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Ashland Poetry Press is a literary press associated with Ashland University. It was founded in 1969 by Ashland University professors Richard Snyder and Robert McGovern. Subsequent editors have included poets Steve Haven, Deborah Fleming, and current editor Chuck Carlise.
The press typically publishes three to five books per year and conducts the annual Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize contest and the Ashland Poetry Broadside Award. Other publication series have included the Robert McGovern Series, the McGovern New and Selected Series, and a translation series,[1] as well as occasional anthologies and essay collections.
Ashland Poetry Press titles have been named finalist for the National Book Award[2], and received citation for the Eric Hoffer “Da Vinci Eye” Award[3], the Independent Book Publisher Association Benjamin Franklin Award,[4] the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Book Award (Bilingual category)[5], the Florida Book Award[6], the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, and others.
Winners of The Richard Snyder Prize include Bruce Bond, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Vern Rutsala, Jason Schneiderman, Peter Grandbois, Margaret McKinnon, Laura Donnelly[7], J.David Cummings[8], Gabriel Spera[9], and Daneen Wardrop[10]. Recent Snyder Prize judges have included Mark Doty, Matthew Rohrer, and Maggie Smith.
The Robert McGovern Series – which ran from 2007 to 2014 – featured nominations from an advisory board including Philip Levine, Marilyn Chin, Ruth L. Schwartz, Alice Fulton, Andrew Hudgins, and Natasha Tretheway. The McGovern Series published books by A.V. Christie, Christine Gelineau, and Laura Van Prooyen[11]. The McGovern New and Selected Series has published titles by Mark Irwin, Arthur Vogelsang, Robert Philips, Richard Jackson,[12] and A.V. Christie.
Other notable poets with books or broadsides on Ashland Poetry Press or whose work was printed in APP anthologies, include Pattiann Rogers, Seaborn Jones, Nick Samaras[13], David Ray, Carolyn Wright, Wendy Battin, Nathalie Anderson, Julie Suk, Maria Terrone, David Mills[14], Miho Nonaka[15], Carlos Aguasaco[16], Dante Di Stefano, and Nancy Naomi Carlson[17].
The Ashland Poetry Press also publishes a literary journal, founded in 2019 by Ashland University MFA students, entitled Black Fork Review[18].
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- ^ "da Vinci Eye Winners". www.hofferaward.com. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ "Winners: Poetry 2020". IBPA Book Awards. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ York, The City College of New (20231107T143828Z). "Poesia". The City College of New York. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
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- ^ admin (2021-06-24). "[REVIEW] Midwest Gothic by Laura Donnelly". [PANK]. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ "Book Review: Tancho, J. David Cummings". The Digital Hyperlexic. 2014-12-04. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ "Review of The Rigid Body". www.forewordreviews.com. 2012-08-30. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
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- ^ "Laura Van Prooyen's OUR HOUSE WAS ON FIRE | The Iowa Review". iowareview.org. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ Smith, Marcus (2011). "Review of Resonance". Prairie Schooner. 85 (1): 177–180. ISSN 0032-6682.
- ^ "Quarterly West". Quarterly West. 2015-10-11. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ Scobie, Ilka (2022). "Boneyarn by David Mills (review)". American Book Review. 43 (4): 116–119. ISSN 2153-4578.
- ^ Chelsea, Wagenaar (2020-04-27). "Miho Nonaka's "The Museum of Small Bones" reviewed by Chelsea Wagenaar". Plume. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ "Latino Book Review Presents Carlos Aguasaco (Podcast)". LATINO BOOK REVIEW. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ "Review | Nettie Farris | North American Review". northamericanreview.org. Retrieved 2024-06-24.
- ^ "The Black Fork Review". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. Retrieved 2024-06-24.