Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Publishers of Poetry, Prose, and Poetics Since 1971

New & Noteworthy

Barn Owl Review's Mother Was a Tragic Girl by Sandra Simonds

Booksult Review's The Grief Performance by Emily Kendal Frey

Congratulations to Samuel Amadon whose collection THE HARTFORD BOOK is #9 on SPD's Poetry Bestsellers list for April! We think you should buy it too.

The Hartford Book by Samuel Amadon is reviewed at Publishers Weekly.

A great review of Elyse Fenton's Clamor is now up at Fringe Magazine online.

Congratulations to Emily Kendal Frey whose collection The Grief Performance has just been named as an Oregon Book Award finalist!

A new review of Shane McCrae's MULE at The Southeast Review Online.

Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance makes the list of the top 30 poetry books of 2011 from Coldfront Magazine @

Lily Brown's Rust or Go Missing and Emily Kendal Frey's The Grief Performance make No Tell Motel's Bestest Poetry Books of 2011 list @

Congratulations to Shane McCrae, author of Mule, and Elyse Fenton, author of Clamor, whose books are on the 2011 SPD annual poetry bestseller list, at #25 and #3, respectively!

Jericho Brown interviews Poetry Center Director Michael Dumanis for Best American Poetry blog

Two Cleveland State University Poetry Center authors yet again made SPD's Poetry Best-Sellers list, this time for November. Congratulations to Shane McCrae whose collection Mule is at #3 and to Emily Kendal Frey whose collection The Grief Performance is at #29!

Cleveland State University Poetry Center author Shane McCrae wins a 2011 Whiting Writers' Award for his collection Mule!

Two Cleveland State University Poetry Center authors made SPD's Poetry Best-Sellers list for September. Congratulations to Dora Malech whose collection Say So is at #11 and to Elyse Fenton whose collection Clamor is at #22!

From her amazing collection Rust or Go Missing, Lily Brown reads "Leaf at the End" for PBS Newshour.

Congratulations to Cleveland State University Poetry Center author Elyse Fenton, author of Clamor, for yet again breaking onto the SPD Bestseller List, this time for August, at #11.

Poetry Center author Dora Malech is featured on the Bookworm radio show with Michael Silverblatt. Thursday, July 21st 5:30 EST

"2011 First Book and Open Competition Results"

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Forthcoming Titles

Uncanny Valley
Jon Woodward

Mother Was a
Tragic Girl
Sandra Simonds

The Hartford Book
Samuel Amadon

I Live in a Hut
S.E.Smith

Recent Titles

The Grief Performance
by Emily Kendal Frey

The Firestorm
Zach Savich

Mule
Shane McCrae

Cleveland State University Poetry Center was originally established in 1962 at the former Fenn College of Engineering to promote poetry through readings and community outreach. In 1971, it expanded its mission to become a national non-profit independent poetry press under the auspices of the Cleveland State University Department of English, and has since published over one-hundred-fifty titles.

Click here to see information about the 2012 Poetry Center Contests.

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