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Run The Red Lights
Run the Red Lights is the third collection from poet and teacher Ed Skoog , whose lyrics are especially transcendent in this book, which marks his first years as a parent. Skoog's...

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Natalie Diaz
Natalie Diaz, a member of the Mojave and Pima Indian tribes, attended Old Dominion University on a full athletic scholarship. After playing professional basketball in Austria, Portugal, Spain,...

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Unaccompanied
Javier Zamora’s debut assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level, and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth-country that’s been left...

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Patient Zero
Tomás Q. Morín's Patient Zero is full of life and its undeniable hungers. Claws, fins, mouths, and feathers populate a fanciful world: a man in a crowded market becomes a...

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Rachel McKibbens
Born in Anaheim, CA and currently residing in upstate New York with her family, Rachel McKibbens is a Chicana poet, activist, playwright, essayist, and two-time New York Foundation for the...

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Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American poet, translator, and physician of internal medicine. He received his medical training from the Medical College of Georgia and University of Texas, and...

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Tumbling toward the End
David Budbill died in September 2016, before the publication of his eighth book of poetry. Tumbling toward the End is a candid assessment of imminent mortality haunted by the timbre of...

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The Silence That Remains
As a child, Ghassan Zaqtan lived in a refugee camp near the River Jordan. While that painful experience deeply influenced his poetry, when Zaqtan was awarded the prestigious Griffin...

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Ocean Vuong's Debut Honored with Multiple "Best of Year" Listings

Ocean Vuong's debut volume, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, has received numerous citations on "Best Books of the Year" listings, including:

The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016

New York Times, Critics Pick

Boston Globe, Best Books listing

NPR, Best Books listing

Miami Herald, Best LGBTQ Books

San Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the Year

Library Journal, Best Books of 2016

Affirm the Power of Poetry Today!

At Copper Canyon Press, we believe that poetry is vital to language and living. Contributions to the Press enable us to publish extraordinary works of poetry, discover new voices, and engage the imaginations and intellects of readers around the world. Your gift today will help us publish The Essential W.S. Merwin, a collection of the very best poems by one of our most beloved poets. The Essential W.S. Merwin will distill the poet’s lifework down to a single, approachable paperback volume to be enjoyed by dedicated fans and new readers for generations to come. In addition, your contribution supports many other established and emerging poets whose voices are needed in the world today.

For more information on making a contribution, contact George Knotek, Co-Publisher, at george@coppercanyonpress.org.

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Kevin Krause reviews

His work, especially "Braided Creek" always made me wish I was a poet......