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Delicate Thefts

Delicate Thefts

April 5, 2015 Jacar Press

Debra Kaufman –

“If you have any doubt that Debra Kaufman is one of our best contemporary American poets, then read this collection.”

Kathryn Stripling Byer, Descent, Coming to Rest, Catching Light and 3 others from LSU Press 

“Which universe …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Debra Kaufman, Full-Length
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

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
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
The Next Moment

The Next Moment

Jacar Press

Debra Kaufman –

“Kaufman’s poems trace a journey of passion, emotional turmoil, loss and reconfiguration, sometimes in natural settings of almost mystical beauty. She can be exact: ‘the heron hushed and studious…’ Or lyrical: ‘…leaves swoop and skirt/the chilling wind …

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