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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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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

Dear Empire

By Holly Karapetkova

“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

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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?

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.

Other recent announcements:

  • Congratulations, Andrea Carter!
  • Gunpowder Press at #AWP LA
  • Alta California Chapbook Winner!

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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