We asked Catherine Abbey Hodges, winner of the 2015 Spacks Prize for her book Instead of Sadness and author of the forthcoming Raft of Days, what books she’s enjoying now: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, Marie Howe (W.W. Norton, 2009) I think of Marie Howe as a modern mystic, and her unpretentious poems as lenses […]
What Gunpowder Poets Are Reading
We asked Kurt Olsson, winner of the 2016 Spacks Prize for his book Burning Down Disneyland, what books he’s enjoying now: Garden Time, W.S. Merwin (Copper Canyon Press)—the poems tend to strike the same chord, but what a wonderful chord. You Never Know, Ron Padgett (Coffee House Press)—Padgett does what he does as effortlessly as […]