COPPER CANYON PRESS

'Copper Canyon Press' is a tiny non-profit press specializing in the publication of poetry and located in the picturesque town of Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press, founded in 1972, has been called the best publisher of poetry in America by Jim Harrison, the noted Michigan writer. It achieved national stature when it attracted the foremost American poet W.S. Merwin away from his New York publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. Merwin won the 2005 National Book Award in poetry in the same year another Copper Canyon Press author, Ted Kooser, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.^[1]
Since its founding in 1972, Copper Canyon press has published over 300 titles. These include works by Nobel Prize Laurates Pablo Neruda, Odysseas Elytis, Octavio Paz, and Rabindranath Tagore as well as Pulitzer Prize-winners Ted Kooser, Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, and Theodore Roethke. Other authors published by this small prestigious press include National Book Award winner Lucille Clifton and unorthodox contemporary poets such as Jim Harrison, C. D. Wright, Norman Dubie, and Olga Broumas.^[2]
Copper Canyon Press found permanent quarters at Fort Worden State Park in 1974.^[3]

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Noted publications

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Noted publications

★ Ted Kooser - 2005 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for ''Delights & Shadows''

★ W.S. Merwin - 2005 National Book Award in poetry for ''Migration: New & Selected Poems''

★ Ruth Stone - 2002 National Book Award in poetry for ''In the Next Galaxy''

★ Hayden Carruth - 1996 National Book Award in poetry for ''Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey''

★ John Balaban - 2000 ''Ho Xuan Huong's Spring Essence''^[4]

Notes

1. Copper Canyon basks in the glow of huge prizes and illustrious writers
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4. Copper Canyon Press Ho Xuan Huong's Spring Essence

External links

★ Copper Canyon Press Website

★ NBA Winner Boosts Copper Canyon Press