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A nonprofit, independent publisher of poetry. We believe poetry is vital to language and living.

08/07/2026

"Tell me how the next life will be filled / with jars of barley. I can lay down my scythe / to calm the storms, but the storms have their own / homelands to get to."

TISHANI DOSHI’s lush new collection, EGRETS, WHILE WAR, laments the loss of humanity while relishing the beauty, strength, and persistence of the natural world. These poems fortify us, positing hope and the earth as answers to our spiritual and physical survival.

Enjoy this reading of “I Am the Last Poet of the Village” and preorder your copy today at https://buff.ly/0aB0fdN

08/06/2026

Save the date! On August 22, join U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE and translator Emily Wilson at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C.

Moderated by NPR’s Andrew Limbong, "Into Other Worlds" brings the first U.S. Poet Laureate to focus on translation into conversation with the first woman to publish a translation of The Odyssey. Together, SZE and Wilson will explore the joys and challenges of translating literature from one language or time into another.

Get your free ticket and learn more at https://buff.ly/hQJz34a

P.S. Can't attend the National Book Festival in-person? Stay tuned here for a recording of this event!

08/05/2026

Forthcoming this September! REVELATOR by ELLIE BLACK, winner of the 2026 APR/Honickman Prize, transforms shards of language, pop culture, and literature into poems of excess and incantation.

Today, Ellie tells us about the lucky discovery of her striking cover art:

“I found this incredible painting by Fiona Finnegan on Tumblr last summer. I thought it might make a good book cover someday; little did I know that in only a few months, it would come in handy! I just think it’s a perfect companion for REVELATOR—it ties together several of the book’s threads regarding electricity, technology, power, the divine, etc. I can physically hear the lightning cracking every time I look at it. Plus the hand looks a little like my hand, which I think is fun. (Also, the blue/pink text combo is a bit of a shoutout to The Bell Jar.)”

Preorder REVELATOR now at https://buff.ly/ITEbWDM
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08/03/2026

This Monday, it's our pleasure to introduce you to our fantastic production intern—Alo!

CCP: What’s your favorite aspect of the intern experience at Copper Canyon Press so far?

A: I love learning all of the tiny details that take a manuscript from its first file version to the book that readers carry into their homes. Everyone at the Press cares so deeply about preserving the creative vision and intention of authors, and that advocacy appears in every small decision, from trim size and cover design, to copy on upcoming releases and the colors that appear in our promotional materials. Each new or unfamiliar aspect of book production that I encounter helps me further appreciate all of the delicate craftsmanship and decision making which have allowed me to read and love poetry collections for so much of my life.

CCP: Please tell us about a forthcoming Copper Canyon Press title you’re excited about, and why.

A: I am excitedly awaiting the release of TISHANI DOSHI’s EGRETS, WHILE WAR this September. Among my friends, it is no secret that I am hopelessly fond of bird motifs in writing, especially when the striking and concrete forms of birds are juxtaposed against the abstract concepts of grief, identity, and hope. I can’t wait to dive into DOSHI’s poems and enjoy her incredible use of sound and emotional proximity alongside the bird imagery that I so enjoy.

CCP: Please give us a line from a poem that you can’t get out of your head.

A: In the past few years since her passing, I have often revisited the poems of Louise Glück. Most recently, I reread her astounding collection, The Wild Iris, which opens, in its titular poem: “At the end of my suffering / there was a door.”

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Stay tuned here to meet another brilliant member of our Fall 2026 intern cohort next week! And don't forget: Applications for Copper Canyon Press's Spring 2027 internship program open on September 15. Learn how to apply at: https://buff.ly/mUVQZAZ

08/02/2026

Forthcoming August 25! KAZIM ALI's breathtaking new collection, THE MAN IN 119, explores loss and absence alongside the human body and the natural world.

Enjoy this reading of "From ice and time I grew but why" and preorder your copy today at https://buff.ly/VzpXybU

07/31/2026

Forthcoming September 22! Lammy Award finalist PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA's next collection, LOVE BETWEEN MEN, celebrates and challenges love: of history, poetry, language—and, ultimately, of change.

