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Thank you to the National Book Foundation and our Press community for an unforgettable night of literary community at the 76th National Book Awards!

Congrats to ROBIN MYERS, winner of the NBA for Translated Literature, and Patricia Smith, winner of the NBA in Poetry!
Text reads "Copper Canyon Press at the 76th National Book Awards!" Below, a photo of Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY in the event space. Pictures of Copper Canyon Press poets Kelli Russel Agodon and Shangyang Fang in the event space, and Claretta Holsey, Managing Editor. A collage of photos, including pictures of Richard Siken, I DO KNOW SOME THINGS, Gabrielle Calvocoresi, Kelli Russel Agodon, and Robin Myers The photos come to an end, with images of Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Shangyang Fang, Robin Myers, Michael Wiegers, and others. Text reads "Thank you to the National Book Foundation, our poets, and our Press community for an unforgettable evening!"
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Electric Lit named three Copper Canyon Press collections Best Poetry in 2025: WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME by LEILA CHATTI, THE NEW ECONOMY by GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI, and I DO KNOW SOME THINGS by RICHARD SIKEN.

Check out the full list from Electric Lit at https://bit.ly/3XDVgUd.
Text reads: "Electric Lit's Best Poetry Collections of 2025." Three books below: WILDNESS BEFORE SOMETHING SUBLIME by LEILA CHATTI, THE NEW ECONOMY by GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI, and I DO KNOW SOME THINGS by RICHARD SIKEN.
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Out now from NPR! We love this book review of by Craig Morgan Teicher on the surprising sources of refuge in GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI's National Book Award finalist THE NEW ECONOMY.

You won't want to skip this article! Read the full piece at https://n.pr/4ptQ3tS
A photo of the front cover of The New Economy. A header reads "The New Economy as reviewed by NPR" A quote below the header reads: "Hopelessness is a beloved enemy in these poems, a necessary muse. . . . Calvocoressi is at home in the dark, they live there, even if light is their element. They're wise because they're wary." —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR A screenshot of the article posted on NPR's website; it reads "New poetry stresses that our stories are more precious and urgent than ever" by Craig Morgan Teicher
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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We are honored to have received a grant from the Poetry Foundation! These vital funds will sustain Press operations and validate the power of poetry to do good—to strengthen our connections to each other and our world.

Thank you to the Foundation for stewarding poetry and nonprofit publishing!
Graphic reads: "Poetry Foundation awards $20,000 to Copper Canyon Press and $1.3 million to support poetry-based literary nonprofits." The top of the graphic is white and includes the Poetry Foundation's logo—a pegasus in flight—against a white background. The bottom half of the graphic is a pink-tinged shelf of books.
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Congrats to ALISON C. ROLLINS, winner of the Maya Angelou Book Award for BLACK BELL!

BLACK BELL navigates what it means to be both invisible and spectacle Integrating metalwork, sonics, and more, this book is a meditation on freedom seeking.

Purchase your copy at https://bit.ly/4o3lFFt
A photo of Alison Rollins and her book, Black Bell, against a yellow and green background. Text reads "Black Bell by Alison C. Rollins wins Maya Angelous Book Award" Text reads: from "Black Bell" Sound can give things a color, the way eyes can smile. To give yourself back to yourself, you must increasingly fold inward at the etched creases of your palms. To turn black is to join the fold. To turn back is to face the music of the shotgun’s open mouth. We watch to see how black bell’s holding up. By a thread? A string? A hook? A rope? She sleeps a sleep of the sleepless— a bell’s body is never at rest.
November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Thank you to the National Book Foundation and our Press community for an unforgettable night of literary community at the 76th National Book Awards!

