Ahsahta Press, a not-for-profit literary publisher, was founded at Boise State University to preserve the best works by early poets of the American West, including many underpublished women poets. Peggy Pond Church, H.L. Davis, Hazel Hall, Gwendolen Haste, Haniel Long, and Norman MacLeod are among the early Western writers Ahsahta Press has restored to print. Ahsahta Press seeks out and publishes the best new poetry from an eclectic range of aesthetics—poetry that is technically accomplished, distinctive in style, and thematically fresh. In 2001, a generous donor made it possible for Ahsahta to establish the Sawtooth Poetry Prize, an award for a book-length collection of poetry judged by a poet of national repute.
Submissions from 2001
Fictional Teeth, Linda Dyer
Submissions from 1995
How Crows Talk and Willows Walk, Gary Esarey
Prayers for the Dead Ventriloquist, D.J. Smith
Submissions from 1994
Few and Far Between, Dick Barnes
Theory of Twilight, Gary Short
Submissions from 1992
Jerusalem of Grass, David Axelrod
The One Right Touch, Katharine Coles
The Year-God, Gerrye Payne
Submissions from 1991
Portraits of Women, Julie Fay
Sky River, Nan Hannon
Submissions from 1990
Disturbances, Elio Emiliano Ligi
Going Home Away Indian, Leo Romero
Submissions from 1989
The Woman in Red, Cynthia Hogue
Men At Work, Bill Witherup
Submissions from 1988
The Abalone Heart, Barbara Meyn
Curved Like An Eye, George Perreault
Up Here, Donald Schenker
Submissions from 1987
The Country of Here Below, Wyn Cooper
To The Fierce, Howard W. Robertson
Submissions from 1986
Westering, Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Submissions from 1985
Flights of the Harvest-Mare, Linda Bierds
Submissions from 1984
The Dark is a Door, Susan Strayer Deal
Deer in the Haystack, Dixie Partridge
At the Tent of Heaven, Philip St.Clair
Submissions from 1983
The Clock of Moss, Judson Crews
Anvil of Roses, Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Submissions from 1982
Hannah's Travel, Richard Speakes
Submissions from 1981
Laws of the Land, David Baker
To Touch The Water, Gretel Ehrlich
Agua Negra, Leo Romero
Submissions from 1980
No Moving Parts, Susan Strayer Deal
Selected Poems, Hazel Hall
To The Natural World, Genevieve Taggard
Submissions from 1979
Over Desoto's Bones, Conger Beasley, Jr.
The Hearkening Eye, Hildegarde Flanner
Songs, Charley John Greasybear
Submissions from 1978
Selected Poems, H. L. Davis
Stealing The Children, Carolyne Wright
Submissions from 1977
Winter Constellations, Richard Blessing
Headlands, Rising, Robert Krieger
My Seasons, Haniel Long
Submissions from 1976
New & Selected Poems, Peggy Pond Church
The Selected Poems of Gwendolen Haste, Gwendolen Haste
A Taste of the Knife, Marnie Walsh