Anhinga Press is an American, independent, literary press located in Tallahassee, Fla. The press began in 1972 as an outgrowth of the Apalachee Poetry Center, a non-profit organization promoting the reading and understanding of poetry. In 1976, founder and poet, Van Brock, expanded the scope of the press by publishing poetry chapbooks. From 1976 through 1981, Anhinga Press published eight chapbooks by regional Florida poets. In 1981, the press published its first full-length volume of poems "Counting the Grasses" by

Michael Mott Michael Charles Alston Mott (8 December 1930 – 11 October 2019) was a British-born American author. He produced eleven poetry collections, four novels and a renowned biography of Thomas Merton. Life and career Mott was born in London in Decem ...

, and today publishes the winners of its two book award contests as well as manuscripts chosen by its board.

Rick Campbell Rick Campbell (born December 20, 1970) is an American-born Canadian football head coach and co-general manager for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League. He was the Calgary Stampeders' defensive coordinator from 2012 to 2013 and was also an ...

, author of four poetry collections, is Director of Anhinga Press. Notable authors published by Anhinga Press include

Frank X. Gaspar Frank Xavier Gaspar is an American poet, novelist and professor of Portuguese descent. A number of his books treat Portuguese-American themes or settings, particularly the Portuguese community in Provincetown, Massachusetts. His most recent novel ...

, Janet Holmes,

David Kirby (poet) David Kirby (born 1944) is an American poet and the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University (FSU). Biography Early life Kirby was raised in "the rural south" by a polyglot "medievalist college profess ...

, Judith Kitchen, Chad Sweeney,

Naomi Shihab Nye Naomi Shihab Nye ( ar, نعومي شهاب ناي; born March 12, 1952) is an American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. In total ...

, Ruth L. Schwartz,

Robert Dana Robert Dana (June 2, 1929 – February 6, 2010) was an American poet, who taught writing and English literature at Cornell College and many other schools, revived ''The North American Review'' and served as its editor during the years 1964–1968 ...

, Erika Meitner,

Silvia Curbelo Silvia Curbelo is a Cuban-born, American poet and writer. Career She is the author of four collections of poetry including ''Falling Landscape'' (Anhinga Press, 2015) ''Ambush'' (Main Street Rag, 2004), ''The Secret History of Water'' (Anhinga ...

and

Diane Wakoski Diane Wakoski (born August 3, 1937) is an American poet. Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s. She received considerable attention in the 1980s for controversial commen ...

. Anhinga Press' titles have been reviewed in venues including ''Mid-American Review,'' ''Poetry Flash,'' ''Rattle,'' ''Cold Front Magazine,'' and ''Story South,'' and featured on ''Poetry Daily,'' ''Verse Daily,'' and the National Book Critic's Circle blog, ''Critical Mass,'' and reprinted in anthologies including

The Best American Poetry ''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...

. The press publishes the winners of its national poetry competition, the Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry, as well as manuscripts accepted through general submission and the winner of the Levine Prize in Poetry, administered by California State University, Fresno.

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External links

Anhinga Press Website

Council of Literary Magazines and Small Presses > Directory of Member Publishers

Audio Reading: Anhinga Press Poets
Book publishing companies based in Florida Poetry publishers Publishing companies established in 1972