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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Big News! Copper Canyon to acquire Ausable Press. Click here for details.

News Flash! A New Hunger by Laure-Anne Bosselaar has been named an American Library Association Notable Book for 2008.

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News Flash! Congratulations to Steve Orlen whose The Elephant’s Child: New & Selected Poems, 1978-2005 was selected as a 2007 Pen USA Literary Award Finalist.

Congratulations to Tung Hui-Hu whose Mine was selected as a 2007 Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award Finalist.

Congratulations to Laura Kasischke whose Lilies Without was selected as a 2007 Balcones Poetry Prize finalist.

News Flash! Charles Simic is named the new U.S. Poet Laureate. His newest book, “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: Notebooks” will be available in September 2008.

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Ausable Press is deeply grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts for their generous support of our work.