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ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúTV Press is dedicated to advancing ideas, creativity, and scholarship through bold, thoughtful publishing.

As a nonprofit, mission-driven press, it provides a vital platform for innovative voices in poetry, fiction, and scholarly work — especially projects that challenge conventions or explore new intellectual ground.

Sustain Our Legacy

Support Independent Publishing

We need your support to continue the initiatives we started over 50 years ago, pushing the boundaries of literary and academic publishing. By supporting us, you ensure that we can continue to foster emerging talent and take risks on experiments in literature and scholarship alike.

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Elevating Original Voices

We publish a dozen books a year, including literary titles, educational resources, and academic research.Ìý

Building Our Future

Fund Bold New Initiatives

Your contributions provide support beyond strengthening our ability to discover new authors, produce high-quality books, and maintain our role as a home for rigorous, imaginative publishing. It allows us to foster emerging talent and take risks for literature and scholarship alike.

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Celebrating Emerging Poets

CMU Press launched the Tayur Endowed Poetry Fund in 2025, providing critical support for debut authors.

Our Press, Their Classroom

Shaping What's Next

From the very beginning, CMU students have been part of the Press’s work. Our student interns find and advocate for the manuscripts they love, pitch books to our editorial board, design books and develop marketing and publicity materials for new releases, giving them an agency interns rarely have in a Press’s editorial process.

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Cultivating Publishing Careers

Many of our student interns go on to work in publishing as designers, editors, and even heading up imprints at Big 5 publishers.

We can't do it without you.

By supporting CMU Press, you’re championing independent publishing that values originality and depth above all else. You're allowing us to continue fifty years of publishing award-winning literary work while breaking new ground in other areas. You're making it possible for us to create a university press for the future.

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