Copper Canyon Press

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Copper Canyon Press is a American non-profit press specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press, founded in 1972, has been called the best publisher of poetry in America by Jim Harrison, the noted Michigan writer. It achieved national stature when it attracted the foremost American poet W.S. Merwin away from his New York publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. Merwin won the 2005 National Book Award in poetry in the same year another Copper Canyon Press author, Ted Kooser, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.[1]

Since its founding in 1972, Copper Canyon press has published over 300 titles. These include works by Nobel Prize Laurates Pablo Neruda, Odysseas Elytis, Octavio Paz, and Rabindranath Tagore as well as Pulitzer Prize-winners Ted Kooser, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, and Theodore Roethke. Other authors published by this small prestigious press include National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton and unorthodox contemporary poets such as Jim Harrison, C. D. Wright, Norman Dubie, Olga Broumas, and Ben Lerner.[2]

Copper Canyon Press found permanent quarters at Fort Worden State Park in 1974.[3]

[edit] Noted publications

Fort Worden, location of Copper Canyon Press
Fort Worden, location of Copper Canyon Press

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Marshall, John (March 30, 2006). Copper Canyon basks in the glow of huge prizes and illustrious writers. Seattlepi.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
  2. ^ Copper Canyon Press. Academy of American Poets. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
  3. ^ Copper Canyon Press. Fort Worden State Park. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
  4. ^ Copper Canyon Press Ho Xuan Huong's Spring Essence. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.

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