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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · Jun 5

To each of you who supported our "It Takes All of Us" campaign with a donation, a share, or a kind word—

thank you for your community,
thank you for your grace.

Please enjoy this reading of "Grace" by Kelli Russell Agodon from DIALOGUES WITH RISING TIDES—it's our gift to you.

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 1d

Want to gain professional experience with an independent publisher? Curious about how nonprofit presses sustain their operations? Through November 1st, you can apply to be a Copper Canyon Press intern and gain hands-on experience across departments ✨

To join our team, visit: https://bit.ly/39xP30I

A white background with green Copper Canyon Press marks. A yellow circle on the right reads "NOW ACCEPTING: Internship Applications for Spring 2026!"

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 2d

Join us on Nov. 11 at 5:15 PT for a reading and conversation about the unifying power of translation with U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Patty Crane, Shangyang Fang, and Robin Myers!

To reserve your spot, visit: https://bit.ly/3WuOAXH. We can't wait to spend the evening with you!

An open envelope reads "You're invited!" Photos of Robin Myers, Shangyang Fang, Arthur Sze, and Patty Crane overlay the message. Below, text reads: "The Unifying Power of Translation: A reading with U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Patty Crane, Shangyang Fang, and Robin Myers."

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight! Join RICHARD SIKEN and Mathias Svalina for a virtual evening of poetry! SIKEN will read from his latest collection, I DO KNOW SOME THINGS, a finalist for the 2026 National Book Award.

Tune in to the free live stream here: https://bit.ly/3IFKx7Q We hope to see you tonight! ✨

A blue background featuring photos of Richard Siken and the cover of I Do Know Some things. Text reads: "Tom Sanders Memorial Reading: Featuring Richard Siken & Mathias Svalina. Thursday, October 9, 2025; 6pm PST / 8pm CST; Free and open to the public with a virtual live stream

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI and RICHARD SIKEN whose collections are finalists for the 2025 National Book Award! 🌟

Winners will be announced at a livestreamed ceremony on Nov. 19th. Register at https://bit.ly/48TAcj9

Congratulations to all honorees—it is an honor to be among you!

Three slides: The first reads "We are honored to announce that two Copper Canyon Press titles are finalists for the 2025
National Book Award!"

The second slide depicts the cover of Gabrielle Calvocoressi's The New Economy and the third depicts the cover of Richard Siken's I Do Know Some Things.

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 4d

Happy pub day to SHANGYANG FANG’s collection, STUDY OF SORROW: TRANSLATIONS. Fang breathes contemporary life into the poems of twenty-nine Song Dynasty Ci poets.

Learn more and get your copy here: https://bit.ly/4nM6Rvi

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 4d

We are pleased to introduce our final NBA longlisted collection: NATALIE SHAPERO's STAY DEAD!

With a sardonic voice, SHAPERO asks what it means to survive as a working artist living in late-stage capitalism, and wonders “whether being born is worth it.”

Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/46WwjaD

Two slides. The first shows the cover of Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero, with the following publicity quote: "Varied and surprising as they are, there is something bracing about the negativity of the poems in Stay Dead. They are uncompromising in their refusal of easy answers, the little lift that comes from appealing to love . . . at the end of the poem." —Los Angeles Review of Books

The second slide shows the poem "Lithol Red" against a pale yellow backdrop. The poem reads:

"Truly, it is not good to be an actor. It is better
to be a painter, to be something
with the potential to have one’s work degraded by the sun.
To really fear it. I practice at home
with fruit. I set them on the sill for weeks
and observe them turning sallow. Worst is the tomato.
I see myself in its red. It demands
its own kind of knife. It’s so prissy. Just for once get cut,
why don’t you, with what cuts everyone else—”

—Natalie Shapero, from Stay Dead

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 5d

Another Monday, another chance to meet a stellar member of our intern team! This #MeettheInternMonday, we're delighted to introduce Anaiah. Read her Q&A here: https://bit.ly/46gCF5B

Applications for the Spring 2026 intern cohort are now open! Apply at the link above ⬆️ We can't wait to meet you!

A photograph of Anaiah, seated against a black backdrop and smiling. Her hands are folded over a print periodical laying open on a table, and she wears collegiate cords over a red crewneck t-shirt.

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 9d

Calling all poetry lovers: Expedition Press is hosting their first-ever broadside contest!

