Alice James Books
pressCooperative poetry press founded in 1973, now at UMaine Farmington; runs open book prizes.
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BOA Editions
pressRochester, NY nonprofit press publishing poetry, poetry in translation, and hybrid work since 1976, reading manuscripts only during periodically announced open periods.
Coffee House Press
pressMinneapolis nonprofit press publishing experimental poetry, fiction, essay, and literary translation, known for award-winning and internationally sourced titles.
Copper Canyon Press
pressPort Townsend nonprofit devoted entirely to poetry since 1972; one of the field's defining lists.
Four Way Books
pressNonprofit poetry and short-fiction press founded in 1993, known for open annual reading periods and a monthly online feature of poems in translation.
Graywolf Press
pressMinneapolis nonprofit with one of the most decorated poetry lists in the country.
Milkweed Editions
pressNonprofit Minneapolis press founded in 1980, known for ecological and place-based literature, publishing poetry (Ada Limón, Jake Skeets, Fady Joudah) alongside literary fiction and nonfiction.
Nightboat Books
pressBrooklyn-based nonprofit press publishing poetry, hybrid, and intergenre work at the experimental edge, with a strong line in archival queer and trans writing.
Omnidawn
pressOakland-based independent press (founded 1999) for innovative poetry and fabulist fiction, publishing primarily through a slate of annual juried contests (Open Book, 1st/2nd Book, Chapbook, Broadside, and Fabulist Fiction Chapbook prizes) and distributed by the University of Chicago Press.
Persea Books
pressIndependent New York house founded in 1975, known for a five-decade poetry list (Celan, Hikmet, Mandelstam, Rosal) and the annual Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award for debut women poets.
Sarabande Books
pressLouisville nonprofit independent press publishing poetry, short fiction, and essay; discovers new work chiefly through the Morton Prize in Poetry and Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction.
Tupelo Press
pressIndependent nonprofit literary press in North Adams, MA, publishing poetry chiefly through an annual open reading period rather than contests, offering a $1,000 advance and full support to selected authors.
Ugly Duckling Presse
pressBrooklyn-based nonprofit collective publishing letterpress and hand-bound editions of poetry, translation, drama, and artist books, run cooperatively rather than by a single editor-in-chief.
University of Pittsburgh Press (Pitt Poetry Series)
pressPublisher of the Pitt Poetry Series, a decades-old, high-volume university-press poetry list whose primary open entry point for new poets is the annual Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.
Wesleyan University Press
pressUniversity press whose Wesleyan Poetry Series has published Ashbery, Rich, and generations of poets since 1957, alongside strong scholarly lists in music and dance.