News Shorts
Copper Canyon in the News
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, 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
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.
- Upcoming Events
Calendar of author readings, book group and fundraising events. - Keep in Touch
Join our mailing list for print catalogs and news of upcoming events and opportunities.