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Call for Poems: Santa Barbara Food & Drink

May 13, 2025

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 […]

Filed Under: Announcements, Shoreline Voices Project

Happy Anniversary, California!

April 24, 2025

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.

Filed Under: Featured, New Release

Congratulations, Andrea Carter!

April 10, 2025

Our winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize is Andrea Carter. Her manuscript, Figeater, was selected by the editors of Gunpowder Press from over 150 submissions. View the full details and list of additional finalists here.

Filed Under: Announcements, John Ridland Poetry Prize

Gunpowder Press at #AWP LA

March 19, 2025

Come find us at the Los Angeles Convention Center March 27-29! Gunpowder Press will be at Booth #1152. We’ll have advance copies of our brand new sampler, PECULIAR FIRE, and Gunpowder Poets with books to sign (full schedule here)

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Dear Empire on Verse Daily

March 11, 2025

Holly Karapetkova‘s DEAR EMPIRE winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, is available now. Featured on Verse Daily!

Filed Under: Barry Spacks Poetry Prize

Burial Fragments by Keith Ekiss

February 14, 2025

Our second winner of the 2024 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Burial Fragments by Keith Ekiss is available now from Gunpowder Press.

Filed Under: Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Featured

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