Congrats to ROBIN MYERS, winner of the NBA for Translated Literature, and Patricia Smith, winner of the NBA in Poetry!
Text reads "Copper Canyon Press at the 76th National Book Awards!" Below, a photo of Gabrielle Calvocoressi's THE NEW ECONOMY in the event space. Pictures of Copper Canyon Press poets Kelli Russel Agodon and Shangyang Fang in the event space, and Claretta Holsey, Managing Editor. A collage of photos, including pictures of Richard Siken, I DO KNOW SOME THINGS, Gabrielle Calvocoresi, Kelli Russel Agodon, and Robin Myers The photos come to an end, with images of Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Shangyang Fang, Robin Myers, Michael Wiegers, and others. Text reads "Thank you to the National Book Foundation, our poets, and our Press community for an unforgettable evening!"
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Out now! In this thoughtful profile by Urja Upadhyaya, U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE emerges as "a translator who treats languages as meeting places [and] a naturalist whose fieldwork is attention itself."
Read it now at https://bit.ly/48aa8hY

🎨 Multimedia artwork by Isabella Luna Damberger-Sheldon
A multimedia portrait of Arthur Sze with ginkgo leaves against a purple background. Text reads "Cal Alumni Association" and "Arthur Sze's Berkeley: Attention, Translation, and the Joy of Making" A quote reads: "As a student editor with a key, [Sze] wrote . . . at night with the scent of eucalyptus in the air and water as metronome. That ritual, solitude, sensory detail, and a tool that answers to touch, prefigures the poet he became." A quote reads: "Sze looks for 'silence inside of sound;' on campus it was the creek, in life it might be a café table or the bark of a eucalyptus. The discipline is to notice until noise yields texture."
November 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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On this the final day of our Across Borders and Through Time campaign, we send our sincere thanks to everyone who has donated to secure a vibrant future for translation at Copper Canyon Press!

Your heartfelt messages and gifts of support have proven that poetry in translation is a vital art.
A blue background with a heart held in hands. A donation progress bar shows $20,510 raised, or 82% of $25,000 goal. Text above and below the bar reads: "Today is the final day to participate in our Across Borders and Through Time campaign!" Thank you for supporting literary translation at Copper Canyon Press!
November 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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You won't want to miss this! On November 23rd, you can join three Copper Canyon Press poets—SHANGYANG FANG, LISA OLSTEIN, and JANE MILLER—for a FREE virtual reading and conversation.
A header reads: "Words Like Blades: a virtual reading with Shangyang Fang, Jane Miller, & Lisa Olstein." Three photos of the poets and their latest books, followed by the text: Sunday, November 23, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. ET on Zoom. Admission is free but registration is required. In this new series, poets and scholars Jennifer Franklin, Jane Huffman, Nathan McClain, and Ren Wilding, bring poets together to cultivate inclusivity and connection. This month, please join three Copper Canyon Press poets—Shangyang Fang, Jane Miller, and Lisa Olstein—for a celebration of poetry as resistance and refuge. “You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world . . . If you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.” —James Baldwin
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Thank you for making the Unifying Power of Translation, a reading and conversation with with U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE, PATTY CRANE, SHANGYANG FANG, and ROBIN MYERS, an unforgettable night!

Couldn't join us for the livestream? We invite you to view a recording of the event here: bit.ly/49O0y6z
Photos of Shangyang Fang, Arthur Sze, Robin Myers, and Patty Crane in a column on the left. On the right, text reads "Thank you for celebrating the Unifying Power of Translation with Copper Canyon Press!" Above and below this are quotations from the livestream, which read: " “Exquisite readings!” · “Congratulations to our U.S. Poet Laureate!” · “In poetry we are speaking a shared language” · “Such aching elegance” · “I feel so honored to witness the wisdom of this panel” “Your Swedish is beautiful!” · “Thank you for sharing the ancient and modern poetry” · “You’ve just encapsulated the nature of translation” · “Thank you for reading the Mandarin” · “Glorious analogy”
November 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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The most important tool in a translator’s toolbox is not fluency in a source language, but empathy. Skilled translators like PATTY CRANE feel their way into the implicit, emotional heart of the work. This emotional and cultural sensitivity frees us as readers to embrace new ideas and perspectives.
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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“[G]reat poetry always seems to beckon from its country of origin. And translators answer for us and make the journey.” —JOHN BALABAN
A world map above a quote that reads: "How small and provincial our world would be [without translation. Despite the impossibility of the journey, translation stamps our passports." —John Balaban, translator of Passing through a Gate Below the quote is a passport page with stamps from Beijing, Mexico, and Cairo.
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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There's just one week left to register for our free virtual reading and conversation with U.S. Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE, PATTY CRANE, SHANGYANG FANG, and ROBIN MYERS!

