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Here, on this 76L

Michelle Moncayo’s Alta California Chapbook Prize winning chapbook, Here, on this 76L, is now available in a bilingual edition from Gunpowder Press. Congratulations, Michelle!

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Women in a Golden State

By Chryss Yost and Diana Raab

Featuring poems and micro essays by 175 California women writers over 60. Edited by Diana Raab and Chryss Yost, the collection examines the mythology and reality of being a woman of a certain age, especially in youth-obsessed California.

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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.

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Spacks Prize

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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What’s Up, Gunpowder?

Here, on this 76L

Michelle Moncayo’s Alta California Chapbook Prize winning chapbook, Here, on this 76L, is now available in a bilingual edition from Gunpowder Press. Congratulations, Michelle!

Poetry, Pastels & Peg

Thank you, Peg Quinn, multimedia artist extraordinaire, for bringing poetry to Santa Barbara’s I Madonnari festival, an important annual event for the Children’s Creative Project. Peg envisioned and created the beautiful image below in pastels on asphalt right in front of the Santa Barbara Mission. Peg’s book, Mother Lode, is available from Gunpowder Press

Other recent announcements:

  • Call for Poems: Santa Barbara Food & Drink
  • Congratulations, Andrea Carter!
  • Gunpowder Press at #AWP LA

Past announcements

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.

More Spacks Prize news

  • Congratulations, Kellam Ayres!
  • Accidental Garden
  • Catherine Esposito Prescott selected as winner of the 2022 Spacks Prize

Past Spacks Prize announcements

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