Founded in 1977, The Sheep Meadow Press is a nonprofit press dedicated to publishing poetry and belles-lettres.

Among the more than 250 books that Sheep Meadow has published are works by Stanley Kunitz, Emily Fragos, Hayden Carruth, F.T. Prince, David Jones, Stephen Berg, Alberto Ríos, Bruce Smith, Christopher Middleton, David Harsent, Grey Gowrie, Michael Schmidt, Alan Jenkins, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Norman Manea, George Szirtes, David Ignatow, Rebecca Seiferle, Raza Ali Hasan, Cleopatra Mathis, Hermine Pinson, Suzanne Gardinier, Tory Dent, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Rika Lesser, Duriel Harris, Laren McClung, Brandon Courtney, Aliki, Tony and Willis Barnstone, and Khaled Mattawa.

Sheep Meadow has published translations of Yehuda Amichai, Paul Celan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Federico García Lorca, Umberto Saba, Miguel Hernandez, Claire Malroux, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Yona Wallach, Pierre Martory, César Vallejo, Iman Mersal, Manuel Bandeira, Luis Cernuda, and Fernando Pessoa. Among our translators are John Ashbery, Marilyn Hacker, Edwin Honig, Estelle Gilson, Richard Zenith, David Tabbat, Reginald Gibbons, Khaled Mattawa, David Slavitt, Ted Hughes, and Yehuda Amichai. 

Sheep Meadow Press books are distributed by Syracuse University Press.