Reserve your spot at https://bit.ly/4qHpB1j! We can't wait to spend the evening with you!
Photos of the translators Robin Myers, Shangyang Fang, Arthur Sze, and Patty Crane with the header "Reminder: 5:15 PT | November 11, 2025" The text below reads: Join us for our free livestream celebration The Unifying Power of Translation: A virtual reading with U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Patty Crane, Shangyang Fang, and Robin Myers
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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When ARTHUR SZE was invited to become U.S. Poet Laureate, he identified translation as the focus of his Laureateship. Translation, ARTHUR teaches us, is not a remote literary exercise, but a world-opening practice: one that deepens our understanding and makes our worldviews more global.
A photo of Arthur Sze against a gray backdrop. Above him, a quotation reads: “Translation is particularly relevant today, because it makes the ancient contemporary, the foreign accessible, and the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual interior of human experience universal.” —Arthur Sze, 25th U.S. Poet Laureate
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Out now from Tricycle magazine: Translator and poet SHANGYANG FANG on the creative power of translation! Read the piece here bit.ly/3LhFprl and don't miss the chance to hear SHANGYANG speak on Nov. 11th at "The Unifying Power of Translation." Reserve your spot at bit.ly/3WuOAXH!
Write your reply 30+ Search Discover Following More feeds Trending Matt Goodwin Michael Myers Prince Andrew Kristi Noem Jamaica Recovery Dodgers Feedback • Privacy • Terms • Help A blue and yellow background with a photo of Shangyang Fang. Text reads: "New from Tricycle magazine: Poetry by Shangyang Fang and the poet on the creative act of translation" A blue and yellow background with a photo of Shangyang Fang. Text reads: "New from Tricycle magazine: Poetry by Shangyang Fang and the poet on the creative act of translation" Text slide From Tricycle: In addition to translating Song dynasty poetry, Fang iterates on classical Chinese forms in his own writing, playing with the slippages between English and Chinese. “I am obsessed with Chinese poetry; it’s in my bones,” [Fang] says. “But writing in a foreign language, I try not to make my native language a shackle, nor a wing. It’s more like a parallel, a shadowy friend walking side by side.” Text slide: “Being and Time” To see the lotus pond behind a pinewood shrine, the old man climbs to the top of mountains. He points to that void in front of him. “Are those lotuses or people? Or these are the people, those lotuses?” Pointing to this void beside him. It has passed the lotus season, which he spent with his dying wife. Half blind, the wind strings the creeks into one clink of a jade ring. A mallet making the bronze bell tremble. The monks chant. The youngest one, dozing most of his morning, lifts his eyelids: that pond full of startled egrets, flitting. —Shangyang Fang, from Burying the Mountain An invitation to attend the livestream: "The Unifying Power of Translation" It includes photos of the participants Arthur Sze, Patty Crane, Shangyang Fang, and Robin Myers. It includes the date and time of the event: Nov. 11th at 5:15 PT
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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You may have heard the cliché “lost in translation,” but did you know that it is also an incredible act of rebirth? As SHERAH BLOOR and TAYSEER ABU ODEH say, ". . . the losses [in translation] are also gains, which speak to the inexhaustible movement of meaning within and between languages."
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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We loved this illuminating conversation between the Poetry Foundation and RICHARD SIKEN about SIKEN'S yet unexhibited oil paintings, National Book Award finalist I DO KNOW SOME THINGS, and finding his way back to language following a stroke.

