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Established in 1976, Wake Forest University Press is a non-profit literary publisher
Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view....
 located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on the campus of Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a Private university, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, North Carolina, near the state capital Raleigh, North Carolina....
. Although small among university presses, it is a major publisher of Irish poetry
Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish language and the other in English language. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise....
 in North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
.

Wake Forest Press publishes poets from the Republic of Ireland and from Northern Ireland. Poets published include Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Carson

Ciar?n Carson, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a poet and novelist. He lives in Belfast....
, Austin Clarke, Harry Clifton, Denis Devlin
Denis Devlin

Denis Devlin was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Ireland modernist poetry poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s....
, Peter Fallon, Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke

Vona Groarke is an Irish people poet, and was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964. She has published four collections of poetry with the Gallery Press: Shale , Other People's Houses , Flight , and Juniper Street ....
, Michael Hartnett, Thomas Kinsella
Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poetry, translator, editor, and publisher....
, Michael Longley
Michael Longley

Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus ....
, Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon is a Northern Ireland poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
, Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian

Medbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland....
, Paula Meehan, John Montague
John Montague (poet)

John Montague is an Irish poet. He was born in New York and brought up in Tyrone. He has published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and a two volumes of memoir....
, Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Nuala N? Dhomhnaill is an Ireland poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary....
, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Eil?an N? Chuillean?in is an Irish poetry born in Cork ....
, Conor O'Callaghan
Conor O'Callaghan

Conor O'Callaghan is an Ireland poet, born in Newry in 1968. He has published three collections of poetry: The History of Rain , Seatown , and Fiction ....
, and Peter Sirr.






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Established in 1976, Wake Forest University Press is a non-profit literary publisher
Publishing

Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information – the activity of making information available for public view....
 located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on the campus of Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a Private university, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, North Carolina, near the state capital Raleigh, North Carolina....
. Although small among university presses, it is a major publisher of Irish poetry
Irish poetry

The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish language and the other in English language. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise....
 in North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
.

Wake Forest Press publishes poets from the Republic of Ireland and from Northern Ireland. Poets published include Ciaran Carson
Ciaran Carson

Ciar?n Carson, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is a poet and novelist. He lives in Belfast....
, Austin Clarke, Harry Clifton, Denis Devlin
Denis Devlin

Denis Devlin was, along with Samuel Beckett and Brian Coffey, one of the generation of Ireland modernist poetry poets to emerge at the end of the 1920s....
, Peter Fallon, Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke

Vona Groarke is an Irish people poet, and was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964. She has published four collections of poetry with the Gallery Press: Shale , Other People's Houses , Flight , and Juniper Street ....
, Michael Hartnett, Thomas Kinsella
Thomas Kinsella

Thomas Kinsella is an Irish poetry, translator, editor, and publisher....
, Michael Longley
Michael Longley

Michael Longley is a Northern Irish poet.Longley was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and subsequently read Classics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he edited Icarus ....
, Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon

Derek Mahon is a Northern Ireland poet. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland....
, Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian

Medbh McGuckian is a poet from Northern Ireland....
, Paula Meehan, John Montague
John Montague (poet)

John Montague is an Irish poet. He was born in New York and brought up in Tyrone. He has published a number of volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories and a two volumes of memoir....
, Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry from County Armagh, Northern Ireland as well as an educator and academic at Princeton University....
, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Nuala N? Dhomhnaill is an Ireland poet.Born in Lancashire, England in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary....
, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Eil?an N? Chuillean?in is an Irish poetry born in Cork ....
, Conor O'Callaghan
Conor O'Callaghan

Conor O'Callaghan is an Ireland poet, born in Newry in 1968. He has published three collections of poetry: The History of Rain , Seatown , and Fiction ....
, and Peter Sirr. The Press also published The Donegal Pictures, a book of black and white photographs by photographer Rachel Geise (now Brown).

Other noteworthy publications include two anthologies, The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women’s Poetry, 1967-2000, and the Wake Forest Series of Irish Poetry, volume 1. The New North, an anthology of contemporary Northern Irish poetry, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded and donation assisted program that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence....
 and selected and edited by Chris Agee, will be published in late 2008.

For a number of years, Wake Forest University Press published a bilingual series of 20th-century French poetry, but that series is no longer active.

The Press began when Dillon Johnston, Irish scholar and professor of English, realized how few titles of contemporary Irish poetry were consistently available in the United States. Supported by the administration at Wake Forest, he established the press in 1976. Johnston retired from Wake Forest in 2003, but remains an advising editor. He teaches at Washington University.

Jefferson Holdridge, who received his doctorate at University College Dublin, is the press's director and editor. He is also Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, specializing in Irish literature. Staff includes Assistant Director and Manager, Candide Jones, and a workforce of student interns.

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