This fall, you can help Copper Canyon Press continue to promote global understanding by supporting the vision of wonderful poets and translators, including Arthur Sze, the 25th Poet Laureate of the United States.

Our goal is to raise $25,000 by November 15, 2025.

By making a gift today, you can join us in supporting Arthur in his next chapter as Poet Laureate and help manifest his flagship project—an anthology of global poetry in translation. Your support will help us bring previously inaccessible works to American audiences and realize the ideas and poems we could never have conceived in isolation.

Ever since our founding in 1972, literary translation and its unifying ability to connect people, places, and languages across borders and through time has been at the heart of what we stand for at Copper Canyon Press. We believe that translation is an essential part of ensuring that language remains alive, accessible, and—as our own translators attest to—empathetic.

Through your past support, you have made our world just a little more intimate by opening the door for these translations (and so many more):

Study of Sorrow: Translations by Shangyang Fang
You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine, edited by Sherah Bloor and Tayseer Abu Odeh
Passing through a Gate: Poems, Essays, and Translations by John Balaban
The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry by Arthur Sze
The Blue House: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer translated by Patty Crane
What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M., translated by Robin Myers
America by Fernando Valverde, translated by Carolyn Forché
Names and Rivers by Shuri Kido, translated by Tomoyuki Endo and Forrest Gander
Dancing with the Dead: The Essential Red Pine
Book of Twilight by Pablo Neruda, translated by William O’Daly

We are honored to remain the premier American home for global poetry, and, in Arthur’s words, to invite “poets, readers, and the literary community into a living web [that] brings everyone in conversation with each other.” When you make your gift today, you, too, can support the vision of the U.S. Poet Laureate and affirm the value of creating shared experiences, language, and feeling through the art of translation.

Defy borders and time.

Create a literary community driven by empathy.

We can’t wait to journey with you!

Our Rewards

Please take a look at the fabulous translation-themed thank you gifts we are offering, including a limited edition, numbered broadside signed by the Poet Laureate himself, as well as a copy of a brand new translation anthology, edited by Arthur Sze to be published by Copper Canyon Press in association with the Library of Congress.

$25 - One copy of The Separate Rose by Pablo Neruda translated by William O’Daly

$50 - One hardcover copy of The Disappearing Ox, interpreted by Lewis Hyde with illustrations by Max Gimblett

$75 - One copy, hot off the press, of the brand new anthology edited by Poet Laureate Arthur Sze

$100 - One copy, hot off the press, of the new anthology, plus a limited edition, numbered broadside signed by Poet Laureate Arthur Sze

$250 - One copy, hot off the press, of the new anthology, and one limited edition, numbered broadside BOTH signed by Poet Laureate Arthur Sze

$500 - A translation bundle that includes a signed copy of the new anthology, a limited edition signed broadside, a hardcover copy of The Disappearing Ox, and a copy of What Comes Back by Javier Peñalosa M., translated by Robin Myers, and Study of Sorrow: Translations, Song Dynasty Ci poetry translated by Shangyang Fang

$1,000 - All the rewards from the $500 level, plus one copy of every book we publish for one year

$5,000 - All the rewards from the $500 level, plus one copy of every book we publish for one year, plus your name printed in the back of each title we publish for one year.

We expect to fulfill rewards by late Spring 2026 following the publication of Arthur Sze’s anthology in April 2026. Thank you for your support!

Across Borders and Through Time

The Unifying Power of Translation