Gunpowder Press is honored to have published books by the following poets:
- Fred Arroyo: Alba and Other Songs (2024) Alta California Chapbook Prize Winner
- Kellam Ayres: In the Cathedral of My Undoing (2024) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Aaron Baker: Posthumous Noon (2018) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Christopher Blackman: Three-Day Weekend (2024) Dryden-Vreeland Prize Winner
- Michelle Bonczek Evory: The Ghosts of Lost Animals (2019) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Andrea Carter: Figeater (2025) John Ridland Prize Winner
- David Allen Case: The Tartnation of Faust(2014); Before Traveling to Alabama (2023)
- Nan Cohen: Unfinished City (2017) Dryden Prize Winner
- Todd Copeland: Like All Light (2022) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Meghan Dunn: Curriculum (2021) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Keith Ekiss: Burial Fragments (2025) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Glenn Freeman: Drinking with O’Hara (2020) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Lee Herrick: In Praise of Late Wonder (2024) California Poets Series
- Catherine Abbey Hodges: Instead of Sadness (2015) Barry Spacks Prize Winner; Raft of Days (2017); and Empty Me Full (2024)
- Gabriel Ibarra: On Display (2023) Alta California Chapbook Prize
- Holly Karapetkova: Dear Empire (2025) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Susan Kelly-DeWitt: Gatherer’s Alphabet (2022) California Poets Series; Frangible Operas (2024)
- Joshua McKinney: Sad Animal (2024) John Ridland Poetry Prize
- Sandra McPherson: Speech Crush (2022) California Poets Series
- Florencia Milito: Sor Juana (2023) Alta California Chapbook Prize
- Michelle Moncayo: Here, on this 76L (2025) Alta California Chapbook Prize
- Kurt Olsson: Burning Down Disneyland (2017) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Jim Peterson: Original Face (2015)
- Catherine Esposito Prescott: Accidental Garden (2023) Barry Spacks Prize Winner
- Peg Quinn: Mother Lode
- Nicholas Reiner: Levitations, (2022) Alta California Chapbook Prize
- Amelia Rodriguez: The First Amelia (2024) Alta California Chapbook Prize
- Crystal AC Salas: Grief Logic (2022) Alta California Chapbook Prize
- Dennis Schmitz: Our Music (2022) California Poets Series
- Gary Soto: Downtime (2023) California Poets Series
- Barry Spacks: Shaping Water (2015)
- SM Stubbs: Learning to Drown (2025)
- Chryss Yost: Mouth & Fruit (2014)
Gunpowder Press also publishes anthologies by California poets as part of the Shoreline Voices Project.