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Who We Are

 

Marsh Hawk Press Founding Editors (L to R): Stephen Paul Miller, Jane Augustine, Sandy McIntosh, Thomas Fink, Burt Kimmelman. Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, June 27, 2001.

Sandy McIntosh, Editor and Publisher

Tony Trigilio, Managing Editor

Editorial Board

Thomas Fink, Burt Kimmelman, Mary Mackey, Sandy McIntosh, Eileen R. Tabios, and Tony Trigilio

MARSH HAWK PRESS, INC., a 501(c)3 non-profit founded in 2001, publishes poetry and poetic memoirs for general readers and classroom instruction. Our poetry titles often highlight the affinity of poetry, memoir and the visual arts. We sponsor readings, exhibits, an online magazine, two websites, and several blogs focused on poetry and poetic memoirs, as well as backups to our Chapter One series publications. We also award the annual Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, the Robert Creeley Memorial Award, and the Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize.

  • BOOKS: The press seeks inclusion and diversity, publishing superb poetry by both established and debut poets in a wide range of genres. It produces titles with particular care for visual style, often including reproductions of artwork alongside poems. Publishing an average of six titles per year, the press has more than 100 titles in print.
  • THE CHAPTER ONE SERIES: features the memoirs of outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds, recalling the ways by which they found their start as writers. While creative writing programs seek to develop the talents of maturing writers, essential information about the development of the writing craft will be discovered in the early memoirs—the Chapter One’s—of established poets published in this series. In addition to posting a new Chapter One essay or interview monthly, we will publish a series of stand-alone volumes covering creativity, technique, poetic origins, alternative careers for poets not teaching poetry in academia, as well as an anthology of original essays and interviews for classroom and general use.
  • OTHER ACTIVITIES: The press publishes an online literary magazine, the Marsh Hawk Review, and sponsors both live and online readings, panels (including at AWP) and other presentations.
  • ARTISTIC ADVISORY BOARD: The press is advised by an artistic board of writers including Toi Derricotte, Denise Duhamel, Marilyn Hacker, Maria Mazziotti Gillan,
    David Lehman, Alicia Ostriker, Andrew Levy, Anne Waldman, and John Yau
  • FUNDING: The press has earned funding from the Poetry Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts through the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and by private individuals and foundations, such as the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Foundation.
  • AWARDS: Notable recent titles have twice won the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature; The Eric Hoffer Prize; the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry; the Calatagan Award from the Philippine American Writers and Arts, Inc.; the Best American Poetry Series; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships and NEA fellowships; and poems have been chosen for publication and performance publication in other media, such as NPR’s A Writer’s Almanac.
  • NOTABLE AUTHORS: include Jane Hirshfield, Arthur Sze, Denise Duhamel, David Lehman, Alfred Corn, Phillip Lopate, Sheila Murphy, Mary Mackey, Indigo Moor, Kim Shuck, Sharon Dolin, Harriet Zinnes, Eileen R. Tabios, Stephen Paul Miller, Chard deNiord, Burt Kimmelman, Sandy McIntosh, Geoffrey O’Brien, Paul Pines, and Steve Fellner.
  • PRESS PRIZES: Given annually: The Marsh Hawk Press Prize (book publication and cash award); The Rochelle Ratner Memorial Prize (cash award), and The Robert Creeley Memorial Prize (cash award). Judging is done independently each year by a major poet. Past judges include: David Lehman, Jane Hirshfield, Gerald Stern, Denise Duhamel, David Shapiro. Thylias Moss, Forrest Gander, Anne Waldman, Alicia Ostriker, Cornelius Eady, Charles Bernstein, Brenda Hillman, Stephanie Strickland, Mark Doty, Meena Alexander, Marge Piercy, John Yau, Mary Jo Bang, John Keene, and Elaine Equi.

 

Marsh Hawk Press Artistic Advisory Board

Sandy McIntosh, Executive Editor and Publisher

Tony Trigilio, Managing Editor

Toi Derricotte
Denise Duhamel
Marilyn Hacker
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
David Lehman
Alicia Ostriker
Andrew Levy
Anne Waldman
John Yau

In Memory of David Shapiro, Gerald Stern, Marie Ponsot, Robert Creeley, Paul Pines, Allan Kornblum, Rochelle Ratner, Corinne Robins, Madeline Tiger, Claudia Carlson, Heather Wood, and Harriet Zinnes. 

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Praise for Books

PAUL PINES: Charlotte Songs

The great themes—like Love, Death and Family— have inspired masterpieces and, alas, Hallmark Cards. In Charlotte Songs, Paul Pines celebrates his daughter. But, if you want the Hallmark Card version of fatherhood, you’ve come to the wrong place. Pines gives us the full paradox of living with his child as she grows from toddler to young woman. Inventive, humorous, baffling and poignant.

— Dalt Wonk
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