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Happy birthday to poet Michelle Bonczek Evory!

September 30, 2025

Michelle’s The Ghosts of Lost Animals, bronze medalist in the Independent Publishing Book Awards, was selected by the legendary Thomas Lux for the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Lux wrote “The poems in this book are cool (as in controlled) and very hot (as in fearless). There is a rare precision here (as in observations of […]

Filed Under: Announcements, Cheers

Happy Birthday, Catherine!

July 26, 2025

Gunpowder Press is the proud publisher of 3 Catherine Abbey Hodges collections, including our inaugural Barry Spacks Poetry Prize winner, Instead of Sadness, followed by Raft of Days and Empty Me Full. Free shipping on any or all Catherine Abbey Hodges titles this week!

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Here, on this 76L

June 18, 2025

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!

Filed Under: Featured, New Release

Poetry, Pastels & Peg

May 26, 2025

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

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Call for Poems: Santa Barbara Food & Drink

May 13, 2025

Gunpowder Press is inviting  poems inspired by or celebrating Santa Barbara County food, drinks, restaurants, and agriculture, to be edited by Santa Barbara Poet Laureate George Yatchisin. Open to poets living in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo counties. Blessed by a year-round temperate climate, geography nestling it between the Pacific and the Santa […]

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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. In stock and available now from Gunpowder Press, full list of upcoming readings here.

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