Welcome to Spring Garden Press

Founded by graduates of the MFA program in Creative Writing at UNCG, Spring Garden Press is a not-for-profit independent literary press located in Greensboro, NC, a place Randall Jarrell once described as "Sleeping Beauty" for its uncanny ability to attract and produce so many wonderful writers. Our mission is to publish poetry that, by entering the world, wakens it.

Recent News

3 March 2008. Tung-Hui Hu has been awarded The San Francisco Foundation's James Duval Phelan Literary Award for his poetry manuscript Assigned to Okinawa. (link)

14 February 2008. Charlotte Matthews featured in the Greensboro News & Record. (link)

12 December 2007. A. Van Jordan has been featured in the December issue of The Cortland Review. Read The Synchronicity of Scenes, a consideration of poetry from the perspective of cinematography (supported with video), and two of his new poems (in text and audio). Hear Van discuss how he discovered the power of poetry when he realized people listened to his poems in a way they did not listen to his casual conversation. Part of that experience comes from the fact that his poetry is nothing we've heard before. Here is our cultural identity, his and ours. He calls it "communication across a racial/cultural line" unraveled as history and autobiography, blended with physics, jazz, and the blues, and told from the perspective of cinematography. Two new poems, "Breathing" and "A Song Composed from Forgetting," demonstrate how it all comes together. Read beyond the essay and poems in David Rigsbee's review of Quantum Lyrics, Van Jordan's third poetry collection, just published, where you will hear voices from across the culture, long silenced.

2 December 2007. A. Van Jordan featured in "Poet's Choice", Robert Pinsky's weekly column on poetry for the Washington Post.

6 November 2007. Houghton Mifflin releases a special gift edition of Natasha Trethewey's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Native Guard featuring a CD of the poems read by the author. For more information or to purchase the collection visit Houghton Mifflin or Amazon.com.

2 November 2007. “Where Physics, Poetry, and Politics Collide:” A. Van Jordan interviewed for The American Prospect. Read the complete interview here.

11 September 2007. Elizabeth Volpe of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, has been awarded the 2007 Robert Watson Poetry Award for her chapbook, Brewing in Eden. The final judge was the contest’s namesake, Robert Watson. Click here for more information and a list of finalists. The next contest will begin on 1 October 2007.

A 2001 and 2004 Pushcart Prize nominee, Volpe has had work appear in numerous journals, including The Adirondack Review, Illya’s Honey, The Louisville Review, Passager, Phoebe, Rattle, Red Rock Review, and Tiger’s Eye: A Journal of Poetry. She received first prize in the Briarcliff Review 2004 Poetry Contest and the 2006 Metro Detroit Writers Contest. New work is forthcoming in Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, Tar Wolf Review, and Epicenter.