To Give Life a Shape: Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is the third Shoreline Voices Project anthology published by Gunpowder Press. Edited by David Starkey and Chryss Yost, To Give Life a Shape will ship early October 2017. SBMA Educational Director (and lifelong friend of poetry) Patsy Hicks says We hope this […]
2017 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize winner announced
Gunpowder Press is excited to announce that judge Jane Hirshfield has selected Aaron Baker’s Posthumous Noon as the winner of the 2017 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. The editors are grateful to Jane Hirshfield for being our final judge and for her constant outspoken advocacy of poetry and its power. There were 195 manuscripts submitted for […]
New Shoreline Voices Project: Celebrating the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
As part of the Shoreline Voices Project, Gunpowder Press invites poets from Santa Barbara or adjacent counties (Ventura, San Luis Obispo, or Kern) to send up to 3 poems inspired by works in the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for consideration for an anthology of poems to be published this fall. […]
San Francisco Chronicle features Nan Cohen
In his “State Lines: California Poetry” column, David Roderick says “Nan Cohen [Unfinished City] has a cinematographer’s talent for framing an image.” We agree. Read more here.
7 Reasons to enter your book for the Spacks Prize
We understand there are a LOT of poetry book contests out there and Gunpowder Press is a young press (founded in 2014). This is our 3rd year hosting the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. We are very proud of what we’ve accomplished with our poets so far, so here are a few reasons to submit your work […]
What Gunpowder Poets Are Reading
We asked Catherine Abbey Hodges, winner of the 2015 Spacks Prize for her book Instead of Sadness and author of the forthcoming Raft of Days, what books she’s enjoying now: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, Marie Howe (W.W. Norton, 2009) I think of Marie Howe as a modern mystic, and her unpretentious poems as lenses […]
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