New Issues Poetry & Prose


New Issues Poetry & Prose was a literary press specializing in poetry and literary fiction. Founded in 1996, the press closed submissions in 2021.
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History

New Issues was founded by poet and Western Michigan University professor Herbert S. Scott, and run with support from the university. Editors have included poets William Olsen and Nancy Eimers.
The Huffington Post called New Issues Press one of fifteen small presses in the United States that "exemplify the best qualities of publishing tradition." After a two-week vote, Huffington Post readers named New Issues number one in the country among the fifteen small presses cited.
The press awarded two poetry prizes each year, The New Issues Poetry Prize for a first book of poetry, and The Green Rose Prize for established poets.
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 include Michael Burkard, Khaled Mattawa, Claudia Keelan, Lisa Lewis, Brian Henry, Jericho Brown, Sarah Messer, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Donald Platt, Rebecca Reynolds, Martha Serpas, Gladys Cardiff, Stacie Cassarino, and Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.
From 2004-2021 the press published the winning novels in the AWP Award Series in the Novel.
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 and Production Manager, Paul Sizer.

The New Issues Poetry Prize

  • 2020 - James Henry Knippen, Would We Still Be
  • 2019 - Daniel M. Becker, 2nd Chance
  • 2018 - Chet'la Sebree, Mistress
  • 2017 - Nina Puro, Each Tree Could Hold a Noose or a House
  • 2016 - Courtney Kampa, Our Lady of Not Asking Why
  • 2015 - Sawnie Morris, Her, Infinite
  • 2014 - Abdul Ali, Trouble Sleeping
  • 2013 - Kerrin McCadden, Landscape with Plywood Silhouette
  • 2012 - Marni Ludwig, Pinwheel
  • 2011 - Andrew Allport, the body | of space | in the shape of the human
  • 2010 - Jeff Hoffman, Journal of American Foreign Policy
  • 2009 - Judy Halebsky, Sky=Empty
  • 2008 - Justin Marks, A Million in Prizes
  • 2007 - Sandra Beasley, Theories of Falling
  • 2006 - Jason Bredle, Standing in Line for the Beast
  • 2004 - Kevin Boyle, A Home for Wayward Girls
  • 2003 - Cynie Cory, Bradley Paul, Barbara Maloutas, Louise Mathias, Ever Saskya, Heidi Lynn Staples, and Matthew Thorburn
  • 2002 - Paul Guest, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World
  • 2001 - Sarah Mangold, Household Mechanics
  • 2000 - Elizabeth Powell, The Republic of Self
  • 1999 - Joy Manesiotis, They Sing to Her Bones
  • 1998 - Malena Mörling, Ocean Avenue
  • 1997 - Marsha de la O, ''Black Hope''

The Green Rose Prize