The editors of Gunpowder Press have selected Color Advisory Board by Michele Santamaria as the winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Congratulations to Michele and the finalists!

Holly Karapetkova‘s DEAR EMPIRE winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, is available now. Featured on Verse Daily!

Our second winner of the 2024 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, Burial Fragments by Keith Ekiss is available now from Gunpowder Press.

Selected by Gary Soto as the winner of the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize, her manuscript In the Cathedral of My Undoing will be available from Gunpowder Press in early 2024. Read the full announcement, including finalists, here.

“In this book, Catherine Esposito Prescott assembles a glowing collection of poems that seam the quotidian with the ethereal; for this poet, they are one and the same. There is a gently probing curiosity to these poems, a faith pieced with wing, hedge, moon, and the tenderness of our own bodies.” —Emma Trelles

Congratulations to Catherine Esposito Prescott! Her manuscript Accidental Garden was selected by Danusha Laméris as the winner of the 2022 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize.