An anthology commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the "Pitt Poetry Series" contains works by Kathleen Pierce, Paul Zimmer, Maggie Anderson, Julia Kasdorf, Leslie Ullman, and others.

The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Pitt Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Ochester, Ed

Poetry

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Changing the Name to Ochester

Carnegie-Mellon University

Allegheny

Adastra Pr

The dozen poems in this chapbook range from childhood  memories of neighbors, family and reading Joyce at age 12 to  satirizing political correctness to paying homage to deceased poet,  William Stafford. Ochester’s style is free and easy like good  conversation. He is a story teller, a creator of believable characters  like “Norman Silvertsen, Sr.,” a childhood neighbor, who calls  eight-year-old Ochester a “stuck-up little snot,” or Aunt  Barbara and her best friend, Minnie, who found out the amazing truth  about seventy-year-old Barb that became part of the family narrative.

Cooking in Key West

Adastra Press

A generous selection of poems from Ed Ochester's first three books. From the surrealistic satire of Dancing On the Edges of Knives to the emphatic evocative voice of Miracle Mile to his mature flowering in Changing the Name to Ochester, we see the evolution of this important poet.

Snow White Horses : Selected Poems 1973-1988

Autumn House Press

Poetry. In THE REPUBLIC OF LIES, Ochester utilizes a straightforward - and often humorous - tone to comment on American culture in the twenty-first century. Replete with references to pop culture and literary icons alike, Ochester's latest book is enjoyable all the way through. Poems from THE REPUBLIC OF LIES have appeared in numerous journals including AGNI, American Poetry Review, and Prairie Schooner. Ochester has published twelve books of poetry, is editor of the Pitt Poetry Series, and co-edits the magazine 5 AM. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

The Republic of Lies

Ed Ochester's poems have a colloquial immediacy and sparking wit that appeal to a wider readership than most mainstream verse.
Say Hello to the Ocean for Me
Tell her I remember her true name: Thalassa. Tell her how dessicated I am. Tell her I'm dreaming of squid and the rich bed of the pearly oyster. Tell her I'm goofy for her as I always have been, tell her again how much I love to float with a giant cigar smoking like a tiny Titanic. Tell her I remember the green abd blue silks of the Gulf Stream, and the iron waves off Rockaway where I was born, where even now the aged and the infirm, Thalassa, walk through the whispering fans of foam to watch a freighter sail off the horizon and, Thalassa, they wade in deeper on their stilt legs, peer at the cumuli forming-- to them it's just clouds-- and the weightless gulls and wonderful their bodies lighter and lighter 
Ed Ochester, author of eleven books of poetry, has edited The Living Poem: American Poetry Now and The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry. Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Core Faculty of the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars, and past-president of Associated Writing Programs, Ochester is also the editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press Poetry Series.

Land of Cockaigne

Story Line Press

In his eigth full-length collection of poetry, Ochester is at his best: straight-forward and tender, he views the world with no illusions and a great deal of compassion.

Sugar Run Road (The Autumn House Poetry Series)

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