brendan Galvin, NO TIME FOR GOOD REASONS (1974)

  • Samuel Hazo, QUARTERED (1974)

  • Judith Minty, LAKE SONGS AND OTHER FEARS (1974)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Herbert Scott, DISGUISES (1974)

  • Alberta T. Turner, LEARNING TO COUNT (1974)

  • Archibald MacLeish, THE GREAT AMERICAN FOURTH OF JULY PARADE (1975)

    Bicentennial Selection of the International Poetry Forum; supported by a grant from the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. Play premiered in Pittsburgh at the International Poetry Forum with Academy Award-winners Melvyn Douglas and John Houseman and Tony Award-winner George Grizzard

  • Thomas Rabbitt, EXILE (1975)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Denis de Rougemont, THE GROWL OF DEEPER WATERS (1976)

    Translated by Samuel Hazo and Beth Luey; recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award

  • Mark Halperin, BACKROADS (1976)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Paul-Marie LaPointe, THE TERROR OF THE SNOWS (1976)

    Translated by Douglas Jones; recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s International Award

  • Dannie Abse, COLLECTED POEMS 1948–1976 (1977)

  • Gary Soto, THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN (1977)

    Recipient of the International Poetry Forum’s United States Award

  • Milne Holton and Graham W. Reid (ed.), READING THE ASHES: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE POETRY OF MODERN MACEDONIA (1977)

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