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Anhinga Press

P. O. Box 10595
Tallahassee, FL 32302
Phone: (850) 442-1408 Fax: (850) 442-6323
Email: info<at> anhinga.org
Web: http://www.anhinga.org

Distribution: SPD Books per year: 6 Titles in Print: 50 Simultaneous submissions: yes Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 6 to 10 weeks Payment: royalties, cash, copies Contests: yes (see website)

Publisher's Description: Anhinga Press publishes full-length volumes of fine literature, principally poetry. For thirty years we have sought out the best writing available and brought it to the public in attractive and reasonably-priced editions. The Anhinga Prize for Poetry contest, which runs from February 15 through May 1, draws hundreds of entries each year from around the world.

On our website, you'll find sections containing information about the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, the Van K. Brock Florida Poetry Series, the Levine Prize in Poetry, and about each poet and book currently in print. This includes something about the poet and a sample of the work.

 

Recent titles:

Then, a Thousand Crows

by Keith Ratzlaff
2009 :: $15
"What could it mean to be gentle in an era of ill omen and terror? Ask Jesus or Mahatma Gandhi. Ask the omni-genius da Vinci, of whom Keith Ratzlaff writes, 'In his last great studies / Leonardo sketched the heart / as a cathedral, its vaults and arches / perfect in their calibrations.' Ask Ratzlaff himself, who - like Leonardo - makes art 'as if beauty might be / a graceful house for the blood / and so calm its turbulence.' Then, a Thousand Crows brings no easy answers, but instead the steely thing we must have to face the difficult questions: a guarded hope." - Stephen Corey, Georgia Review

 

The Poets Guide to the Birds

Ed. by Judith Kitchen, Ted Kooser
2008 :: $22
"birds and poetry have formed a special bond. Everyone has heard of an 'exaltation of larks,' but it seems that other collective nouns for birds are highly metaphorical. [. . .] to complicate matters, some poets have gone into further flights of fancy, fashioning imaginary birds. One even finds a surprising bird through Google. There may be a tendency for poets to romanticize birds, [. . .] But there is also a counterbalancing urge to see things as they are, and thus a large number of these poems contain unsettling moments - moments in which the poet describes the predator's unrelenting work, or encounters a resounding indifference." - Judith Kitchen

 

The Lost Country of Sight

by Neil Aitken
2008 :: $15
"The voice in these poems is that of a sighted, awake heart discovering its home in language and its homelessness in the world. Steeped in longing, the imagination here is concrete, vivid, sensuous, and ultimately erotic, even as it perceives that meaning and beauty are evanescent. This book is a full helping from the world's infinite fund of tears." - Li-Young Lee