The latest collection from Catherine Abbey Hodges is available now. Empty Me Full is an invitation to intimate conversation with a wise and affectionate seeker. Here is a wit-laced and vulnerable wondering. In poems that turn grief to awe and sadness to wonder, the poet celebrates our stunning, imperfect lives. —Barbara Rockman, author of […]
Empty Me Full
Catherine Abbey Hodges is well-known to Gunpowder Press readers as winner of the inaugural Barry Spacks Poetry Prize for her first book, Instead of Sadness (2015), and as the author of Raft of Days (2017). Her newest collection, Empty Me Full, will be released on October 1, 2024. Available now for preorder.
Frangible Operas
“‘Tonight the bells of the flowers ring out,’ begins the title poem in Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s exquisite new collection, and you will want to stop and listen. Frangible Operas is a book of honed astonishments. I love the way each line pays attention and makes you attend, the way each poem lets you breathe before its ending takes away your breath.”
— Susan Cohen
Sad Animal
Joshua McKinney’s Sad Animal is the first winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize. “Joshua McKinney is a visionary of the intervals and of the interstices. His eye magnifies those last, fleeting splendors of our perishing earth and perishing republic with genuine love and with the grace notes of regret. In Sad Animal, clarity becomes […]
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Bilingual Chapbook Prize
The phenomenal Richard Blanco will be our final judge for the next Alta California Chapbook Prize!
Welcome, Sad Animal!
The first winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize, Sad Animal by Joshua McKinney, is available through online retailers, including Bookshop.org, Amazon, and BN.com.
Other recent announcements:
Barry Spacks Poetry Prize
Congratulations, Kellam Ayres!
Selected by Gary Soto as the winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, her manuscript In the Cathedral of My Undoing will be available from Gunpowder Press in early 2024. Read the full announcement, including finalists, here.
Accidental Garden
“In this book, Catherine Esposito Prescott assembles a glowing collection of poems that seam the quotidian with the ethereal; for this poet, they are one and the same. There is a gently probing curiosity to these poems, a faith pieced with wing, hedge, moon, and the tenderness of our own bodies.” —Emma Trelles