Center For Literary Publishing imprint: 22 books

Mountain West Poetry Series Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Winner of the 2010 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University Mountain West Poetry Series   In his first collection of poems, &luckier, Christopher J Johnson explores the depths to which we can know our most intimate friends, habits, and—even more so—selves. From a mosaic of...

Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University Mountain West Poetry Series “These poems are intent on calling out the migratory beauty of this world, in a neighbor-voice: friendly, from the yard nearby, pointing out stuff we might not have noticed. They...

Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University Winner of the 2014 Colorado Prize for Poetry,* Supplice* is the second installment in T. Zachary Cotler’s sonnet sequence that began with *Sonnets to the Humans.*These are amatory sonnets, but with love and rhyme...

Winner of the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

"Joshua Kryah is redefining what it means to write spiritual poetry. This is not another book about longings for the spiritual; this is a book of offerings to the spiritual. These poems answer the plea of Yeats's spirits ('We are starved') and give them what they crave, depicting the particulars...

Mountain West Poetry Series Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University The poems in Derek Henderson’s Songs are “translations” of a film cycle of the same name, shot by American filmmaker Stan Brakhage (1933–2003) to document his and his family’s...

Mountain West Poetry Series Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Winner of the 2007 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

Winner of the 2011 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

"Science claims it will one day be able to eliminate fathers from the equation by mating bone marrow with ovum. When that day comes, I imagine this book, along with a handful of other works (King Lear, Fun Home) will become even more necessary. Herein find the blueprints for the mystery, the...

Selected from the country’s leading literary journals and publications—Colorado Review, Creative Nonfiction, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorse, The Normal School, and others—Beautiful Flesh gathers eighteen essays on the body, essentially building a multi-gender, multi-ethnic...

From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México...