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!
Welcome, Sad Animal!
The first winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize, Sad Animal by Joshua McKinney, is available through online retailers, including Bookshop.org, Amazon, and BN.com.
New from Susan Kelly-DeWitt, Frangible Operas
Gunpowder Press is honored to publish Frangible Operas by Susan Kelly-DeWitt, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her 2022 collection, Gatherers’ Alphabet, was the inaugural title in the Gunpowder Press California Poets Series. Available at Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere.
New! 3-Day Weekend
“Christopher Blackman is alert to the ironies that link the comedy and tragedy of existence, yet his poems are never arch or brittle. […]By welcoming us with lucidity and candor into the particulars of someone else’s life; they end by handing us back our own lives, transformed.”—Nan Cohen, Final Judge
In the Cathedral of My Undoing
Winner of the 2023 Spacks Prize, Kellam Ayres’ In the Cathedral of My Undoing is now available for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere.
New from the Shoreline Voices Project
Part of the Shoreline Voices series, showcasing poets from California’s Central Coast, Out of the Ground is a collection of poems inspired by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the flora of our region. Out of the Ground includes poems by more than forty poets from Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Kern, and Ventura counties, including […]