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White Dresses

August 26, 2024 pwsbuilder

Jaki Shelton Green

White Dresses by Jaki Shelton Green. Limited Edition. $40

This collectible work of Book Art is a 24 page accordion book printed on archival paper, produced by artists from 3 countries. It was published to coincide with …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: Chapbook, Full-Length Collection, Jaki Shelton Green
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What Is Left

February 12, 2024 Jacar Press 2 Comments

Bunkong Tuon

“With stirring clarity, modesty, and understatement, Tuon shares the feeling of what it must have been like at one end and what words can light up the next mystery. Most of all, he finds a place for himself …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2024 Publications, Bunkong Tuon, Chapbook, Contest Winners
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Pink Moon

Jacar Press

Tina Barr

from Deployed

At lunch, Shelby tells me her mother died when she was twenty-one, father gone. In the living room, a cop, her uncle, and a lawyer, who slid a piece of paper across the coffee table. She …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2024 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Tina Barr, Women Poets
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Pieta

October 9, 2023 Jacar Press

Frank Paino

“Pieta” stands out as a profound collection that delves into the depths of human experience, eliciting emotions that resonate on a universal scale. With poems of careful craft and a brushstroke of clear-cut language “Pieta” paints vibrant and …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2023 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Frank Paino
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Good Morning, Unseen

September 6, 2023 Jacar Press

Catherine Carter

In Catherine Carter’s latest chapbook, the poet considers the world beyond the surface: the lives of microbes, housekeepers, and history; tendrils of magic in both blessings and curses; and the magnetism of love, gin, sorrow, and the dark, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2023 Publications, Catherine Carter, Chapbook, Women Poets
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Radiant City

July 10, 2023 Jacar Press

Jane Craven

“Here the poet sings to ‘the congress of spotted turtles on a log,’ while ‘cats track sunbeams around the house’ and somewhere above us ‘the swirling eye of August, silent at its center, / contains whole flocks of birds.’ Magical things happen …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2023 Publications, Full-Length, Jane Craven, Women Poets
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Myth from the field where the fox runs with its tail on fire

May 2, 2023 Jacar Press

Stella Reed

“Myth from the field where the fox runs with its tail on fire is a book of grit, of faith, of wondrous creaturely light.In this chapbook I found a voice burning with the kind of questions I did …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2023 Publications, Chapbook, Stella Reed, Women Poets
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Stillness in the Land of Speed

November 21, 2022 Jacar Press

Violeta Orozco

“Violeta Orozco offers a deep range of poetic sensibilities inside of plain talk and personal brown body politic. Stillness in the Land of Speed allows us to inhale the Atlantic and wade with the wisdom inside Yemaya’s skirt …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2022 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Latinx Poets, New Voices, Violeta Orozco, Women Poets
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Speak Now This Charm

October 29, 2022 Jacar Press

Deborah Bogen

Available on Kindle.

In Speak Now This Charm, Deborah Bogen creates a mosaic from states of mind we all experience, but are trained to ignore. Or forget. Or devalue. She records what is visible and what is positioned …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2022 Publications, Deborah Bogen, Full-Length Collection, Prose Poetry, Women Poets
A book cover with the title of " the dead everywhere telling us things ".

The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things

June 20, 2022 Jacar Press

Sean Thomas Dougherty

Also available on Kindle.

“Raw and plainspoken, heartbreaking yet humorous, this book is free of even the slightest hint of poetry-posturing. ‘I learned how to take care / of people from taking care of you I thought …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2022 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Sean Thomas Dougherty

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