New Issues Poetry & Prose

{{Short description|Literary publisher in Kalamazoo, Michigan}}

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New Issues Poetry & Prose is a literary press associated with Western Michigan University.{{cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/new_issues_poetry_amp_prose |title=New Issues Poetry & Prose | Small Press Database | Poets & Writers |publisher=Pw.org |date= November 6, 2008|accessdate=June 7, 2013}} It was founded by poet and Western Michigan University professor Herbert S. Scott. Editors have included poets William Olsen and Nancy Eimers.{{cite web|url=http://www.newissuespress.com/about/|title=About Us, New Issues Poetry & Prose|accessdate=July 30, 2018}}

The Huffington Post has called New Issues Press one of fifteen small presses in the United States that "exemplify the best qualities of [the American] publishing tradition."{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/independence-day-15-feist_b_631929.html |title=Anis Shivani: Independence Day: 15 Feisty Small Presses And The Books You're Going To Want From Them (PHOTOS) |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= July 2, 2010|accessdate=June 7, 2013}} After a two-week vote, Huffington Post readers named New Issues number one in the country among the fifteen small presses cited.

The press published predominantly poetry, along with some fiction titles, including the winning novels from 2004-2021 in the AWP Award Series in the Novel. The press awarded two poetry prizes each year, The New Issues Poetry Prize for a first book, and The Green Rose Prize for established poets.{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/resources/poetrycontests/#n |title=Poetry Contests: Books - Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=June 7, 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/resources/poetrycontests/#g |title=Poetry Contests: Books - Poetry Society of America |publisher=Poetrysociety.org |date= |accessdate=June 7, 2013}} The press closed submissions in 2021.

Winners of The New Issues Poetry Prize include Paul Guest, Sandra Beasley, Jason Bredle, Matthew Thorburn, Bradley Paul, Malena Mörling, Heidi Lynn Staples, Louise Mathias, Marsha de la O, and Cynie Cory. Winners of The Green Rose Prize include Corey Marks, Noah Eli Gordon, Seth Abramson, Joan Houlihan, Christine Hume, Martha Rhodes, Hugh Seidman, Ruth Ellen Kocher and Christopher Bursk.

The press has also published a number of prominent Michigan poets through its Inland Seas Poetry Series, including Jim Daniels, David Dodd Lee, Anthony Butts, Lee Upton, John Rybicki, and Mary Ann Samyn. Other notable poets published by New Issues Press include Michael Burkard, Khaled Mattawa, Claudia Keelan, Lisa Lewis, Brian Henry, Jericho Brown, Sarah Messer, Jon Pineda, Donald Platt, Rebecca Reynolds, Martha Serpas, Gladys Cardiff, and Stacie Cassarino.

All New Issues titles were designed through The Design Center by senior graphic design students in the Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University, under the supervision of Art Director, Nick Kuder {{cite web |url=http://wmich.edu/art/people/directory/kuder.html |title=Nick Kuder {{!}} Frostic School of Art {{!}} Western Michigan University |website=wmich.edu |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140913075733/http://wmich.edu/art/people/directory/kuder.html |archive-date=2014-09-13}} and Production Manager, Paul Sizer.