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Ahsahta Press
ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu
Description of the press and its mission:
Ahsahta is a not-for-profit all-poetry publisher that seeks out the best new poetry from an eclectic range of aesthetics—poetry that is technically accomplished, distinctive in style, and thematically fresh.
Year press began:
1974
Awards received by your press and its authors:
- The James Laughlin Award
- The Alice Fay di Castignola Award
- The Virginia Book Award
Open to unsolicited submissions?
currently only through contest (we publish runners-up)
Submission period:
Jan. 1 - Mar. 1
Guidelines for submitting:
ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/contest.htm
What the press really wants to see in manuscripts:
Something we haven't seen before that moves us.
What makes the press cringe?
Manuscripts with illustrations in crayon
Contests:
ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu/contest.htm
Number of books published in past year:
6
Average press run:
750-1000
Distributor:
SPD
Book Promotions:
All the above--featured on website, arranging readings, providing review copies--plus providing ARCs to pre-publication reviews and bookstores, e-mail announcements, and announcements on Facebook/MySpace
The Plum-Stone Game
by Wom-Po Kathleen Jesme
by Wom-Po Kathleen Jesme
In her third book of poems, Kathleen Jesme asks what happens if the ordinary ways of knowing are taken away—if one is suddenly unable to see or hear or has been stripped of the familiar past. What begins to show through when absence (or darkness) creates a different inner landscape? In five distinct but interconnected poem cycles, Jesme excavates these inner landscapes and discovers word artifacts to reveal new directions to dig, always bringing the reader somewhere unexpected.
Janet Holmes
ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu
NEW FROM AHSAHTA PRESS:
Zone : Zero by Stephanie Strickland
New & Selected Poems by Charles O. Hartman