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Writing still matters.

Publishing Full-Length Collections, Chapbooks, Anthologies, and Limited Edition Collectible Book Art. Supporting progressive causes and providing community workshops.

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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
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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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The Opposite of Babel

March 21, 2022 Jacar Press

Tina Kelley

Available on Kindle.

What if we all spoke the same language? What if making up words were an art form? Tina Kelley takes delight in new words that enfold meanings in compact, elegant packages, and she revels in …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2022 Publications, Chapbook, Tina Kelley, Women Poets
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O’Riley

November 17, 2021 Jacar Press

Isabelle Doyle

Available on Kindle.

“…obsessive, inventive, mysterious, lyrical, horrifying, and even funny.”

Jill S. McDonough

from O’Riley

But it was your mouth that moved to meet mine and made the moon slice herself into snow and made strings tie …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Book-Length Poem, Chapbook, Isabelle Doyle, Women Poets
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Dream of the River

October 25, 2021 Jacar Press

Ed. Natalie Eleanor Patterson

Available on Kindle.

These poems are about the people we love and the sometimes cruel, sometimes joyful world we live in. We celebrate the joy and acknowledge, and mourn, the suffering. When we write we reclaim …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Anthology, LGBTQ+ Poets, Natalie Eleanor Patterson
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IN/DESIDERATO

Jacar Press

Jon D. Lee

IN/DESIDERATO is a poetic meditation on what remains of us, and what has been left behind.

As refracted through the battlefields of WWII and the War on Terror, and equally through the deepest ocean depths and the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Book-Length Poem, Full-Length Collection, Jon D Lee

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