Colosseum Books is an regular series of volumes of new poetry and poetry criticism that exhibit spiritual and intellectual depth and an understanding of verse as a craft guided by enduring tradition, metrical rigor, and a commitment to the well-made thing. Each Colosseum book will be published by the Franciscan University of Steubenville Press.

Our Catalog
Please visit the Franciscan University Press website to view the full catalog of Colosseum Books.  Click here.

Submissions
Manuscripts should include a title page with author contact information, table of contents, and poems following, with each new poem starting a new page.  A page of acknowledgments and author biography should be included at the end, as appropriate.  Manuscripts normally may run from 50 to 100 pages.  Manuscripts should be formatted in keeping with good grammar and prosody conventions.

Our annual reading period runs from June-August; manuscripts submitted outside that time frame will not be acknowledged.
 
Authors are invited to send manuscripts via email, with Colosseum Books Submission in the subject heading, to:

fup[at]franciscan.edu
 
 
Colosseum Books expects to publish roughly three volumes of poetry and criticism each year and to build a list that responds to the challenges of the hour and which reflects the beauty of the eternal.