Enjoy this reading of "The Lifeline" and preorder your copy today at https://buff.ly/LbULm0B

07/29/2026

“I am helping to make the entire world into a desert. / I live in the desert. I want everyone else to live in one, too.”—BENJAMIN ALIRE SAÉNZ, from “Meditation on Living in the Desert (No. 2)”

We are deeply saddened by the loss of our dear friend and poet, BENJAMIN ALIRE SAÉNZ. A poet, novelist, and children’s book author, Benjamin served as a priest in the Catholic Diocese of El Paso from 1981–1984 before pursuing his literary career in earnest. His debut poetry collection, CALENDAR OF DUST, won an American Book Award. In 2013, he became the first Latino recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction. His writing also garnered a Stegner Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Stonewall Book Award throughout his lifetime. In 2022, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters's Award of Merit for his five poetry collections, among them THE BOOK OF WHAT REMAINS and DREAMING THE END OF THE WAR.

At Copper Canyon Press, we’ll remember Benjamin not only for his remarkable poetry, but for his humor, vivacious spirit, and big heart. We’re grateful to have known him and shared his work with you.

07/27/2026

Four incredible new interns have joined the Copper Canyon Press team! This Monday, it’s our pleasure to introduce you to the first talented member of our Fall 2026 cohort—Olivia!

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CCP: What’s your favorite aspect of the intern experience at Copper Canyon Press so far?

O: My favorite part of the internship experience thus far has been getting to know the wonderful team at the Press. Everyone has been so encouraging, open, and enthusiastic to teach us more about their work! I have loved learning about the entire process of creating a Copper Canyon Press book, and I look forward to seeing the process playout firsthand! I cannot wait to get to know everyone better and contribute more meaningfully to the Press.

CCP: Please tell us about a forthcoming Copper Canyon Press title you’re excited about.

O: I am especially excited for KAZIM ALI's () THE MAN IN 119, coming out this August. ALI’s writing has a unique musical nature, and I’m particularly eager to see how this style intersects with the book’s exploration of memory, spirituality and geography.

CCP: Please give us a line from a poem that you can’t get out of your head.

O: I have recently been ruminating on a poem by David Wilson called “Crampons.” The poem tells the story of a climber rediscovering a pair of mountaineering crampons in an attic, emblematic of the person the narrator once was. The discovery rekindles a sharp memory of the ice and Alps, which to me, captures the quiet peace and nostalgia in reconciling the past and present self: “Tell me again about being single-minded, // about couloirs bulging with fat blue ice / and dawn arriving high in the Alps; / how a slope exists at a perfect angle / where it all might kick in again.”

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Stay tuned here to meet each of the spectacular Fall 2026 interns, and learn how you can join the Spring 2027 cohort at https://buff.ly/szbMsAu

07/23/2026

ERIN BELIEU's stunning new and selected COCKLEBUR arrives this October! Today, Erin describes the meaning behind her book's cover and the odyssey it evokes:

"The cover Gopa and I came up with for COCKLEBUR feels like the most beautiful expression of what poetry fundamentally is to me: an exploration of the psychic interior made exterior through metaphor and music. I imagine my reader walking through the bluing deeps of a forest at twilight, a little fading light still visible at the treetops; the branches partially obscuring what waits to reveal itself. An invitation to go all the way in to see what sits at the heart of the woods. It calls to my mind the journeys of Orpheus and Odysseus, Hel, Psyche, and Izanami, those mythic characters that have made their way to the underworld. I think D.H. Lawrence is also haunting COCKLEBUR's cover as well, given that I carry the torch-lit incantation of his poem 'Bavarian Gentians' with me always. COCKLEBUR's cover feels like the entry point for where the adventure often begins."

Venture into these brilliant poems and preorder your copy today at https://buff.ly/Ch7AQr7

Cover Design: Gopa and Ted2, Inc.

07/20/2026

LAURA KASISCHKE's newest collection I WAS BONNIE & CLYDE channels the legendary couple in poems that challenge "the fiction that one can outrun gender and class categories on the open road."

Read the rest of this remarkable review by Sandra Simonds for The Poetry Foundation at https://buff.ly/twVapU7 and get your copy of I WAS BONNIE & CLYDE at https://buff.ly/Ydqr70r!
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