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Pulitzer Prize

40 Years of Poetry Publishing

By Alexandra Haehnert

November 22, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

40 Years of Poetry Publishing

Founded in 1972 by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, William O’Daly, and Jim Gautney, Copper Canyon Press started out selling hand-bound, letterpressed limited editions of poetry books out of the trunks of their cars.  Today, over forty years later, with nearly 500 poetry titles under its belt and operating out of a white clapboard house in […]

Filed Under: Publishing Tagged With: Ben Lerner, Copper Canyon Press, Crush, Delights & Shadows, Design, eBooks, Inseminating the Elephant, Kerry James Evans, Kindle, Kobo, Lucia Perillo, Lucille Clifton, Marketing, Natalie Diaz, National Book Award, Nobel laureate, Nook, Pablo Neruda, poetry, Port Townsend, Pulitzer Prize, Rabindranath Tagore, Richard Siken, Ted Kooser, W.S. Merwin, War of the Foxes, Washington

Roosevelt High School Students Present Anthology at Powell’s

By Ooligan Press

July 28, 2013 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

It was the first time reading in public for many of the Roosevelt High School students who participated in the Where the Roses Smell the Best presentation at Powell’s on Hawthorne, July 11. This anthology of writing on the people, places and lifestyles of Portland is the first book produced by Unique Ink, the publishing […]

Filed Under: Ooligan at large Tagged With: Annie Bloom's, Broadway Books, Bus 75, Facebook, Heathman Hotel, Lombard Street, Paulann Petersen, Paulann Peterson, Poet Laureate, Powell's Bookstore, Pulitzer Prize, Renee Mitchell, Unique Ink, Where the Roses Smell the Best

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