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