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Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin on NPR's Fresh Air

NPR's Fresh Air interviewed W.S. Merwin, newly appointed United States Poet Laureate.  To listen to and read highlights from the interview, click here.

W.S. Merwin Appointed United States Poet Laureate

On July 1, 2010, the Library of Congress appointed W.S. Merwin Poet Laureate. The role of Poet Laureate is to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of poetry. Copper Canyon Press is honored to publish his poetry, prose, and translations, including his most recent volume of poems, The Shadow of Sirius, winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. For more information, click here.

Benjamin Alire Saenz featured on PBS NewsHour

Benjamin Alire Saenz, author of the recently published The Book Of What Remains, is featured tonight on PBS NewsHour at 6:00 PST. To see a preview video of Benjamin reading his poetry, click here. “I was born in the desert. / I want to die in the desert. / I want to die in the middle of the summer. At ten o'clock in the morning.”

Chase Twichell's Upcoming Feature Interview

Look for Albany Times Union's feature interview with Chase Twichell, "a writer with a connection to the region," on Friday, August 8th.

Matthew Zapruder featured in The Paris Review

Matthew Zapruder is featured in the latest edition of The Paris Review.  To read an excerpt of the poem "Come On All You Ghosts" (from Come On All You Ghosts, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, summer 2010) or to purchase an issue of the The Paris Review, click here.

David Budbill Interviewed on Vermont Public Radio

David Budbill recently talked on Vermont Public Radio about his new play, A Song For My Father, and read poems from Happy Life, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2011.  To listen to the full interview, click here.

Dennis O'Driscoll's Quote Poet Unquote featured on Poetry Daily

Dennis O'Driscoll's anthology of poetic quotes and quips, Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry, was featured in the new anthologies section of Poetry Daily. For more information or to purchase O'Driscoll book, click here.

Sarah Lindsay and Arthur Sze have both been nominated for the 2010 PEN/Voelcker Prize for Poetry

The PEN/Voelcker Award, established by a bequest from Hunce Voelcker, will be presented for the eighth time in 2008 to an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature. The poet honored by the award is one for whom the exceptional promise seen in earlier work has been fulfilled, and who continues to mature with each successive volume of poetry. The award is given in even-numbered years and carries a stipend of $5,000.
 

Chase Twichell Awarded Degree from St. Lawrence

Chase Twichell will receive an honorary degree from St. Lawrence University, alongside Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Reverend Peter J. Gomes, at Commencement on May 16. Twichell will offer remarks at the ceremony. For more information, click here.

Ben Lerner's Mean Free Path Reviewed on The Constant Critic

Another great review of Ben Lerner's newest book, Mean Free Path, is available on The Constant Critic's website.

Seido Ray Ronci wins PEN Center USA Award for Poetry for 2009

Copper Canyon Press poet Saeido Ray Ronci has been awarded the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry for 2009 for his book The Skeleton of the Crow.  For more information and a list of the other 2009 award winners, click here.

 

Ben Lerner's Mean Free Path Reviewed on Fanzine

A great review of Ben Lerner's newest book Mean Free Path is available on Fanzine Press' website

Matthew Dickman, All-American Poem and Michael Dickman, The End of the West profiled in the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

Read Article here: Portland twins Matthew and Michael Dickman are making their mark ...
Feb 2, 2009 ... Matthew and Michael Dickman -- 33-year-old identical twins from Portland -- are rising national stars in the poetry world.

 

Heather McHugh awarded MacArthur, Sept. 22, 2009

The Superwoman of poetry, Heather McHugh, is a recipient of this year’s John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation $500,000 “genius awards”. Copper Canyon Press is publishing McHugh’s thirteenth book, Upgraded to Serious, to be in stores November 2009.

CCP supports The Tree House Gallery in London

The TreeHouse Gallery
website: www.thetreehousegallery.org
A Spherical Reading Gallery :
It shall be a spherical space, hanging very high in a London Plane tree next to the boating lake. The room will be entirely shelved with books. All the spines of the books will be bark-bound, so that when slotted back into the shelf they become part of the inverted trunk. The room will hold about 7 people at any one time, and shall be reached by a beautiful spiral staircase, through a circular trapdoor. Specially curated for The TreeHouse Gallery, the books will reference the exploration & perception of alternate worlds, ways of living, the imagination, innovations in design, philosophies, poetry,  mythology.
Please contribute to the Spherical Reading Gallery!!

CCP supports Port Townsend Mystery for Olycap DEC 5 in Fort Commons

Beam me, up, Scottie!

See ptmystery.com for details. Copper Canyon's I.T. man, Ramon Daily, is the Creative Genius behind this fundraiser for Olycap, who provides food, health services & so much more to the Olympic Peninsula.

 

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Ruth Stone awarded 2009 Paterson for Sustained Literary Achievement

Copper Canyon Press is pleased to share the news that Ruth Stone's book What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems has been selected for the 2009 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement open to previous winners of the Paterson Poetry Prize.

Copper Canyon in the New Yorker

Read article here: Copper Canyon's Big Time: If there is a defining moment of dissent in the history of poetry publishing, it could very well be when W. S. Merwin, who was long published by Knopf, gave his new manuscript to the much smaller, nonprofit Copper Canyon Press.

Read abstract here: Copper Canyon poets Matthew and Michael Dickman were profiled by Rebecca Mead in the April 6, 2009 New Yorker (Couplet)

 

W.S. Merwin Wins 2009 Pulitzer Prize

The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin has been awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. 

 

Matthew Dickman wins 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award

We are proud to announce that Matthew Dickman is the winner of the 2009 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for his first book All-American Poem, which also won the APR/Honikman First Book Prize, and the inaugural awarding of the May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Established in 1993, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award is presented annually for a first book by a poet of genuine promise.

Peter Pereira Featured on NPR in Seattle

The poem "October Journal" from What's Written on the Body can be heard at KUOW’s web site.

Poet Hayden Carruth Dies

We mourn the loss of poet Hayden Carruth, who died at his home in Munnsville, New York, on September 29, 2008. He was eighty-seven. Over a fifty-year writing career he published two dozen books and received many honors, including the National Book Award for Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Collected Shorter Poems. In his memoir, Reluctantly, he wrote, “Certainly I have never been a part of any literary group. The possibility of being where I am—wherever, however, whenever—a single eye, an autochthonous imagination, full of sympathy but apart, apart from even myself—is what I always wanted to demonstrate to myself. Where I am is the cosmic eye. Nothing grand, nothing romantic. A duck blown out to sea and still squawking.”

W. S. Merwin Wins Bobbitt Poetry Prize for Present Company

W. S. Merwin has been awarded the Bobbitt Poetry Prize from the Library of Congress. The prize, awarded biannually, honors the best book of poetry published by an American poet during the previous two years. 

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