Sheep Meadow Press will return in the fall of 2026.

Save the dates!

Return Party at Poets House!
Thursday, September 17, 7:00 p.m.
10 River Terrace, New York City
refreshments provided
with readings by Hamutal Bar-Yosef and Greg Miller

Return Party at Gallery 40!
Tuesday, September 22, 7:00pm
40 Cannon St., Poughkeepsie, New York
adjacent to the new offices of Sheep Meadow Press
refreshments provided
with readings by Hamutal Bar-Yosef and Greg Miller

HAMUTAL BAR-YOSEF is the most recent recipient of the Bialik Prize in Literature (2026) for significant contributions to Hebrew literature. Her poetry has received numerous awards, including The Jerusalem Prize for Poetry (1997), The President of Israel Prize for Poetry (2002), and the Brenner Prize (2005).  Her poems have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Ukrainian, and Yiddish. Three of her collections have been translated into Arabic (Cairo 2010, Paris 2013, Ar'ara 2025) by Na'im Araidi, Nidaa Khouri and Moufid Sidawi. She contributes regularly to the Arabic-Hebrew monthly الإصلاح . Having been a visiting professor in Paris and Moscow, as well as Columbia University, Bar-Yosef now lives in Jerusalem. There, she has volunteered as a driver of Palestinian children going to Jerusalem hospitals, contributes to Ha'aretz, recently writing about the plight of Bedouins north of the Dead Sea. Bar-Yosef has participated in many demonstrations against the polices of the current Israeli government. She speaks basic Arabic and continues to nurture friendships and family ties with Palestinians during these difficult times.

GREG MILLER’S first three books of poetry—Iron Wheel, Rib Cage, and Watch were published by the University of Chicago Press; his most recent collection, Now and Then Here and Now: New and Selected Poems, by Sheep Meadow Press. A professor emeritus of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, Miller has had writing residences at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Yaddo, MacDowell, the Camargo Foundation, the Camac Centre d’Art, and the Gladstone Library. A scholar of seventeenth-century English poetry, Miller has published several books on the poetry of George Herbert. Edward and George Herbert in the European Republic of Letters, co-edited by Miller, was recently published by Manchester University Press. Miller’s translations of the poetry and prose of the freethinking French poet Théophile de Viau are forthcoming from Études épistémè in Paris.

Founded in 1977, The Sheep Meadow Press is a nonprofit press dedicated to publishing poetry and belles-lettres.

Among the more than 250 books that Sheep Meadow has published are works by Stanley Kunitz, Emily Fragos, Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Hayden Carruth, F.T. Prince, David Jones, Stephen Berg, Alberto Ríos, Bruce Smith, Christopher Middleton, David Harsent, Grey Gowrie, Michael Schmidt, Alan Jenkins, Diana Der-Hovanessian, Norman Manea, George Szirtes, David Ignatow, Rebecca Seiferle, Raza Ali Hasan, Cleopatra Mathis, Hermine Pinson, Suzanne Gardinier, Tory Dent, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Rika Lesser, Duriel Harris, Laren McClung, Brandon Courtney, Aliki, Tony and Willis Barnstone, and Khaled Mattawa.

Sheep Meadow has published translations of Yehuda Amichai, Paul Celan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Federico García Lorca, Umberto Saba, Miguel Hernandez, Claire Malroux, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Yona Wallach, Pierre Martory, César Vallejo, Iman Mersal, Manuel Bandeira, Luis Cernuda, and Fernando Pessoa. Among our translators are John Ashbery, Marilyn Hacker, Edwin Honig, Estelle Gilson, Richard Zenith, David Tabbat, Reginald Gibbons, Khaled Mattawa, David Slavitt, Ted Hughes, and Yehuda Amichai. 

Wesleyan University Press is now our distributor.