The New Poets Project

The New Poets Project is a community-driven effort to publish debut collections by emerging poets at Copper Canyon Press. 

[antigonick]

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

Richard Siken, excerpt of The Worm King’s Lullaby (via antigonick)

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[newpoetsproject]

Attn: Richard Siken fans

We’re offering a special reward for generous backers of the New Poets Project: the RICHARD SIKEN COLLECTOR’S SET!

What’s in this collector’s set, you might ask?

Limited-edition hand-bound book

Rare audio recording 

Letterpress poetry print

Check out how you can support emerging, young poets and their work here!

That’s right--you’ll get a signed, hand-bound limited edition of War of the Foxes with unpublished lines of poetry handwritten by Richard Siken on the inside cover. Produced in collaboration with Spork Press, only a handful of copies are available. 

Plus a limited-edition poetry print featuring lines from Siken’s poem “Dots Everywhere,” printed from hand-set metal type on antique presses at Expedition Press.

Support emerging poets and their first books here!

[luthienne]

The slow moon hangs its beam; I shake my head, / Wishing and cursing; / Love has me haunted, hunted to this place;

Theodore Roethke, from Straw for the Fire (via luthienne)

[outcrying]

“You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.”           Seaside Improvisation by Richard Siken

[sarcolinedream-deactivated20181]

“It’s nothing like I thought it would be and closer to what I meant.”

— Richard Siken

[newpoetsproject]

Find out how you can get a signed, hand-bound limited edition copy of War of the Foxes here.

[exhaustingmemory]

Something has happened in the paint tonight and it is worth keeping. It’s nothing like I thought it would be and closer to what I meant.

Dots Everywhere by Richard Siken (via exhaustingmemory)

Check out how you can get a limited-edition poetry print featuring lines from “Dots Everywhere,” printed from hand-set metal type on antique presses at Expedition Press.

Find out more at the New Poets Project Kickstarter page.

[antigonick]

All night the trees stand silent in the dark, not touch-ing.

Richard Siken, excerpt of The Stag and the Quiver (via antigonick)

[shitiunderline]

In the wrong light anyone can look like a darkness.

Richard Siken, War of the Foxes (via shitiunderline)

[shelfdesk]

my signed copy of war of the foxes came in today! i carried it in from the rain :0

[newpoetsproject]

Beautiful!! Want your own signed, hand-bound limited edition copy of War of the Foxes? Check out the New Poets Project for more.

[januaryhoney]

Richard Siken / The Language of the Birds

[newpoetsproject]

Want a signed, hand-bound limited edition War of the Foxes? Get yours here.

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[newpoetsproject]

Learn more about Ocean Vuong and publishing his first book with Copper Canyon Press here

[medeae]

bb-8 ft. war of the foxes

[newpoetsproject]

<3 Check out how you can snag a signed, limited edition War of the Foxes HERE <3

[kick-drum-hearts]

[newpoetsproject]

“Notebook Fragments” from Night Sky with Exit Wounds / Ocean Vuong

[newpoetsproject]

Support emerging poets and their debut books. Check out the New Poets Project here.

[poetsandwriters]

Writing, if nothing else, is a bridge between two people, a bridge made of language. And language belongs to all of us. If I enjoy a poem, that just means I am recognizing within it something of myself, something I must already possess. Therefore, to love a poem is to love a part of myself revealed to me by another person…I really believe that writing is the closest thing we have to true magic. Where else, but in words, can we discover each other out of thin air?

Ocean Vuong (via poetsandwriters)

[antigonick]

teach me how to hold a man the way thirst holds water. Let every river envy our mouths. Let every kiss hit the body like a season.

Ocean Vuong, excerpt of A Little Closer to The Edge (via antigonick)

[newpoetsproject]

Watch OCEAN VUONG & CAMILLE RANKINE tell their first book stories,

And help Copper Canyon Press publish books by new voices like theirs for years to come.

Check out the ‪New Poets Project about see what it’s all about:

It’s about extraordinary books.

It’s about new poets.

It’s about the beauty of indie, nonprofit publishing and the power of community.