Gunpowder Press

Poetry

New! Learning to Drown

SM Stubbs was selected as a finalist for the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize and we just couldn’t pass up the chance to publish his collection: “…the poems in Learning to Drown shine an incandescent and intimate light upon memory, childhood, and survival in the aftermath of trauma.” Shipping now from Gunpowder Press. Also available via Amazon, BN.com, […]

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 […]

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.

Empty Me Full

The latest collection from Catherine Abbey Hodges is available now. Empty Me Full is an invitation to intimate conversation with a wise and affectionate seeker. Here is a wit-laced and vulnerable wondering. In poems that turn grief to awe and sadness to wonder, the poet celebrates our stunning, imperfect lives.   —Barbara Rockman, author of […]