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Ashland Poetry Press is a literary press associated with Ashland University. It was founded in 1969 by Ashland University professors Richard Snyder and Robert McGovern. Subsequent editors have included poets Steve Haven, Deborah Fleming, and current editor Chuck Carlise.

The press typically publishes three to five books per year and conducts the annual Richard Snyder Memorial Poetry Prize contest and the Ashland Poetry Broadside Award. Other publication series have included the Robert McGovern Series, the McGovern New and Selected Series, and a translation series, as well as occasional anthologies and essay collections.

Ashland Poetry Press titles have been named finalist for the National Book Award, and received citation for the Eric Hoffer “Da Vinci Eye” Award , the Independent Book Publisher Association Benjamin Franklin Award, the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Book Award (Bilingual category) , the Florida Book Award , the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry, and others.

Winners of The Richard Snyder Prize include Bruce Bond, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Vern Rutsala, Jason Schneiderman, Peter Grandbois, Margaret McKinnon, Laura Donnelly, J.David Cummings , Gabriel Spera , and Daneen Wardrop. Recent Snyder Prize judges have included Mark Doty, Matthew Rohrer, and Maggie Smith.

The Robert McGovern Series – which ran from 2007 to 2014 – featured nominations from an advisory board including Philip Levine, Marilyn Chin, Ruth L. Schwartz, Alice Fulton, Andrew Hudgins, and Natasha Tretheway. The McGovern Series published books by A.V. Christie, Christine Gelineau, and Laura Van Prooyen. The McGovern New and Selected Series has published titles by Mark Irwin, Arthur Vogelsang, Robert Philips, Richard Jackson, and A.V. Christie.

Other notable poets with books or broadsides on Ashland Poetry Press or whose work was printed in APP anthologies, include Pattiann Rogers, Seaborn Jones, Nick Samaras, David Ray, Carolyn Wright, Wendy Battin,  Nathalie Anderson, Julie Suk, Maria Terrone, David Mills , Miho Nonaka , Carlos Aguasaco , Dante Di Stefano, and Nancy Naomi Carlson.

The Ashland Poetry Press also publishes a literary journal, founded in 2019 by Ashland University MFA students, entitled Black Fork Review.