A poem from Frangible Operas was featured on Vox Populi on one of the last days of the year. Thank you, Susan Kelly-DeWitt and Vox Populi! Read it here. Frangible Operas is available from Gunpowder Press and elsewhere.
Three-Day Weekend on Poetry Daily
On Christmas Eve, Poetry Daily features Christopher Blackman’s poem “Travelers Insurance Presents: The Triumph of Man” from Three-Day Weekend. Thank you, Poetry Daily, and congratulations, Chris!
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.
Welcome, Sad Animal!
The inaugural winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize is Joshua McKinney of Sacramento, California, selected by the editors of Gunpowder Press for his manuscript Sad Animal. Welcome, Joshua!
Happy New Year!
To celebrate, we’re sharing “January One,” a poem by our Dryden-Vreeland winner, Christopher Blackman. His prize-winning book, Three-Day Weekend, is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press. This poem was first published in Rust & Moth (Spring 2021) and is reprinted with the poet’s permission:
Celebrating David Case
Happy birthday to our founding spirit! While the name Gunpowder Press was inspired by Saint Barbara (the patron saint of our city and of gunpowder), our work is inspired by David Case, the poet who motivated Publisher David Starkey to start creating books ten years ago. Starkey includes Gunpowder Press’s origin story in his foreword […]