Wave Books
Wave Books is an American independent press focusing on the publication of poetry, with a focus on innovative, contemporary poetry and poetry in translation. Books published by Wave have been finalists for and winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature,
the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the National Book Award for Poetry. Writers published by Wave Books include CAConrad, Don Mee Choi, Timothy Donnelly, Kate Durbin, Renee Gladman, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, Douglas Kearney, Dorothea Lasky, Ben Lerner, Chelsey Minnis, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Hoa Nguyen, Mary Ruefle, Rachel Zucker, and others.
Wave Books Poetry Bus Tour 2006
Poetry Bus Tour was a literary event sponsored by Wave Books in 2006. It featured a tour of contemporary poets, traveling by a forty-foot Biodiesel bus, who stopped to perform in fifty North American cities over the course of fifty days.Wave's Annual Poetry Festival 2011: Poetry in Translation
Every two years from 2009-2013 Wave Books presented three days of poetry. It held three days of poetry in translation November 4–6, 2011, with the help of the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. The event featured film screenings, art exhibitions, lectures, discussions and readings with featured poets and translators.Book design
Wave books are published with simple covers, lacking the marketing blurbs common in the publishing world. Its translations avoid the use of facing pages of original and translated text, and the translation of Olio includes foldout, detachable pages.In 2021 Wave began producing its first audiobooks that are recorded as read by the author in a live audience setting.