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Lynne Thompson to serve as final judge for the 2021 Spacks Prize

January 6, 2021

Lynne Thompson to serve as final judge for the 2021 Spacks Prize

The editors are honored that Lynne Thompson has agreed to serve as the final judge for the 2021 Spacks Prize. The Spacks Prize is awarded annually to a full-length manuscript of original poems. Previous judges include Dan Gerber, Thomas Lux, Jane Hirshfield, Lee Herrick, Stephen Dunn, and Jessica Jacobs. We are grateful for their generous […]

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2020 Spacks Prize Winner: Meghan Dunn

September 2, 2020

2020 Spacks Prize Winner: Meghan Dunn

Final Judge Jessica Jacobs has selected Curriculum, by Meghan Dunn of Brooklyn, New York, as the winner of the 2020 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. The editors of Gunpowder Press are excited to publish this collection of timely and carefully-crafted poems. Read the judge’s response:

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Glenn Freeman selected by Stephen Dunn for 2019 Spacks Prize

October 17, 2019

Gunpowder Press welcomed esteemed Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Dunn as final judge for the 2019 Spacks Prize. This year’s winner, chosen by Stephen Dunn, is Glenn Freeman of Cornell, Iowa, for his collection Drinking with O’Hara. The other finalists, in alphabetical order by poet’s last name: These Waters, John Belk Rosetta, by Karina Borowicz Luminous Body, Glittering Ash, by C.W. Emerson […]

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Poet Stephen Dunn to judge the 2019 Spacks Prize

March 5, 2019

Poet Stephen Dunn to judge the 2019 Spacks Prize

Gunpowder Press welcomes esteemed Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Dunn as final judge for the 2019 Spacks Prize. The Spacks Prize is awarded annually for a full-length collection of poetry. Dunn is the author of over a dozen books of poetry, including the National Poetry Series Prize-winning Local Time (1986), Landscape at the End of the Century (1991), Loosestrife (1996), Different Hours (2000), which won the Pulitzer Prize, What […]

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2018 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize Winner Announced

October 17, 2018

2018 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize Winner Announced

Gunpowder Press is thrilled to announce that Michelle Bonczek Evory is the winner of the fourth annual Barry Spacks Poetry Prize for her book, The Ghosts of Lost Animals. Final judge Lee Herrick says of this book: Michelle Bonczek Evory’s The Ghosts of Lost Animals is full of risk, reward, gravity, invention, and surprise. There is a hunger […]

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2018 Spacks Prize Open Now

January 1, 2018

2018 Spacks Prize Open Now

We are honored that Lee Herrick will be the final judge for the 2018 Spacks Prize. Lee Herrick is the author of Gardening Secrets of the Dead and This Many Miles from Desire, and a third book, Scar and Flower, is forthcoming from Word Poetry Press in 2019. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, anthologies, and college textbooks, including The Bloomsbury Review, Columbia […]

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  • Mother Lode cover Mother Lode: Poems by Peg Quinn $15.00
  • Pick 3 Poetry Pack $30.00
  • Drinking with O'Hara: Poems by Glenn Freeman $15.00
  • The Ghosts of Lost Animals: Poems by Michelle Bonczek Evory $15.00
  • Posthumous Noon: Poems by Aaron Baker $15.00
  • To Give Life a Shape: Poems Inspired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art $15.00
  • Raft of Days: Poems by Catherine Abbey Hodges $15.00
  • Unfinished City, Poems by Nan Cohen Unfinished City: Poems by Nan Cohen $15.00
  • Burning Down Disneyland Burning Down Disneyland: Poems by Kurt Olsson $15.00
  • What Breathes Us What Breathes Us: Santa Barbara Poets Laureate 2005-2015 $15.00
  • Instead of Sadness Instead of Sadness: Poems by Catherine Abbey Hodges $15.00
  • Rare Feathers: Poems of Birds & Art Rare Feathers: Poems on Birds & Art $15.00

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