The Role of the Poet

**Alabama University Press: Modern and Contemporary Poetics series

Ahsahta Press, specializing in poetry. 5 titles/year. Boise, ID.

Bedford St. Martin's--textbooks for Undergrads/anthologies

BOA Editions, Ltd. poems, poets on poetry

Bucknell University Press: contemporary poetry series, critical works on poetry

CavanKerry Press: non-profit literary press, poems.

Coffee House Press: contemporary poems & essays on poetry

Copper Canyon Press: poems

Duke University Press: American Cultural Studies (several series pertain)

Graywolf Press: 22 titles/year, 10% first time authors.

Johns Hopkins University Press: lots of contemporary poems; also criticism

Melville House Publishing: Lit Fiction, nonfiction, & poetry. New Jersey.

Ohio University press: contemporary poems

Pavement Saw Press. Nonprofit poetry. 4-5 full length titles, 50% first-time authors. Columbus, OH.

Persea Books. 15/year in New York.

Pitt Poetry Series. Billy Collins, Ted Kooser, Sharon Olds. Likes easy to read, electricity, unusual.

Red Hen Press: nonprofit poetry/memoir

Routledge (performance studies)

Sarabande Books: nonprofit literary press (poems)

Soft Skull Press.

Tupelo Press: nonprofit literary press

University of California Press (performance studies)

University of Georgia Press: Poets on Poetry Series

University of Illinois Press: National Poetry Series (poetry books)

University of Michigan Press: Poets on Poetry series

University of Pittsburgh Press: Poetry Series, and Series on Composition, Literacy, and Culture

University of Toronto Press: Studies in Book and Print Culture series.

Wesleyan University Press: Poems

Wings Press: contemporary poems, including Robert Bly, Donald Hall, Naomi Nye

Zoo Press: Literary, 10/year. Omaha, NE.