Winner of the 2023 Spacks Prize, Kellam Ayres’ In the Cathedral of My Undoing is now available for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere.
Out of the Ground: Poems Inspired by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Part of the Shoreline Voices series, showcasing poets from California’s Central Coast, Out of the Ground is inspired by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the flora of our region. Out of the Ground includes poems by more than forty poets from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, and Ventura counties, including Carmen Alexander, Lori Anaya, […]
Downtime
By Gary Soto
Part of the California Poets Series, Downtime features new poems by Gary Soto. He describes the process for writing this collection: The Monday when Daylight Savings, 2021, kicked in, I was left in the dark. The morning light appeared in our eastern window, then was gone by the time I finished washing the lunchtime dishes. […]
Before Traveling to Alabama
Before Traveling to Alabama is the final collection of poems by David Allen Case, featuring a forward by Gunpowder Press publisher David Starkey. David Allen Case was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on July 15, 1961. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. in English from UCLA. From the mid-80’s through […]
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In the Cathedral of My Undoing
Winner of the 2023 Spacks Prize, Kellam Ayres’ In the Cathedral of My Undoing is now available for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere.
Happy New Year!
To celebrate, we’re sharing “January One,” a poem by our Dryden-Vreeland winner, Christopher Blackman. His prize-winning book, Three-Day Weekend, is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. This poem was first published in Rust & Moth (Spring 2021) and is reprinted with the poet’s permission:
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