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Empty Me Full
“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 to cleave
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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Call for Submissions
Gunpowder Press is accepting poems (including brief prose poems or micro-essays) from women living in California, aged 60 and older, for a forthcoming anthology on women in the Golden State. Our experiences are as unique as our state’s landscapes. California is a state filled with muses, native or newcomer, named after a mythical queen. In an environment […]
Frangible Operas review
“For cover-to-cover excellence and poetic urgency, Frangible Operas may be Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s best-ever poetry collection.” Thank you Poetry Flash and writer Tom Goff for an extraordinary in-depth review of Susan Kelly-DeWitt’s Frangible Operas. Read the whole review in the October issue of Poetry Flash.
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