Northeastern University's Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize was established in 1983 to honor the Northeastern University career of Samuel French Morse as poet, teacher, and scholar by publishing the work of emerging artists. The prize is awarded annually to the manuscript of a first or second book of poems by a U.S. poet and consists of a $1000 cash award and publication of the winning manuscript by Northeastern University Press/UPNE. Wesleyan Poetry Series Founded in 1959, the Wesleyan Poetry Series has distinguished itself through its success in bringing to the fore authors whose work has profoundly influenced the development of American poetry. Since issuing its first volumes, the poetry program has sought out those works that challenge the reigning aesthetic of the time. The series has published volumes that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other prizes. Publication of the anthology The Wesleyan Tradition prompted numerous magazines and critics to comment on the program’s influence. “Libraries concerned with building and maintaining a meaningful poetry collection are urged to enter a blank order for all the Wesleyan poetry program entries . . . They represent some of our more important younger poets and a few older members such as James Dickey, Louis Simpson, and David Ignatow . . . [The program] is highly recommended.”—Library Journal Wesleyan Poetry Series. CavanKerry Press Dedicated to the advancement of the art of writing and to outreach programs that bring this art to under-served communities, CavanKerry publishes established writers and hitherto unpublished writers, as well as out-of-print work, collections of essays, and anthologies that spotlight and support other arts organizations. From its inception, CavanKerry has placed an emphasis on publishing gifted though unrecognized poets and is committed to publishing three first collections a year. These manuscripts are selected from open submission without the more traditional fee-for-entry competition that support many first books. Fence Books Fence Books seeks to publish poets whose work is "excellent, challenging, and truly original." Affiliated with the journal Fence, the program sponsors the Alberta Prize, an annual series publishing a first or second book of poems by a woman poet, and the Fence Modern Poets Series, a prize series published in cooperation with saturnalia books. Four Way Books Four Way Books is a not-for-profit literary press located in New York City and dedicated to publishing poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers and by identifying and publishing writers at decisive stages of their careers. It publishes 6-8 books annually, including the winners of the biennial Levis Poetry Prize and the Intro Poetry Prize. Bread Loaf The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is the oldest and one of the most distinguished such conferences in the nation. The program sponsors a series of Bread Loaf Anthologies, among them The New American Poets, edited by Michael Collier, and The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Michael Collier and Stanley Plumly, which was hailed by Library Journal as “perhaps the best single volume of contemporary poetry now available.” In addition, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference sponsors three Bakeless Literary Publication Prizes annually, awarded for first books in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Bread Loaf poetry (and other) titles. Sheep Meadow Press Distributed by UPNE, the Sheep Meadow Press is a not-for-profit press devoted to poetry and other poetic concerns, including drama, letters, philosophy, painting, dialogues, and a cookbook. Recent titles from Sheep Meadow include HIV, Mon Amour by Tory Dent, Selected Poems of Luis Cernuda (in a bilingual edition), edited and translated by Reginald Gibbons, The Music We Dance To by Rebecca Seiferle, and Algebra of Night: New and Selected Poems, 1948-98 by Willis Barnstone.

Poetry Related Links Organizations & Publications Academy of American Poets American Poetry Review Basil Bunting Poetry Centre Contemporary American Poetry Archive Contemporary Poetry Review Electronic Poetry Center Internet Poetry Archive Library of Congress Poetry & Literature Center Modern American Poetry National Poetry Foundation New York City Poetry Calendar P N Review The Poetry Archive Poetry Daily Poetry Flash Poetry Magazine Poetry Project at St. Mark’s, NYC Poetry Review The Poetry Society (UK) Poetry Society of America Poets House Yahoo‘s List of Poetry Sites Authors Links to resources elsewhere on the web about these poets who, in one way or another, have been connected with our publishing program. Willis Barnstone John Cage Paul Celan Barbara Guest Susan Howe Joy Harjo Charles O. Hartman Heather McHugh Yusef Komunyakaa Charles Olson Peter Quartermain Joan Retallack Leslie Scalapino Jack Spicer Rosmarie Waldrop Louis Zukofsky

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