Women in a Golden State includes poems by 175 California poets, our way to recognize 175 years of California Statehood. Officially arriving on Mothers’ Day, the collection is in stock and available now from Gunpowder Press.
In Praise of Late Wonder
By Lee Herrick
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.
Dear Empire
“The poems of Holly Karapetkova do not ask for forgiveness…Karapetkova writes with a contagious honesty. Her poems describe an American mirror we should not turn away from.”–E. Ethelbert Miller
Burial Fragments
By Keith Ekiss
“San Francisco, the millennial city: Mission and Market, bars and cafes, hills, bridges, and ocean. To read the pages of Keith Ekiss’s Burial Fragments is to follow a gorgeous thread of urban encounters until you reach the center of the anxious, frenetic, marvelous, and random maze that is life and fatherhood at the edge of America and the 21st century.”–Maria Hummel
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Call for Poems: Santa Barbara Food & Drink
Gunpowder Press is accepting poems from Santa Barbara County residents of any age, for a forthcoming anthology celebrating local food, drinks, restaurants, and agriculture. The collection will be edited by Santa Barbara Poet Laureate George Yatchisin. Blessed by a year-round temperate climate, geography nestling it between the Pacific and the Santa Ynez Mountains, an unusual […]

Happy Anniversary, California!
Women in a Golden State includes poems by 175 California poets, our way to recognize 175 years of California Statehood. Officially arriving on Mothers’ Day, the collection is in stock and available now from Gunpowder Press.
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Barry Spacks Poetry Prize

Dear Empire on Verse Daily
Holly Karapetkova‘s DEAR EMPIRE winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, is available now. Featured on Verse Daily!

Burial Fragments by Keith Ekiss
Our second winner of the 2024 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Burial Fragments by Keith Ekiss is available now from Gunpowder Press.