Gunpowder Press, with our new partner, Letras Latinas, invites all Latinx poets to submit to the Alta California Chapbook Prize contest. We are excited to welcome this year’s final judge, Raina León.
In Praise of Late Wonder
In his most personal collection of poems to date, Lee writes with openness about his adoption from Korea in more than 25 new memoir-like prose poems. This expansive collection also includes a section of new poems, as well as highlights from his previous books.
Women in a Golden State
Featuring poems and micro essays by 175 California women writers over 60. Edited by Diana Raab and Chryss Yost, the collection examines the mythology and reality of being a woman of a certain age, especially in youth-obsessed California.
Sad Animal
“A citizen of our perplexed world and its ‘brightest dark revelation,’ Joshua McKinney opens to all that he encounters—whether grief, environmental devastation, love, or even the absurdity of a faculty meeting—with a steadfast attention leavened with humor and, yes, sometimes irreverence.”
—Elizabeth Robinson
What’s Up, Gunpowder?
Happy birthday to poet Michelle Bonczek Evory!
Michelle’s The Ghosts of Lost Animals, bronze medalist in the Independent Publishing Book Awards, was selected by the legendary Thomas Lux for the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Lux wrote “The poems in this book are cool (as in controlled) and very hot (as in fearless). There is a rare precision here (as in observations of […]
Happy Birthday, Catherine!
Gunpowder Press is the proud publisher of 3 Catherine Abbey Hodges collections, including our inaugural Barry Spacks Poetry Prize winner, Instead of Sadness, followed by Raft of Days and Empty Me Full. Free shipping on any or all Catherine Abbey Hodges titles this week!
Other recent announcements:
Barry Spacks Poetry Prize
Cheers to Michele Santamaria
The editors of Gunpowder Press have selected Color Advisory Board by Michele Santamaria as the winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Michele and the finalists!
Dear Empire on Verse Daily
Holly Karapetkova‘s DEAR EMPIRE winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, is available now. Featured on Verse Daily!