Recent news featuring Copper Canyon Press poets.
“Poetry as a Cistern for Love and Loss”: Gabrielle Calvocoressi on The New Yorker Radio Hour
“You can hear in [Calvocoressi’s] poetry this kind of sense of both community and individuality, this sorrow and this joy, this idea of ecstasy and expectation, but it’s flecked with real human trial and tribulation, with everyday pain, but also . . . extraordinary moments.”—David Remnick, The New Yorker
Listen to the interview (or access a transcript) here.
Distinguished Office of Echoes reviewed by North of Oxford
“Distinguished Office of Echoes is a book that really must be seen to be appreciated, not ‘explained’ or ‘described.’ But take it from this reviewer, it’s a wondrous book.”—Charles Rammelkamp, North of Oxford
The New Economy reviewed by the Adroit Journal
“A portal of hauntings and extraordinary song, summoning readers to have courage amidst their own sorrows. Calvocoressi honors the magic and sacredness of an ungendered body, sustaining a devotional poetic voice throughout these investigative, unafraid, and sincere poems. They masterfully make space for both longing and self-acceptance, the fear and the light within us all, conjuring a deeply personal collection that is timelessly urgent.”—Livia Meneghin, Adroit Journal
Of the ten poetry collections longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle 2025 book award, three are by Copper Canyon Press poets: Natalie Shapero’s Stay Dead; U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze’s Into the Hush; and Yuki Tanaka’s debut collection, Chronicle of Drifting. Congratulations to all poets and finalists!
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze’s most recent collection, Into the Hush, is longlisted for the 2026 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award! This prestigious award honors groundbreaking work of any genre for its originality, merit, and impact, which “[reshapes] the boundaries of its form and [signals] strong potential for lasting influence.” The winner will be announced in March at the PEN Literary Awards ceremony. Congratulations to Arthur Sze on this latest achievement!
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The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
My Perfect Cognate by Natalie Scenters-Zapico
Into the Hush by U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze
Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama
Wildness Before Something Sublime by Leila Chatti
New poetry from U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze: “Pitch Green,” featured in POETRY Magazine
“Kayaking along shore with a glacier across the bay— / a moose calf and her mother browse among birches near a cabin— /crackle of twigs underfoot—”—Arthur Sze
Read or listen to the poem here.
“When we travel between two or more languages, each language drifts into the orbits of the others, producing a new language that feels fresh and full of possibility. I see the gap between languages not as a translator’s nightmare but as a field of creative agency.” —Yuki Tanaka