Wave Books (established 2005) is an American independent press focusing on the publication of poetry, with a focus on innovative, contemporary poetry and poetry in translation. This independent publisher has published books by CAConrad, Don Mee Choi,

Timothy Donnelly Timothy Donnelly (born June 3, 1969, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Life He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University's MFA in Creative Writing program. He is an associate profe ...

, Kate Durbin,

Renee Gladman Renee Gladman (born 1971) is a poet, novelist, essayist, and artist. She has published prose works including the Ravicka series of novels and the crime novel, ''Morelia''; the poetry collection, ''Calamities''; and a monograph of drawings, ''Prose ...

Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published seven poetry collections. His 2010 collection, ''Lighthead'', won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipient ...

Tyehimba Jess Tyehimba Jess (born 1965 in Detroit) is an American poet. His book '' Olio'' received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Biography Early life Tyehimba Jess was born Jesse S. Goodwin. He grew up in Detroit, where his father worked in that city's ...

Douglas Kearney Douglas Kearney (born 1974) is an American poet, performer and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California. His work has appeared in ''Nocturnes'', ''Jubilat'', ''Beloit Poetry Journal'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''Poetry'', ''Pleiades'', ''Iow ...

Dorothea Lasky Dorothea Lasky is an American poet. She has published four full-length collections of poetry through Wave Books and one through Liveright/W.W. Norton, along with releasing chapbooks and appearing in various literary journals. She is currently ...

Ben Lerner Benjamin S. Lerner (born February 4, 1979) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and critic. He has been a Fulbright Scholar, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, a finalist for the National Book Award, a finalist for the National Bo ...

, Chelsey Minnis,

Eileen Myles Eileen Myles (born December 9, 1949) is a LAMBDA Literary Award-winning American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades. No ...

Maggie Nelson Maggie Nelson (born 1973) is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aes ...

, Hoa Nguyen,

Mary Ruefle Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published many collections of poetry, the most recent of which, ''Dunce'' (Wave Books, 2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist f ...

Rachel Zucker Rachel Zucker is an American poet born in New York City in 1971. She is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, ''SoundMachine'' (Wave Books 2019). She also co-edited the book ''Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections'' ...

, and others.

Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour 2006

Poetry Bus Tour Poetry Bus Tour was a literary event sponsored by independent poetry publisher Wave Books in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a forty-foot Biodiesel bus, who stopped to perform in fifty North American cities over the co ...

was a literary event sponsored by Wave Books in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a forty-foot

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bus, who stopped to perform in fifty North American cities over the course of fifty days.Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour 2006
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Wave's Annual Poetry Festival 2011: Poetry in Translation

Wave Books presented three days of poetry in translation November 4–6, 2011, with the help of the

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at the

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. The event featured film screenings, art exhibitions, lectures, discussions and readings with featured poets and translators.

Recent publications

* ''Yi Sang: Selected Works'' edited by Don Mee Choi (translated by Choi, Jack Jung, Joyelle McSweeney, and Sawako Nakayasu), September 2020 * ''The Pedestrians'' by

, April 2014 * ''If I Don't Breathe How Do I Sleep'' by Joe Wenderoth, April 2014 * ''Talkativeness'' by

Michael Earl Craig Michael Earl Craig is an American poet and farrier living in Livingston, Montana. He was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1970. Craig is the author of six books of poetry. His work has been included in the anthologies ''Isn’t It Romantic'' (2004), Ever ...

, April 2014 * ''Language Arts'' by Cedar Sigo, April 2014 * ''Etruria'' by

Rodney Koeneke Rodney Koeneke (born September 12, 1968) is an American poet. Life and career Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Koeneke was raised in Tucson, Arizona and Hacienda Heights, California. He graduated with a BA iHistoryfrom the University of California, Berk ...

, April 2014 * ''Poems (1962-1997)'' by

Robert Lax Robert Lax (November 30, 1915 – September 26, 2000) was an American poet, known in particular for his association with Trappist monk and writer Thomas Merton. Another friend of his youth was the painter Ad Reinhardt. After a long period of dri ...

, November 2013 * ''Soul in Space'' by Noelle Kocot, October 2013 * ''Trances of the Blast'' by

, October 2013 * ''The Inside of an Apple'' by

Joshua Beckman Joshua Beckman is an American poet. Life Joshua Beckman was born in 1971 New Haven, Connecticut, and graduated from Hampshire College. He is the author of eight collections of poetry, including ''The Inside of an Apple'' (which was a finalist fo ...

, September 2013 * ''People on Sunday'' by Geoffrey G. O'Brien, September 2013

References

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External links

Wave Books Website

Poetry Bus Tour 2006

Wave Books profiled in the Los Angeles Review of Books
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