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Poetry

Poetry, Pastels & Peg

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

Alta California Chapbook Winner!

The winner of this year’s Alta California Chapbook contest is Michelle Moncayo for her chapbook, Here on this 76L, forthcoming from Gunpowder Press! From our distinguished final judge Richard Blanco: “Michelle Moncayo’s poems burn strong with authentic feeling and personal icons swirling with wings, food as a form of prayer, and the poignant music of […]

Catherine Abbey Hodges on Verse Daily

Thank you, Verse Daily, for sharing Catherine Abbey Hodges’ “How It Goes” from Empty Me Full—and thank you, Catherine, for your luscious poems: “What else don’t we know? Almosteverything.” Empty Me Full is available directly from Gunpowder Press, or anywhere you purchase poetry books.

Call for Submissions

Gunpowder Press is accepting poems (including brief prose poems or micro-essays) from women living in California, aged 60 and older, for a forthcoming anthology on women in the Golden State. Our experiences are as unique as our state’s landscapes. California is a state filled with muses, native or newcomer, named after a mythical queen. In an environment […]

Christopher Blackman Wins Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize

Final judge Nan Cohen has selected the winner of the Dryden-Vreeland Book Prize: Christopher Blackman for his manuscript Three-Day Weekend. His book will be forthcoming from Gunpowder Press in 2024. Seven other poets were selected as finalists: Christopher Blackman is a poet from Columbus, Ohio. His poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, DIAGRAM, Cleaver Magazine, Southeast Review, Booth, and Epiphany, among […]

Congratulations, Emma Trelles!

Academy of American Poets has recognized as a Poet Laureate Fellow Emma Trelles, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate Fellow! Emma is the series editor for Gunpowder’s Alta California Chapbook Prize. Gunpowder is committed to bringing the words of Latinx poets to as wide an audience as possible. Thank you to the Academy of American Poets for […]