We've long partnered with Expedition Press for broadsides and more. To participate, submit your work by October 31st! ✨ More details at their website: https://bit.ly/485ByHb

A carousel of three images. The first has a yellow background and reads: "Expedition Press' Broadside Contest is now open! Expedition Press is hosting their first-ever broadside contest, and we wanted to share the love, spread the word, and let you know! Scroll through to see their stunning broadside of Victoria Chang's poem from The Trees Witness Everything."

The following two pages depict the broadside in its packaging and against a worn wooden table backdrop. The poem reads: "There is a bird and a stone / in your body. Your job is not / to kill the bird with the stone." —Victoria Chang

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 10d

We’re thrilled to introduce National Book Award longlist honoree, THE NEW ECONOMY by GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI. Lyrical and unafraid, these poems center survival, inviting us to name our fears and to write to who has left us.

THE NEW ECONOMY is available for preorder now! https://bit.ly/484UwxI

A photo of the book cover with the following quotation against a pale yellow backdrop: "Survival and renewal are at the heart of Calvocoressi’s exploration of
childhood memories, the ungendered body’s aging, and the commitment to living through fear and pain.” —Publishers Weekly

The second slide includes a poem. It reads:

Snow Day Cistern

“The snow cloaked the redbud
with its whiteness and didn’t
make a big deal about it. Didn’t

crush the redbud or suck up
all the oxygen. I watched for a long
time. In my office trying to make

some ideas go together. My eyes
hurt a lot and I thought, Just look wide.
Tried to sit with the blurriness

and nausea. Flakes reeling outside,
covered the car. Blanket,
is what I thought. The weather

vessel said it wouldn’t last for long.”

—Gabrielle Calvocoressi,
from The New Economy

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 10d

Tomorrow, October 2nd, LISA OLSTEIN will read from her latest work, DISTINGUISHED OFFICE OF ECHOES at the Harry Ransom Center. A discussion with Elizabeth McCracken, book sales, reception, and a book signing will follow.

Get your tickets at https://bit.ly/3VL6KEq. We hope to see you there!

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 11d

Happy pub day to NATALIE SCENTERS-ZAPICO’s collection, MY PERFECT COGNATE. These poems weave between the borders of violence and softness, motherhood and isolation, the US and Mexico. These poems are a translingual landscape that breaks open borders.

Get your copy here: https://bit.ly/429zYjX

Two slides. The first slide depicts the cover of My Perfect Cognate against a pale yellow backdrop, with the Copper Canyon pressmark in the bottom right corner.

The second slide includes an excerpt from “COGNATE
an interrogation of the Oxford English
Dictionary.” It reads:

1.c. If a cognate is a relative on the mother’s side as opposed to an agnate, is
this why I miss the mother of my childhood? Not the mother who fell
down the stairs, who stayed in the US, who survived cancer after cancer
after cancer.

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 12d

In 1968, 25th US Poet Laureate ARTHUR SZE penned his first poem in a calculus lecture at MIT. In 2025, he sits down with MIT's The Tech to discuss his lifelong poetic practice, the works that inspire him, and the generative powers of translation.

Read the full interview here: https://bit.ly/4nkENzi

A quote from Arthur Sze against a pink background.

It reads: "[W]hen I say poetry must resist all forms of coercion, . . . I mean the real poem is oftentimes about shedding control and losing all sense of where you’re going. . . If you have an agenda, you’re cutting yourself off from those possibilities of discovery.

There’s no form of coercion [in translation]. The person who picks up the pen and makes their own translation has to discover how to use their voice, their facility with language, their syntax, and make it theirs."

—ARTHUR SZE
interviewed by The Tech

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 12d

Welcome to another #MeettheIntern Monday! Today we are delighted to introduce you to our talented intern, Bleah! Read her Q&A here: https://bit.ly/46gCF5B

P.S. Interested in learning about publishing? Applications for our next intern cohort open this Wednesday! Visit the link above to learn more!

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 15d

Did you know that Santa Fe’s Collected Works Bookstore has partnered with Arthur Sze to offer signed copies of his books? Support independent bookstores and get a signed collection from the 25th US Poet Laureate by visiting their website cwbookstore.com, or call 505-988-4226!

A photo of Arthur Sze with a collage of his works, including The Silk Dragon II and The Glass Constellation. The text reads: "Collected Works Bookstore is the official home of signed collections from Arthur Sze!"

