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Anhinga Press

P.O. Box 3665
Tallahassee, FL 32315
Phone: (850) 442-1408
Email: info<at>anhinga<dot>org
Web: 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: 6-10 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 (established in 1984) was renamed in honor of the late Robert Dana and is how the Anhinga Press Robert Dana Prize for Poetry. The 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 Press Robert Dana 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:

The Diamond Dog

by Diane Wakoski
2010 :: $15
The Diamond Dog, Diane Wakoski’s 19th collection, calls into being a world where the scientific and the mytho-poetic interact and combine. Here, in her first collection of entirely new work since Argonaut Rose (1998), planets move in the perturbed ellipses of warped, Einsteinian space. Yet too, in the realm of the Diamond Dog, stars still turn in their Ptolemaic spheres. Here, the air can be Linden green, Lorca green, and the stem of a carnation can be the line on an astronomer’s spectrograph, the signature of oxygen in some distant star.

 

Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls

by Erika Meitner
2011 :: $17
"These cool, hot poems about women and girls in danger and on the prowl, coming of age and being of age, are full of startling detail and vivid setting. Meitner's range, wit, compassion and her alertness to the moments where domestic and collective experience intersect, make these poems memorable. This book is a seriously good read." —Daisy Fried, author of My Brother is Getting Arrested Again

 

Vanishing Horizon

by Gerry LaFemina
2011 :: $17
"The Vanishing Horizon is full of gritty and graceful intelligence. Consistently and sumptuously detailed, these poems amount to a kind of landscape of the soul, that aspect of self that runs the gauntlet—weathers, wearies, kneels—then grins and keeps on. It’s hard to make a way in this world, to see clearly without coming to deep despair. This book is good light. —Tim Seibles, author of Buffalo Head Solos