Anhinga Press is an American, independent, literary press located in Tallahassee, Fla. The press began in 1972 as an outgrowth of the Apalachee Poetry Center, a non-profit organization promoting the reading and understanding of poetry. In 1976, founder and poet, Van Brock, expanded the scope of the press by publishing poetry chapbooks. From 1976 through 1981, Anhinga Press published eight chapbooks by regional Florida poets. In 1981, the press published its first full-length volume of poems "Counting the Grasses" by Michael Mott, and today publishes the winners of its two book award contests as well as manuscripts chosen by its board.

Rick Campbell Rick Campbell (born December 20, 1970) is an American-Canadian professional football coach who is the special teams coordinator for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was the Calgary Stampeders' defensive coordinator ...

, author of four poetry collections, is Director of Anhinga Press. Notable authors published by Anhinga Press include Frank X. Gaspar, Janet Holmes,

David Kirby (poet) David Kirby (born 1944) is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU). Biography Early life Kirby was raised in "the rural south" by a polyglot "medievalist college profes ...

, Judith Kitchen, Chad Sweeney,

Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye (; born March 12, 1952) is an Arab American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. In total, she has published or con ...

, Ruth L. Schwartz, Robert Dana, Erika Meitner,

Silvia Curbelo Silvia Curbelo is a Cuban-born, American poet and writer. Career She is the author of four collections of poetry including ''Falling Landscape'' ( Anhinga Press, 2015) ''Ambush'' (Main Street Rag, 2004), ''The Secret History of Water'' (Anhinga ...

and

Diane Wakoski Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937) is an American poet. Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial com ...

. Anhinga Press' titles have been reviewed in venues including ''Mid-American Review,'' ''Poetry Flash,'' ''Rattle,'' ''Cold Front Magazine,'' and ''Story South,'' and featured on ''Poetry Daily,'' ''Verse Daily,'' and the National Book Critic's Circle blog, ''Critical Mass,'' and reprinted in anthologies including

The Best American Poetry ''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the genera ...

. The press publishes the winners of its national poetry competition, the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, as well as manuscripts accepted through general submission and the winner of the Levine Prize in Poetry, administered by California State University, Fresno.

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External links

Anhinga Press Website

Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses > Directory of Member Publishers

Audio Reading: Anhinga Press Poets
Book publishing companies based in Florida Poetry publishers Publishing companies established in 1972