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PORT TOWNSEND — Copper Canyon Press, the small, nonprofit publishing house at Fort Worden State Park, is now the home of two Pulitzer-prize winning authors.
Today’s announcement that W.S. Merwin won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for poetry marked the second time that an author published by Copper Canyon Press has won one of literature’s prestigious awards.
Merwin won for “The Shadow of Sirius,” a collection of poems inspired by the poet’s memories of his life.
Copper Canyon Press also is the publisher for one of the finalists this year. Ruth Stone’s “What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems” was also nominated. In 2005, Ted Kooser won the Pulitzer for “Delights and Shadows.”
Copper Canyon has been publishing poetry since 1972, and works with established and emerging poets.
An expanded story appears in Tuesday’s editions of the Peninsula Daily News.
