Dryad Press is the name of a forty year old independent literary press based in the Takoma Park, MD and San Francisco, CA. Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland. The population was 17299 at the 2000 census The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city
The press was founded in the November 1967 by Merrill Leffler and Neil Lehrman with the first issue of Dryad. The literary magazine began as a quarterly and then evolved into a more irregular publication.
They began publishing books with Rod Jellema's Something Tugging the Line followed by many others, among them, books by James Wright, Roland Flint, Myra Sklarew, Linda Pastan, Paul Zimmer, Philip Jason, Roger Aplon, Barbara Lefcowitz, Ann Darr, Rodger Kamenetz, and Herman Taube. James or Jim Wright is the name of James Wright (governor (1715-1785 British colonial governor of the U Roland Henry Flint ( February 27, 1934 - January 2, 2001) was an American poet and professor of English at Myra Sklarew (born 1934 American poet former president of the artist community Yaddo and currently Professor of Literature at American Linda Pastan is an American Poet of Jewish background She was born in the Bronx in 1932. Rodger Kamenetz (born 1950 is an American poet and author He was born in Baltimore and educated at Yale, Stanford and Johns Hopkins University
In 1976 the press published a book edited by Marguretite Harris, which included poems by Robert Lowell, William Meredith, Peter Davison, David Ignatow, Ted Kooser, William Matthews, and Ed Zahniser. Robert Lowell (March 1 1917&ndashSeptember 12 1977 born Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV, was an American Poet whose works confessional in nature William Meredith may refer to Billy Meredith (1874-1958 British international winger oft described as "football's first superstar" Peter Davison (born Peter Moffett 13 April 1951 is an English Actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of David Ignatow ( February 7, 1914 -- November 17, 1997) was a noted American poet Ted Kooser (b April 25, 1939, Ames Iowa) is an American Poet who was the thirteenth Poet Laureate of the United States William Matthews may be William Matthews (baseball player William Matthews (composer William Matthews (editor In November of 2007 the press released Reed Whittemore's memoir Against the Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet. Edward Reed Whittemore Jr (born September 11 1919 is an American poet, biographer critic literary journalist and college professor
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