2023

Changes pressmark

2022

Arthur Sze wins the Ruth Lilly Award

2022

Copper Canyon Press Publishing Fellowship begins

2020s

Publishes seventy books between 2020 and 2023

2019

Arthur Sze wins the National Book Award for Sight Lines; Jericho Brown’s The Tradition is a finalist for the National Book Award

2016

Publishes Ocean Vuong’s first book, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, which wins T.S. Eliot Prize

2015

Ben Lerner receives a MacArthur Award for Poetry

2014

Publishes Jericho Brown’s The New Testament

2012

Publishes When My Brother Was an Aztec, the first book by eventual Pulitzer Prize winner Natalie Diaz

2011

Laura Kasischke wins National Book Critics Circle Award for Space, in Chains

2011

Through a grant from the Paul Allen Foundation, develops industry-standard open-source coding protocol to create bespoke poetry e-books

2010

C.D. Wright and James Richardson are both finalists for the National Book Award

2010

C.D. Wright wins National Book Critics Circle Award and Lenore Marshall Award for One With Others

2010

Acquires the backlist of Ausable Press (forty-nine poetry titles including work by Laura Kasischke, James Richardson, Eric Pankey, and Linton Kwesi Johnson)

2010

W.S. Merwin named US Poet Laureate

2010s

Publishes 180 books

2009

C.D. Wright wins 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize

2009

Heather McHugh receives MacArthur Award for Poetry

2006

After several transitions in the Press’s leadership, a management team is formed to direct the Press

2005

W.S. Merwin wins the National Book Award for Migration