Congratulations to Jim Peterson! His poem “Second Sight” (below) was selected for Special Mention in Poetry in the 2016 Pushcart Prize anthology. “Second Sight” is included in Original Face (Gunpowder Press, 2015) and originally appeared in The Greensboro Review. Second Sight Into this walking I retired a year ago. A fist of cumulus gathers up […]
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 […]
2016 Spacks Prize Announcement
Kurt Olsson’s book Burning Down Disneyland was selected by final judge Thomas Lux as the winner of the 2016 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Of this work, Thomas Lux said I love the title of this book (though I read it as metaphor!) and I love the innovative mischief of its poems. Let it be known: […]
Solving the Problem
Blossoms do their pretty thing: stones stone, bugs bug, trees testify. But somehow we tend to serve two masters. So which wears the mask that hides the other? * To teach “Already it is Perfect” the Master simply moves his teacup. His students understand: breath out, breath in. * Many, in plenty, die of hunger; […]
2016 Spacks Prize Now Open!
We are thrilled that poet Thomas Lux has agreed to be the final judge for the 2016 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Gunpowder Press received 100 submissions for the 2015 prize and was very happy to release the winning book, Catherine Abbey Hodges’ Instead of Sadness (selected by Dan Gerber), in December 2015. Submissions are being […]
Gunpowder Interview Extravaganza!
Thank you, to Lisa Osborn, for her terrific interview with GP publisher and co-editor David Starkey and co-editor Chryss Yost, with readings from Rare Feathers poets Susan Chiavelli, George Yatchisin, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Gabriella Klein, Mary Brown, Christine Penko, Emma Trelles, Enid Osborn, and Melinda Palacio. Hear it here. We’re very honored to be profiled […]
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