New Issues Poetry & Prose is a literary press associated with

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. It was founded by poet and Western Michigan University professor Herbert S. Scott. Editors have included poets

William Olsen William Olsen (born Omaha, Nebraska) is an American poet. Life He was raised in Park Forest, Illinois. His poems and essays have appeared in "Chicago Review'', "Crazyhorse", "Gettysburg Review", "The Kenyon Review", "The Nation", ''The New Repu ...

and

Nancy Eimers Nancy Eimers (born 1954 Chicago) is an American poet. Life She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan Universi ...

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has called New Issues Press one of fifteen small presses in the United States that "exemplify the best qualities of he Americanpublishing tradition." After a two-week vote, Huffington Post readers named New Issues number one in the country among the fifteen small presses cited. The press publishes predominantly poetry, along with some fiction titles, including the AWP Award Series in the Novel. The press awards two poetry prizes each year, The New Issues Poetry Prize for a first book, and The Green Rose Prize for established poets. Winners of The New Issues Poetry Prize include

Paul Guest Paul Guest (born in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American poet and memoirist. Biography When he was twelve, Guest broke the third and fourth vertebrae in his neck in a bicycle accident, bruising his spinal cord and paralyzing him from the neck ...

, Sandra Beasley,

Jason Bredle Jason Bredle (February 16, 1976 – ) is an American poet and translator. Born in Indianapolis, he received degrees in English literature and Spanish from Indiana University, where he was named Ruth Halls Outstanding Young Artist in Poetry, and an ...

Matthew Thorburn Matthew Thorburn is an American poet. He is the author of three books of poems, ''Subject to Change'' (New Issues, 2004), ''Every Possible Blue'' (CW Books, 2012) and ''This Time Tomorrow'' (Waywiser Press, forthcoming 2013), and a chapbook, ''Dis ...

Bradley Paul Bradley Ormond Paul (born 1972, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet and screenwriter. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. His work has appeared in ''American Poetry ...

Malena Mörling Malena Mörling (born 1965), is a Swedish-American poet and translator. She is the author of two books of poetry, ''Ocean Avenue'', which won the New Issues Press Poetry Prize in 1998 and ''Astoria'', published by Pittsburgh Press in 2006. In 19 ...

, Heidi Lynn Staples,

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, and Cynie Cory. Winners of The Green Rose Prize include

Corey Marks Corey Marks is an American poet. Biography Corey Marks holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a BA in English from Kalamazoo College. He te ...

, Noah Eli Gordon, Seth Abramson,

Joan Houlihan Joan Houlihan is an American poet. She is the author of six books, most recently ''It Isn't a Ghost if it Lives in Your Chest'' (Four Way Books), winner of the 2021 Julia Ward Howe Award. Her other books are ''Shadow-feast'' (Four Way Books, 2018) ...

, Christine Hume,

Martha Rhodes Martha Rhodes (born Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, teacher, and publisher. Biography Martha Rhodes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. from The New School for Social Research and her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilso ...

Hugh Seidman Hugh Seidman (1940 – November 9, 2023) was an American poet. Life Seidman was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1940. He was a graduate of Polytechnic Institute of New York University, where he studied under Louis Zukofsky. His first book of poetry was pu ...

Ruth Ellen Kocher Ruth Ellen Kocher (born July 26, 1965, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American poet. She is the recipient of the PEN/Open Book Award, the Dorset Prize, the Green Rose Prize, and the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. She has received fellowshi ...

and Christopher Bursk. The press has also published a number of prominent Michigan poets through its Inland Seas Poetry Series, including Jim Daniels,

David Dodd Lee David Dodd Lee (born 1959) is an American poet, editor, and educator. Biography David Dodd Lee grew up in Michigan. He earned his undergraduate degree in painting and art history in 1986 and the MFA degree in Creative Writing in 1993, both from ...

Anthony Butts Anthony Butts (born July 28, 1969 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet. Life He graduated from Wayne State University with a bachelor's degree, from Western Michigan University, with an MFA, and University of Missouri with a PhD. He taught a ...

, Lee Upton,

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, and Mary Ann Samyn. Other notable poets published by New Issues Press include Michael Burkard,

Khaled Mattawa Khaled Mattawa (born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the Univers ...

Claudia Keelan Claudia Keelan (b. 1959) is an American poet, writer, and professor. She received the Regents’ Creative Activities Award, at the University of Nevada, Los Vegas. Life Claudia Keelan is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently ' ...

Lisa Lewis Lisa Lewis is an American poet and professor, born 1956 in Roanoke, Virginia. Biography Lewis is the author of six books of poetry and is the director of the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University. In 2011, she received an Individ ...

, Brian Henry, Jericho Brown,

Sarah Messer Sarah Messer (born 1966) is an American poet and author. She was raised in Marshfield, Massachusetts, in the Hatch Homestead, a house built in the 17th century that was the subject of her book ''Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New ...

Jon Pineda Jon Pineda (born Charleston, South Carolina) is an American poet, memoirist, and novelist. Life Jon Pineda was raised in Chesapeake, Virginia. He graduated from James Madison University and Virginia Commonwealth University. His work has appeared ...

, Donald Platt, Rebecca Reynolds, Martha Serpas, Gladys Cardiff, and

Stacie Cassarino Stacie Cassarino (born 1975) is an American poet, educator, editor, and mother. She is the author of two collections of poems, ''Each Luminous Thing'' (forthcoming) and ''Zero at the Bone,'' and a monograph, ''Culinary Poetics and Edible Images i ...

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, under the supervision of Art Director, Nick Kuder and Production Manager, Paul Sizer.

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