Discuss “Inside the Carnegie Mellon University Press”

Many people have heard of the Yale and Harvard university presses, but few are aware that Carnegie Mellon has a press of its own. Despite the lack of visibility and publicity, Carnegie Mellon does have its own press, which is responsible (and renowned) for publishing books on nonfiction, fiction, and, most prominently, poetry.

Carnegie Mellon English professor Gerry Costanzo founded the press in 1975, and it has since become an important publishing icon in the world of university press publications. Rubén Quintero, a senior in ECE and creative writing, said, “It’s a great publication and has a fabulous poetry series.” Quintero has been a member of the University Press for two years, after enrolling in the English department’s Editing...