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Founded in 1999 by poet Chase Twichell, Ausable Press (pronounced aw-SAY-bul) is a not-for-profit independent literary press located on the East Branch of the Ausable River in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York. Its mission is to publish poetry that investigates and expresses human consciousness in language that goes where prose cannot.
We believe that art is our best hope of understanding our world, and that poetry in particular has the power to change the way we perceive ourselves in that world. We also believe that independent presses have a responsibility to nurture and preserve for future generations our clearest thinking and expression, especially in this age of war and ecological gambling.
“Poetry tells us what it means to be human. We are the only species that needs to learn over and over what it means to be itself.”
—Russell Banks
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