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Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collections accepted through general submission, panel selection, and solicitation by the editors. [ 1 ]
The press achieved national attention when Copper Canyon poet W.S. Merwin won the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry [4] in the same year another Copper Canyon poet, Ted Kooser, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was appointed to a second year as United States Poet Laureate. [5]
BOA Editions, Ltd. is an American independent, non-profit literary publishing company located in Rochester, New York, founded in 1976 by the late poet, editor and translator, A. Poulin, Jr., [1] and publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Frontier Poetry publishes much of its content online and boasts over 500,000 annual site visitors. Poetry, essays, interviews with important literary figures, craft essays, submission opportunities to other literary magazines and publications, book reviews by début authors such as Aja Monet of Haymarket Books, and literary and cultural criticism are consistent features.
Since then it has published over a hundred and fifty poetry collections. [ citation needed ] Lapwing Publications publishes in a variety of formats: pamphlets, chapbooks, and soft back books. [ 2 ] Lapwing Publications sells some of their pamphlets in E-Book format and plans to eventually have the entire back catalogue in electronic form.
Hybrid publishing is the source of debate in the publishing industry, with some viewing hybrid publishers as vanity presses in disguise. [7] [dead link ] However, a true hybrid publisher is selective in what they publish and will share the costs (and therefore the risks) with the author, whereas with a vanity press, the author pays the full cost of production and therefore carries all the risk.
They are sometimes handmade or saddle-stitched, a format best suited for small print runs. Compared to a full-length poetry collection, a pamphlet is fairly inexpensive to produce. Some poets design and print their own pamphlets. [2] The poetry pamphlet has always been a good way for new poets to reach an audience.
ALA Notable Books for Adults (established 1944) is an annual list selected by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the ALA. Within RUSA, a 12-member Notable Books Council selects "25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, non-fiction, and poetry books for the adult reader." [1]