On the eve of the book release for ABIDE, 2025 Richard Snyder Prize Winner KT Landon is taking this show on the road. Here are some fall dates. If you’re in the area, drop by and say hi. Maybe pick… Read More »KT Landon hits the road
A staggering amount has happened this year for the Ashland Poetry Press. January We re-opened the 2025 Richard Sndyer Book Prize with Kim Addonizio as judge. Poetry Press Director, Chuck Carlise, also took over as Interim Director of the Ashland… Read More »2025 Yearbook
Pella Felton at Literary Underground reviews 2024 Richard Snyder Prize Winner, Valerie Perreault’s Neon Pastoral. “In many ways, Neon Pastoral functions as a modern Divine Comedy—a three-act journey through an inferno where hell is postmodern, capitalist, and viscous.”
Black Fork Review is back! Issue 12 is now live. Check it out here. Issue 12 of Black Fork Review is a story of transition and reinvention. The alphabet is reimagined; Jesus and Judas move toward their destinies; we consider… Read More »New Black Fork Review Issue
Steve Haven, author of our forthcoming The Long Silence of the Mohawk Carpet Smokestacks, 2nd Edition, will be reading in Ashland Wednesday night, along with Rosa Lane, poet, architect, and author of the recent Called Back. Haven taught at Ashland,… Read More »Steve Haven reading in ashland
Exciting News! The 2024 Richard Snyder Prize winner, Valerie Perreault’s Neon Pastoral, has been awarded the Scotti Merrill Award for an Emerging Poet by the Key West Literary Seminars (judge: Former U.S. Poet Laureate Bill Collins). Hailing form the Keys,… Read More »Valerie Perreault wins Key West Literary Seminars Award
This week we got to host short story writer and novelist Ian Stansel. Stansel is a walking text-book for fiction writers, a great teacher, and a good guy. My only regret is that we couldn’t just keep him around for… Read More »Ashland English Dept and Poetry press welcomes Novelist Ian Stansel
So we flew down to Key West for a few days, to celebrate the release of 2024 Snyder Prize winner, Valerie Perreault’s Neon Pastoral. It was better than expected. The turnout was outstanding. Key West is amazing. And Valerie brought… Read More »Release event for Valerie Perreault’s Neon Pastoral (in Key West)
This is our third year running. We’re practically a tradition. The 2025 deadline is November 1 $10/submission of one to two poems, 40 lines or fewer The winner receives $250 and 50 copies of a professionally designed broadside of their… Read More »2024 Broadside Contest: Now Reading
The Ashland Poetry Press is thrilled to announce that judge Kim Addonizio has selected K.T. Landon’s Abide as the winner of the 2025 Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize. The Ashland Poetry Press staff has also selected Michael Lawson’s Proof as Editor’… Read More »2025 Richard Snyder Prize Winner is K.T. Landon