Poets & Writers

Ahsahta Press Closes Its Doors

writing program at Boise State University announced the closing of Ahsahta Press, a lauded poetry publisher housed at and subsidized by the Idaho university and led by director and editor Janet Holmes, a member of the creative writing faculty since 1999. “Professor Holmes has decided to step away from the editorship and to close the press to focus on her own writing,” the announcement stated. The news sent a shock wave through the national community of poets, many of (2018) and (2014) were published by Ahsahta.

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