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)
Spacks Prize Reading!
April 25, 2021 • 5:00-6:15 PDT
Save the date! Thanks to the post-geography wonder of Zoom, we will be celebrating our most recent Spacks Prize winner, Meghan Dunn for her manuscript Curriculum (2020 winner, selected by Jessica Jacobs), with ALL PREVIOUS SPACKS PRIZE WINNERS, including: Catherine Abbey Hodges for Instead of Sadness (2015 winner, selected by Dan Gerber) Kurt Olsson for […]
New Shoreline Voices Project anthology for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
To Give Life a Shape: Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is the third Shoreline Voices Project anthology published by Gunpowder Press. Edited by David Starkey and Chryss Yost, To Give Life a Shape will ship early October 2017. SBMA Educational Director (and lifelong friend of poetry) Patsy Hicks says We hope this […]
Santa Barbara Poetry Series (Spring 2017)
Introducing the 7th Santa Barbara Poet Laureate The new Poet Laureate will be announced at the beginning of April. We look forward to the first feature reading by our new PL! Featured Poet Nan Cohen’s new book is Unfinished City, which was awarded the inaugural Michael Dryden Poetry Prize by Gunpowder Press. She also the […]
Santa Barbara Poetry Series (Winter 2017)
We are excited to partner with the Santa Barbara Public Library to present the Santa Barbara Poetry Series at the Faulkner Gallery at 7:00 pm, on Sunday, February 19. The Series brings together an out-of-town poet, a local poet, and a student poet for an inspiring evening of powerful language. Our gratitude to Nancy Gifford […]
Santa Barbara Poetry Series (Fall 2016)
Gunpowder Press is proud to be the current home of the long-running Santa Barbara Poetry Series. The Series is hosted by Chryss Yost and George Yatchisin. The first reading of the 2016-17 season will feature David Oliveira, George Singer, and Marisa Gutierrez. The reading will be on Sunday, November 6, in the Cielito Room of Viva Modern […]