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Poets

Gunpowder Press is honored to have published books by the following poets:

  • Fred Arroyo (Alba and Other Songs, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2024)
  • Kellam Ayres (In the Cathedral of My Undoing (2024), Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Aaron Baker (Posthumous Noon, 2018 Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Christopher Blackman (Three-Day Weekend (2024), Dryden-Vreeland Prize Winner)
  • Michelle Bonczek Evory (The Ghosts of Lost Animals, 2019 Spacks 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, 2021 Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Meghan Dunn (Curriculum, 2020 Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Keith Ekiss (Burial Fragments, 2024 Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Glenn Freeman (Drinking with O’Hara, 2019 Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Lee Herrick (In Praise of Late Wonder, California Poets Series, 2024)
  • Catherine Abbey Hodges (Instead of Sadness, 2015 Spacks Prize Winner; Raft of Days, 2017; and Empty Me Full, 2024)
  • Gabriel Ibarra (On Display, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2023)
  • Holly Karapetkova (Dear Empire, 2024 Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Susan Kelly-DeWitt (Gatherer’s Alphabet, California Poets Series, 2022; Frangible Operas (2024)
  • Joshua McKinney (Sad Animal, John Ridland Poetry Prize, 2024)
  • Sandra McPherson (Speech Crush, California Poets Series, 2022)
  • Florencia Milito (Sor Juana, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2023)
  • Kurt Olsson (Burning Down Disneyland, 2017 Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Jim Peterson (Original Face, 2015)
  • Catherine Esposito Prescott (Accidental Garden, 2022 Spacks Prize Winner)
  • Peg Quinn (Mother Lode, 2020 Editors’ Choice)
  • Nicholas Reiner (Levitations, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2022)
  • Amelia Rodriguez (The First Amelia, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2024)
  • Crystal AC Salas (Grief Logic, Alta California Chapbook Prize, 2022)
  • Dennis Schmitz (Our Music, California Poets Series, 2022)
  • Gary Soto (Downtime, California Poets Series, 2023)
  • 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.

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