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Welcome, Figeater!

Andrea Carter’s book is winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize. Donna Spruijt-Metz writes: “Figeater is a blistering, deeply felt tribute to Carter’s ability to open a coherent and difficult world with language both lush and sharp. It is beautifully wrought.”

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Happy birthday to poet Michelle Bonczek Evory!

Michelle’s The Ghosts of Lost Animals, bronze medalist in the Independent Publishing Book Awards, was selected by the legendary Thomas Lux for the Barry Spacks Poetry Prize. Lux wrote “The poems in this book are cool (as in controlled) and very hot (as in fearless). There is a rare precision here (as in observations of […]

Catherine Abbey Hodges and book covers

Happy Birthday, Catherine!

Gunpowder Press is the proud publisher of 3 Catherine Abbey Hodges collections, including our inaugural Barry Spacks Poetry Prize winner, Instead of Sadness, followed by Raft of Days and Empty Me Full. Free shipping on any or all Catherine Abbey Hodges titles this week!

Other recent announcements:

  • Here, on this 76L
  • Poetry, Pastels & Peg
  • Call for Poems: Santa Barbara Food & Drink

Past announcements

Barry Spacks Poetry Prize

Cheers to Michele Santamaria

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!

Dear Empire on Verse Daily

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

More Spacks Prize news

  • Burial Fragments by Keith Ekiss
  • Congratulations, Kellam Ayres!
  • Accidental Garden

Past Spacks Prize announcements

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