2005

Begins publishing original work by W.S. Merwin, starting with Migration: New & Selected Poems, after reissuing several of his early books that were out of print

2005

Ted Kooser wins the Pulitzer Prize for Delights & Shadows

2004

C.D. Wright wins a MacArthur Award for Poetry

2004

Sam Hamill leaves Copper Canyon Press

2004

Ted Kooser named US Poet Laureate; Delights & Shadows becomes first Copper Canyon book to sell more than 100,000 copies

2004

Publishes Ben Lerner’s debut collection, The Lichtenberg Figures

2002

Ruth Stone wins National Book Award for In the Next Galaxy; Alberto Ríos is nominated the same year for The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body

2002

Madeline DeFrees wins the Lenore Marshall Award for Blue Dusk

2000

In a speech during the first postwar presidential visit to Vietnam, Bill Clinton cites Spring Essence, a translation by John Balaban, as an example of American cultural diplomacy, giving copies […]

2000s

Publishes 192 books

1998

Begins copublishing relationship with The American Poetry Review and the Honickman First Book Award, with Joshua Beckman’s Things Are Happening

1998

W.S. Merwin wins the Ruth Lilly Award

1998

Publishes Jim Harrison’s The Shape of the Journey, starting a long relationship with the novelist and poet

1997

John Balaban nominated for National Book Award for Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems

1996

Hayden Carruth wins National Book Award for Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey

1995

Hayden Carruth First Book Award series launches, with Erin Belieu’s Infanta named the winner

1995

Publishes Archipelago by Arthur Sze

1993

Establishes iconic shih as pressmark/logo

1993

Publishes Lucille Clifton’s Book of Light

1993

Publishes W.S. Merwin’s The Second Four Books of Poems, the first of many collections by Merwin