1992

Receives major multiyear grant from Mellon Foundation to help with organizational development, stabilization, and succession planning

1992

Poetry: The Unsayable Said, a national branding and marketing campaign, is launched through the support of a multiyear grant from Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Foundation

1992

Hayden Carruth wins the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Ruth Lilly Award for Collected Shorter Poems; the book is also a finalist for the National Book Award

1992

First grant from Lannan Foundation, for Hayden Carruth’s Collected Shorter Poems

1991

Publishes Pablo Neruda’s The Book of Questions, the first Copper Canyon Press book to sell more than twenty thousand copies

1990

Establishes nonprofit status

1990

Creates its first board of directors, whose initial members include Rick Simonson, Joe Wheeler, Denise Levertov, and Charles Johnson.

1990s

Publishes 83 books

1989

Thomas McGrath wins the Lenore Marshall Award for Selected Poems: 1938–1988, the first major award for a Copper Canyon Press book.

1985

Signs distribution agreement as one of the original publishers represented by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution

1984

Publishes Pablo Neruda’s Still Another Day, the first in a series of translations of the poet’s work

1983

Publishes Red Pine’s The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain, his first book of translations from the Chinese

1980s

Publishes sixty-two books, including collections by: • Barry Lopez • Pablo Neruda • Carolyn Forché • Robert Bringhurst • Jaan Kaplinski • Cold Mountain, translated by Red Pine • James […]

1974

Moves to Port Townsend, Washington; in residence with Centrum at Fort Worden State Park

1973

Publishes its first book, Gerald Costanzo’s Badlands: First Poems

1972

1972: Copper Canyon Press is founded in Denver, Colorado

1970s

Publishes forty-nine books and letterpress chapbooks, by poets such as: • Gary Snyder • Sam Hamill • W.M. Ransom • James Masao Mitsui • Robert Hedin • Richard Hugo • […]