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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:

My Last Door

by Wendy Bishop
2007 :: $20
"Love, sex, marriage, children, birds, animals, the moon and stars, books, history, myth, life, life, life. These are what the reader finds in this abundant book -- but more, so much more that one feels these poems accrue to the sum of a life, a life lived with absolute attention and fierce presence. Nothing is left out. We range from Bismarck, North Dakota to Heraklion; we suffer the plagues of Biblical Egypt, and we dream of apple pie before a kitchen stove in winter..." - Frank X. Gaspar

 

Yellow Jackets

by Patti White
2007 :: $14
"Patti White's new book, Yellow Jackets, is wildly ventriloquistic. Where else would you find sumo wrestlers, Izzy the cat, King Louis the Child, Jimmy Hoffa, the residents of Thicketty, South Carolina, couples at their burnt-out ends, and yellow jackets in one collection? All empathetically expressed, and without a single repeat. If you’re bored with books about what the poet ate for breakfast, this one, with its refreshing lack of ego and its generously associated images is surely worth a look." -- Lola Haskins