News Release

July 7, 2006

Boise State University's Ahsahta Press Announces Subscription Program for 2006-2007 Season Titles

Poetry lovers now have a new way to get a steady supply of books, courtesy of Boise State University’s Ahsahta Press.

Ahsahta, which is an all-poetry publisher, is starting a subscription service that will deliver six titles of new poetry per year to subscribers. The deliveries will arrive in September, January and March of each year. A subscription costs $60, a savings of $36, and subscribers also will receive a free book from Ahsahta’s backlist.

The 2006-2007 subscription will include a September shipment of books by Aaron McCollough, author of “Welkin,” which was published by Ahsahta in 2002, as well as by new author Kate Greenstreet. The press also will publish first books by Paige Ackerson-Kiely, winner of the 2006 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, and by Susan Briante. Lisa Fishman, whose “Dear, Read,” was published by Ahsahta in 2003, will have a new book, “The Happiness Experiment.” Susan Tichy, author of three previous books, will publish “Bone Pagoda,” works about the Vietnam War, in 2007.

The subscription service bridges a gap for book buyers, said Ahsahta Press director Janet Holmes.

“Many bookstores just don’t stock much poetry, and what they do have for sale tends to be books by very few very well-known writers,” Holmes said. “The traditional distribution methods don’t do a good job of getting new, young and relatively unknown poets into the stores.”

Ahsahta, the Mandan word for “Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep,” was founded at Boise State University in 1974 and now publishes six books of poetry per year, one of which is the winner of its annual Sawtooth Poetry Prize. For more information, visit http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu. 

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Contact: Janet Holmes, Ahsahta Press, (208) 426-2195, jholmes@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

July 12 is the deadline for undergraduate academic degree-seeking students to submit admission materials to Boise State University for the fall 2006 semester. Students must meet the deadline if they plan to take more than seven credits or apply for federal financial aid. For more information, call (208) 426-1820 or go online at http://admissions.boisestate.edu.

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