Read the full piece here: https://bit.ly/4oOzoB3
Two pages. The first page shows two of Richard Siken's oil paintings. The first painting is of a man with a blue face and yellow hair wearing a suit. He stands in front of three thin trees and a yellow backdrop. He has two-faces, one in profile and one centered. The second painting is in the same style. A man with a blue face, wearing a suit, against a flat yellow backdrop. He has a cloud coming out of each ear. The text on the graphic reads: "New profile out now from the Poetry Foundation!" And below that: "Don't Call Me During the Day: Catching up with Richard Siken in Tuscon." The second photo is a quote: "One of the most striking aspects of I Do Know Some Things is its form. The tight prose blocks are unfamiliar to anyone expecting the libidinal and languorous errancy of Crush, or the dizzying descriptive wanderlust of War of the Foxes. There is a powerful constriction here, as if Siken wants readers to witness him journeying back to his body." —Racquel Gutiérrez
October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Translation is a miracle—it allows us to travel through time, preserve the ephemeral, and connect with our lasting humanity.

Your gift directly supports our miracle-workers, the translators and poets like FORREST GANDER who ferry ancient poems through millennia so we can experience them today.
October 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Curious about how a small press sustains operations and brings your favorite books to life? Submit your application to join our 2026 Spring internship cohort by this Saturday, November 1st at 5:00 pm PT! Learn more at https://bit.ly/3JoeUjo
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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When we asked our translators how they move a poem from one language to another, their replies surprised us—they likened their creative processes to composing a cover of a song, hearing a poem afresh in “new music,” and choreographing a dance between original text and translation.
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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You can help Copper Canyon Press continue to promote understanding through the power of translation—the focus of Arthur Sze's flagship Laureate project: an anthology of global poetry in translation.

Our goal is to raise $25,000 by Nov. 15. Your gift will support our present and future translators.
Across Borders and Through Time
The Unifying Power of Translation
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October 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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Congratulations to ALISON C. ROLLINS whose collection BLACK BELL has been named a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award! 📖 BLACK BELL navigates what it means to be both invisible and spectacle, hidden and on display. Get your copy of BLACK BELL here: https://bit.ly/3IwBHW5
A photo of Alison C. Rollins above the cover of her book, Black Bell. The text reads "Maya Angelou Book Award Finalist / Black Bell / Alison C. Rollins."
October 22, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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On Nov. 7th, join I.S. JONES and Nicole Sealey for a reading to celebrate JONES'S APR/Honickman Prize-winning collection, BLOODMERCY!

Get tickets here https://bit.ly/47bGrfD and buy your copy of BLOODMERCY at https://bit.ly/3WKoC2u 🌟
October 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Such a good review of @joriegraham.bsky.social's recent work, including To 2040. Love this focus, among other things, on the "ever more pressing preoccupation" for the "lyric’s capacity to dilate the present moment, to stay in the now."
lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Oct 15
‘For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and measure – harbour a fullness of time which is neither mere chronology nor novelistic plot.’

Fiona Green on ‘To 2040’ and other recent work: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fiona Green · Chi Chi Trillip Trillip: Jorie Graham looks ahead
For Jorie Graham, the teeming possibilities of lyric – tense and mood, syntax and sound crossed with layout and...
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October 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Congrats to TYREE DAYE, NIKI HERD, PHILIP METRES, and ALISON ROLLINS whose collections are longlisted for the Maya Angelou Book Award!

This national literary award honors authors whose works demonstrate a commitment to social justice. We are so proud to publish these impactful books!
A red graphic reads "2025 Maya Angelou Book Award Longlist Honorees." Four book covers are stacked vertically. From top down, these are "A Little Bump in the Earth" by Tyree Daye; "Black Bell" by Alison Rollins; "Fugitive/Refuge" by Philip Metres; and "The Stuff of Hollywood" by Niki Herd.
October 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Our wonderful friends at Collected Works Bookstore are now offering autographed collections by U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze! ✨ Visit https://bit.ly/4hg61EX to collect signed editions of your favorite books by Arthur Sze, and support an independent bookseller today!
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM