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Tag: Contest Winners

The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths

October 17, 2013 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

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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

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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
Notes for a Praise Book

Notes for a Praise Book

October 23, 2012 Jacar Press

Jeff Hardin –

Jeff Hardin is extremely sophisticated, mature, and knows exactly what he is doing.

Toi Derricotte, The Undertaker’s Daughter (Pitt Poetry Series), Academy of American Poets’ Board of Chancellors

An “advocate of letting things lean as they must,” …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2012 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Jeff Hardin
Amaranthine Hour

Amaranthine Hour

October 2, 2012 Jacar Press

Chera Hammons –

Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest

This is wonderful work. The poems in Amaranthine Hour are both vibrant and somehow modest at the same time, wonderfully reflective. The speaker has earned maturity and understanding yet realizes …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2012 Publications, Chera Hammons, Contest Winners, Full-Length
Smoke of Her Body

Smoke of Her Body

Jacar Press

Stephanie Levin –

Winner of the Jacar Press Full Length Book Contest

Sensuous and precise, these poems explore the boundaries and transgressions between parents, children, lovers: the ways we confine one another, the ways we break free.

“This one just …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2011 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Stephanie Levin
Bitter Acoustic

Bitter Acoustic

Jacar Press

Sharon Fagan McDermott –

Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest

A woman’s yearning and the inevitable losses of a life take shape, find meaning in the rejuvenating power of the natural world, and the rich textures of language.

“Here …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2011 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Sharon Fagan McDermott

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