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Category: Books

Music from Small Towns

Music from Small Towns

October 18, 2014 Jacar Press

Al Maginnes –

“What I love about these poems is how they manage to be so eloquent without being pretentious. I’m also drawn to the way Maginnes juxtaposes fire and its quick losses with fire’s complement, slow vanishing. Not all …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Al Maginnes, Contest Winners, Full-Length
Widow Poems

Widow Poems – Sorry, Sold Out

August 28, 2014 Jacar Press

Betty Adcock –

These deeply moving poems about grief, its aftermath, and learning to embrace the world again rank with Betty Adcock’s finest work.

A new book of poetry by the author of six award-winning collections from LSU Press.

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Betty Adcock, Chapbook
Feeding the Light

Feeding the Light

July 16, 2014 Jacar Press

Jaki Shelton Green – Sorry, Sold Out. Available on Kindle.

“Rooted in hypnagogic logic and deeply seated in the tradition of Jayne Cortez, Quincy Troupe and Ntozake Shange, Jaki Shelton Green’s verse narratives pay homage to the orphic ethos of …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Chapbook, Jaki Shelton Green
Steal Away

Steal Away

Jacar Press

Shelby Stephenson –

An intimate, tender and lyrical chapbook that looks back at a childhood, where friendship, family, and slavery intersect. These poems ponder the conflicted emotions, from joy to sorrow, that come from meditating on one’s legacy.

Shelby Stephenson’s Family Matters: Homage …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Chapbook, Shelby Stephenson

What Matters

October 17, 2013 Jacar Press

Edited: Kaufman, Krawiec, Levin –

Poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, MacArthur Foundation Genius grantee Thylias Moss, National Book Award finalist Alan Shapiro, Yale Series of Younger Poets awardee Fady Joudah, and 90+ other writers. Questions, answers, meditations,and explorations …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Anthology, Debra Kaufman, Richard Krawiec, Stephanie Levin

The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths

Jacar Press

Sandy Longhorn –

Winner of the Jacar Press 2013 Full Length Book Contest

These sly, beautifully crafted poems inhabit and haunt the heart-land. Sandy Longhorn is a poet with the gifts of observation and imagination. An original voice with a …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Sandy Longhorn

The Garden of Persuasions

Jacar Press

Maura High –

Winner of the Jacar Press 2013 Chapbook Contest

The Garden of Persuasions speaks in a low voice you must quiet yourself to hear. “I have left some things out of this picture,” it says in one of …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Maura High

Reckoning

Jacar Press

Edison Jennings –

Tough words from Edison Jennings on how to survive “the coming of claws and snapping teeth,” and how to reckon our course through “the plenty of loss.” No whine in this voice, no plead for succor–these hard-hitting …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Edison Jennings

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Edited: Beary, Moore – Sorry, sold out.

Edited by Roberta Beary and Lenard D. Moore, this collection highlights 14 haiku writers who chose their ‘best poems’, those they believed would last over time.  The writers were selected in a vote …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Anthology, Lenard D. Moore, Roberta Beary

Sonnets of the Cross – Collector's Edition

February 27, 2013 Jacar Press

Joseph Bathanti – Sorry, sold out.

A hand-bound, limited edition chapbook, signed and numbered by NC Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti.  Original pen and ink art works by Tasmanian artist and poet Ron Moss, created exclusively for this project.

The Sonnets …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Book Art, Collectible, Joseph Bathanti

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