In Memoriam: Rochelle Ratner, 1948-2008
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The 2008 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize Finalists and Grand Prize Winner will be announced in late June.

Steve Fellner Wins Thom Gunn Award

Winner of the 2006 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize

Blind Date With Cavafy

The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry: (tie) Steve Fellner, Blind Date with Cavafy (Marsh Hawk Press); Daniel Hall, Under Sleep (The University of Chicago Press)

To view a complete list of the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry nominees, click here.

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Marsh Hawk Press books often highlight the affinity of poetry and the visual arts. Each book is produced with particular care to visual style, often including reproductions of artwork alongside poems. Marsh Hawk Press also sponsors readings and exhibits, and hosts a Web site with a rotating exhibition space and several blogs focused on poetry and visual art. Its books, events, and Web presence all share the mission to act as a dissemination point for poetry and visual art. Marsh Hawk also offers a poetry prize judged by a different poet each year.

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Spring 2008 Book Launch at the Ceres Gallery, NYC.

Stephen Paul Miller and Barbara McIntosh selling books.

Sandy McIntosh introduces Spring 2008 Marsh Hawk Press launch Jane Augustine reads from A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing
Sandy McIntosh introduces Spring 2008 Marsh Hawk Press launch. Jane Augustine reads from A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing.
Tom Rink reads Karin Randolph reads from her prize winning book, Either She Was.
Tom Fink reads from Clarity and Other Poems. Karin Randolph reads from her prize winning book, Either She Was.

photos by Claudia Carlson

Either She Was

EITHER SHE WAS by Karin Randolph

In Karin Randolph’s Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize-winning collection, David Shapiro finds “that it is always present tense as an empiricist casting a shadow and casting for shadows.” The language of Randolph’s prose poems is subtle, supple, and ever-inventive, and the speed and acuity of her perceptions will startle.

A Woman's Guide to Mountain Climbing

A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO MOUNTAIN CLIMBING by Jane Augustine

On a journey through mountains both actual and symbolic, a woman meditates on selfhood, family interactions, yearning, pain, and death in the midst of the ongoing beauty of the finite world.

Clarity and Other Poems

CLARITY AND OTHER POEMS by Thomas Fink

Teeming with the fragments of ancestors’ whispers and mistranslated ad lingo, these poems are intricate and wildly disjunctive. We may be stuck in a world where “Casinos are in every cortex,” but that doesn’t mean that there isn’t also room for “aspiring Democracy” to burst forth.

Our Artistic Advisory Board

Toi Derricotte
Denise Duhamel
Marilyn Hacker
Allan Kornblum
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Alicia Ostriker
Marie Ponsot
David Shapiro
Nathaniel Tarn
Anne Waldman
John Yau

Our Supporters

We wish to acknowledge with thanks those individuals and institutions who have supported the work of the press:

Anonymous, Barbara Deming Memorial Award Foundation, Barry Magid, Boro, Inc., Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, Joanna and Daniel Rose Foundation, Monterey Fund, Oenophiles for Poetry, Christine Panas, Filamore Tabios, Sr. Memorial Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Virginia, Waters & Associates, Frank Wolfarth Walsh, Xavier University.