I'm glad you mentioned Greywolf which started out as a small press in Minneapolis and has grown to something much more, including being the center of America's poetry revolution of the last twenty years sparked by Greywolf, Coffee House, Hanging Loose, BOA.Tia Chuca,, Fireband and more recent ones such as Chax,Haymarket,Noem, and Kaya.
Greywolf is the leading press to publish the leaders of the poetry revolution led by African American writers particularly in the Cave Canem group of 500 writers who include such PulitzerPrize winners as Tyhembia Jess, Natasha Tretheway, Tracy Smith, Greg Pardlo and on Keene. Kaya Press is another leader publising some of the top Asian-American writers, in
This is the kind of trade stuff I find useful and enjoy reading about. I don't have a shortlist in my head of good novels that originated at academic presses. I know many academic press editors do, but sometimes the light stays under the bushel.
I'm glad you mentioned Greywolf which started out as a small press in Minneapolis and has grown to something much more, including being the center of America's poetry revolution of the last twenty years sparked by Greywolf, Coffee House, Hanging Loose, BOA.Tia Chuca,, Fireband and more recent ones such as Chax,Haymarket,Noem, and Kaya.
Greywolf is the leading press to publish the leaders of the poetry revolution led by African American writers particularly in the Cave Canem group of 500 writers who include such PulitzerPrize winners as Tyhembia Jess, Natasha Tretheway, Tracy Smith, Greg Pardlo and on Keene. Kaya Press is another leader publising some of the top Asian-American writers, in
This is the kind of trade stuff I find useful and enjoy reading about. I don't have a shortlist in my head of good novels that originated at academic presses. I know many academic press editors do, but sometimes the light stays under the bushel.