Founded in 1977, Sheep Meadow is a non-profit press dedicated to poetry, poets, and books of particular interest to poets. Sheep Meadow is attracted to poets of great merit who for one reason or another have been turned away from commercial publishers.
Among the more than 200 books that Sheep Meadow has published are works by Stanley Kunitz, Hayden Carruth, F.T. Prince, Stephen Berg, Alberto Rios, Bruce Smith, Christopher Middleton, Edward Field, Arthur Gregor, Rangi McNeil, Diana Der-Hovenessian, Kathryn Starbuck, Rebecca Seiferle, Raza Ali Hasan, Cleopatra Matthis, Tory Dent, and all the Barnstones, as well as translations of Yehuda Amichai, Paul Celan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernandez, Claire Malroux, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Yona Wallach, Pierre Martory, Cesar Vallejo, Manuel Bandeira, Luis Cernuda, and Fernando Pessoa. Among our translators are John Ashbery, Marilyn Hacker, Edwin Honig, Richard Zenith, David Tabbat, Reginald Gibbons, David Slavitt, Ted Hughes, and Yehuda Amichai translating himself.
This fall, Sheep Meadow will publish a hardcover edition of Stanley Kauffmann's memoir, Albums of a Life, which Ted Solotaroff has compared to "an album of carefully selected photographs that span a lifetime, they are unassuming and they matter." We will also publish Hermine Pinson’s latest, Dolores is Blue / Dolorez is Blues, and Margo Berdeshevsky’s debut collection, But a Passage in Wilderness. Marie Ponsot has praised Berdeshevsky's "poems of high-wire discovery" and calls But a Passage in Wilderness "a unity, a big book and a small cosmos." An edition of The Early Books of Yehuda Amichai Translated by Yehuda Amichai and Ted Hughes will also appear, in line with Hughes's suggestion that "the best translator of Yehuda Amichai is Yehuda Amichai."
2008 will see a collection of essays by Ted Solotaroff, poetry from Yerra Sugarman, Rika Lesser and Suzanne Gardinier, and translations of Pierre Martory, Hamutal Bar-Yosef, and Iman Mersal, by John Ashbery, Rachel Tzvia Back, and Khaled Mattawa, respectively.
Sheep Meadow Press books are distributed by The University Press of New England and available for sale on their website.
