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Traci Brimhall
Known for her frequent marriage of the ordinary with the surreal, Traci Brimhall has authored two previous collections of poetry: Our Lady of the Ruins , selected by Carolyn...

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Solar Perplexus
In Solar Perplexus , Dean Young uses the surreal as the thread which weaves in and out of complications of existence. The result is a textured, honest work that grapples with what it means...

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Nightingale
Nightingale is a book about change. This collection radically rewrites and contemporizes many of the myths central to Ovid’s epic, The Metamorphoses, Rekdal’s characters changed not...

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13th Balloon
Forthcoming February 2020 In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon , Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins...

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Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems
Jim Harrison: The Essential Poems is distilled from nearly 1,000 poems that appeared in fourteen volumes--from visionary lyrics and meditative suites to shape-shifting...

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When My Brother Was an Aztec
In When My Brother Was An Aztec , Natalie Diaz examines memory’s role in human identity. Each section filters memory through specific individuals and settings. The first...

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A Nail the Evening Hangs On
Forthcoming February 2020 In her debut collection, Monica Sok uses poetry to reshape a family’s memory about the Khmer Rouge regime―memory that is both...

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Ocean Vuong
Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds ( Copper Canyon Press, 2016). His poems appear in Kenyon Review, The Nation, New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Poetry,...

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Fall/Winter 2019-20

Father's Day, Matthew Zapruder

Incarnate: The Collected Dead Man Poems, Marvin Bell

The Hardy Tree, Linda Bierds

13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins

The Anti-Grief, Marianne Boruch

A Nail the Evening Hangs On, Monica Sok

Railsplitter, Maurice Manning

Solar Perplexus, Dean Young

Everything That Rises, Joseph Stroud

Written In Exile: The Poems of Liu Tsung-yuan, Liu Tsung-yuan, trans. Bill Porter (Red Pine)

Empires, John Balaban

44 Poems for You, Sarah Ruhl

Vantage (APR/Honickman First Book Prize), Taneum Bambrick

Spring/Summer 2020

Obit, Victoria Chang

Indigo, Ellen Bass

Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Traci Brimhall

The Park, John Freeman

Deluge, Leila Chatti

Shrapnel Maps, Philip Metres

Muddy Matterhorn, Heather McHugh

Not Go Away Is My Name, Alberto Ríos

Travelers Leaving for the City, Ed Skoog

For Now, James Richardson

Help publish Indigo by Ellen Bass and Boost Our Spring Poetry Season

“You may have to break/ your heart, but it isn't nothing/ to know even one moment alive,” writes Ellen Bass in Indigo.

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Brown and Sze Named National Book Award Finalists

Congratulations to Jericho Brown (The Tradition) and Arthur Sze (Sight Lines), finalists for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry! The National Book Awards, given annually by the National Book Foundation, were established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in America. Winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on November 20, 2019. Past Copper Canyon Press National Book Award winners include C.D. Wright, Hayden Carruth, W.S. Merwin, and Ruth Stone.

View the complete list of this year's finalists here.

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Taos Poetry Workshop with Ellen Bass and Jericho Brown

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Michael Moore reviews
Primer on Parallel Lives, A
by Dan Gerber

I have walked those hills, sat in the shade of the same oaks, and have been that kid. But Dan Gerber put it to paper as I never could. I loved the images he created.