Marsh Hawk Press

12/05/2025

Marsh Hawk Press has announced its 2026 contest judge: Denise Duhamel. Some contest details:

The MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE

($2,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book.)

The ROBERT CREELEY MEMORIAL AWARD

($250.00 Cash Prize)

The ROCHELLE RATNER MEMORIAL AWARD

($250.00 Cash Prize)

Beginning December 1, 2025, Marsh Hawk Press is accepting submissions of poetry manuscripts to the annual Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prizes. Deadline is April 30, 2026. We welcome submissions from emerging as well as established poets.

The Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize winner receives $2,000.00, book publication, and promotion. Winners of the Robert Creeley and Rochelle Ratner prizes, selected from finalists, receive $250.00 each.

For more information, please go to

The 2026 MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZES Online submissions only READ CONTEST RULES BELOW AND ENTER NOW CONTEST JUDGE: DENISE DUHAMEL   The MARSH HAWK PRESS POETRY PRIZE ($2,000.00 Cash Prize and Publication of the Book.) The ROBERT CREELEY MEMORIAL AWARD ($250.00 Cash Prize) The ROCHELLE RATNER MEM...

11/11/2025

You are invited to read the latest contributor to Marsh Hawk Press' "Chapter One" series: Lisa Fishman!

Lisa Fishman: “I Turn the Notebook Upside Down” First, I turn the notebook upside down.   That way, the spiral binding—a binding that spirals—is on the right-hand side, allowing room for the pencil in my left hand to move across the unlined page. It’s a Beinfang (good tooth?) sketchbook, ...

11/01/2025

You're invited to read Lisa Fishman, the November contributor to Marsh Hawk's "Chapter One" series:

Lisa Fishman: “I Turn the Notebook Upside Down” First, I turn the notebook upside down.   That way, the spiral binding—a binding that spirals—is on the right-hand side, allowing room for the pencil in my left hand to move across the unlined page. It’s a Beinfang (good tooth?) sketchbook, ...

10/16/2025

10/11/2025

From Marsh Hawk's Managing Editor:

Here’s my personal invitation for you to attend our 2025 Marsh Hawk Press Book Launch at Poets House, NYC. 10 River Terrace (at Murray Street), New York, NY 10282. 212-431-7920. It will be held on Friday, October 24th, and begins at 6:00 p.m. with readings in the Kray room (1st floor) and a reception upstairs. For those of you who have attended our launches, you’ll know that we don’t stint on the wine, cheese, and other refreshments.

Best,
Sandy McIntosh
MHC Publisher

10/11/2025

Eileen R. Tabios' two most recent Marsh Hawk Books are THE INVENTOR: A TRANSCOLONIAL POET'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY and the book of poems and poetics prose BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, I BECOME WAR. Both cited in CLMP's recommended reading for Filipino History Month:
https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-filipino-american-history-month-2025/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNXfBtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETExalN3YmdmWWdidjhVMGxvAR5MUekKJA8_-n1ruL8_XCFJwYV7CkdMzv4dUJHPqXXoG_ebqWtZcAcNGDBXsA_aem_2HVwV0Jcc32FwV_k50f2ow

For Filipino American History Month, observed annually during the month of October, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share some of the literature by Filipino American writers they recommend reading in celebration.   Nonfiction & Multi-Genre Works   Traceable Relation by Kimber...

10/01/2025

The very interesting story of how Liane Strauss created an audio book from her Marsh Hawk Press Award-winning collection!
https://marshhawkpress.org/liane-strauss-listening-allowed/

09/17/2025

You are invited!

09/01/2025

Michael McColly presents our latest "Chapter One" essay on The Writer's Craft in Real Life:

Michael McColly: “Lessons for a Tukkikat” Alone, on long walks, the memories still come to me, arising out of the streets of Chicago or along the pilgrim’s path of Santiago, blurred but pungent, those intimations surface of days and nights in the land of the Mandinka and Wolof. They appear, li...

08/01/2025

Our latest Chapter One anthology just became available for Advance Orders:

QUEST: A WRITER'S JOURNEY
presenting 26 memoirs and interviews of poets from diverse backgrounds who recall how they started. Edited by Sandy McIntosh and Susan Terris and Featuring

Ellen Bass
Lauren Blossom
Patricia Carlin
Denise Duhamel
Elaine Equi
Steve Fellner
Forrest Gander
Jane Hirshfield
Ilya Kaminsky
Danusha Laméris
David Lehman
Phillip Lopate
Denise Low
Mary Mackey
Charles A. Matz
Sandy McIntosh
Stephen Paul Miller
Rusty Morrison
Annalise Nassani
Jim Natal
Karin Randolph
Spencer Rumsey
David St. John
R. L. Stine
Liane Strauss
Eileen R. Tabios
Amber Flora Thomas
Tony Trigilio
Xiaoqiu Qiu

Some Advance Words:
"The art of writing a good line, of putting aside time to write, the resilience to deal with rejections, and the will to keep writing in dark times are all passed down from one poet to another. May this book carry on that tradition, one voice after another, describing, step by step, the rocky path down to the open sea."
– Danusha Laméris, from her Introduction

“ Simply the best collection of essays I’ve ever read about the urgencies, accidents, experiences, and desires that allow people to emerge as the writers they had never dreamt they might become.”
– Poet and Writing Professor David St. John
If you're interested in checking it out, Advance Order info is at

Marsh Hawk Press

07/12/2025

Congratulations to David Lehman for winning the 25th New Criterion Poetry Prize!

Criterion Books will publish Ithaca in the winter of 2026.

07/01/2025

You are invited to read Chris Solis Green's contribution to our "Chapter One" series on being an "Accidental Poet"--at times, it's hilarious!

Chris Solís Green: “The Accidental Poet” I like to say you know you’re in Tampa when you see a man without a shirt on… inside the airport. This is where I was for Chapter 1 of my poetry journey. Tampa is where culture and nature are paved over, stripped into strip malls and strip clubs. We ...