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 16d

In anticipation of the National Book Awards shortlist announcement, we’re thrilled to celebrate each of our three longlisted collections! First up: I DO KNOW SOME THINGS by RICHARD SIKEN 📖

Read "Bed" and more from this powerful collection and get your copy here: https://bit.ly/4pHuoza

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 17d

Tonight's the night! 🌟 Please join us in cheering on our very own NATALIE SHAPERO as she competes on Jeopardy!

Visit jeopardy.com/watch to find your local channel or stream the full episode starting tomorrow on Hulu.

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 18d

Happy pub day to LISA OLSTEIN’s collection, DISTINGUISHED OFFICE OF ECHOES. A collage-, cutout, and erasure-based collection that explores the intersection of word and image. Read more and get your copy here: https://bit.ly/46DJz3L

A series of three photos. The first is the cover of Distinguished Office of Echoes, which depicts an anatomical illustration of a person, veins and organs visible.

The second image is a page from Olstein's book. It is an erasure of the first page of a preface (source unspecified) and reads:

EFACE. / This volume is published with the hope of supplying / a want often expressed / in order to / render it, / a complete picture of the type.

The third and final image is another erasure poem from the collection, accompanied by an image of a human's spinal cord and brain on the left margin. The visible text reads:

The successive points of / departure / at / regular intervals along / the course of / leaving

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 19d

Welcome to #MeettheIntern Monday! We are delighted to introduce you to the first of our talented interns, Ollie!

Read our 60-second Q&A with Ollie and learn more about how they support the Press by visiting our blog: https://bit.ly/46gCF5B

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 19d

Congratulations to JENNIFER CHANG (@twignoise)! She's the winner of this year's Virginia Literary Award (@libraryofva) for her book, AN AUTHENTIC LIFE! We've long supported and been supported by the Library of Virginia with this award and are thrilled for Jennifer this year!

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 25d

Today we are publishing YOU MUST LIVE. Translated and edited by SHERAH BLOOR and TAYSEER ABU ODEH, this bilingual anthology from Gaza and the West Bank witnesses the realities of the Palestinian genocide, gathering voices from poets currently living in Palestinian territory. https://bit.ly/4nzqh6z

A photo of the book cover for You Must Live: New Poetry From Palestine against a light blue backdrop.

The second slide is an excerpt from the poem "I have never seen a corpse intact" by Waleed al-Aqqad. It reads:

Still, we wanted to hold you. But you were coming apart
into your own blood.
We were scared your face would be changed,
the smile you were known by
lost. We said goodbye
to you in your small death like the death
of sparrows.
We rearranged you.
We placed your severed hand across your chest,
covered your wounds with flowers,
cried as you wanted.
On your tombstone, we will not chisel "dispossessed."

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations, ARTHUR SZE, the twenty-fifth Poet Laureate of the United States! A longtime Copper Canyon poet, Sze will center the power of poetry and translation to “...deepen our attention, connect, and live more fully.”

Read more and discover Sze’s work at our website: https://bit.ly/4glCmd4

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · Sep 10

Please join us in congratulating GABRIELLE CALVOCORESSI (@gabbat.bsky.social), NATALIE SHAPERO, and RICHARD SIKEN (@richard-siken.bsky.social) on being longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award!

Congrats to all finalists! Read the full announcement here: https://bit.ly/4ghN3xj

2025 National Book Awards Longlist for Poetry

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Poetry

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy pub day to I.S. JONES’s 2025 APR/Honickman First Book Prize winning debut, BLOODMERCY. This lush and striking collection reimagines the tale of Cain and Abel as sisters through the dense geography of girlhood into young womanhood. Learn more and get your copy here: https://bit.ly/4nqlRyJ

Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy pub day to NATALIE SHAPERO's poetry collection, STAY DEAD. In Shapero’s cutting, sardonic voice the reader is asked what it means to be a working artist under capitalism; which individuals are permitted earnest expression of self; and “whether being born is worth it." https://bit.ly/3VF9q6h

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Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · Sep 8

We'll soon be publishing this powerful anthology of Palestinian poetry - YOU MUST LIVE - and are thrilled to have poems from it in the New York Review of Books. This simple, haunting one is from Khaled Juma: buff.ly/Z6fMikU. We'll have more next week, and YOU MUST LIVE will be in bookstores soon.