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

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This Document Should Be Retained as Evidence of Your Journey

June 29, 2021 Jacar Press

Colleen Coyne

“THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD BE RETAINED AS EVIDENCE OF YOUR JOURNEY begins with a strange kind of urgency, ‘When the dead speak, we have to listen.’ I’m compelled to lean in, listen, get a closer look into this book’s …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Chapbook, Colleen Coyne, Women Poets
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Earth of Inedible Things

March 22, 2021 Jacar Press

Joshua Martin

Available in Kindle too.

“At times an homage to icons of western culture such as Rubens and Rembrandt, and at other times the honest tracing of workers leaving the poverty of small farmers for the grinding struggle of …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Joshua Martin
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If It Heals At All

November 23, 2020 Jacar Press

Ali Black

Available on Kindle.

“If It Heals At All defines personal moments that conjure reincarnations of straightforward sensibility with language that names, ‘my black is a heartbeat.’ Ali Black dares metaphors to not get it twisted as she creates …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2020 Publications, Ali Black, Black Poets, Chapbook, New Voices, Women Poets
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Zombies at the Disco

Jacar Press

Alison Stone

OUT OF STOCK. Available on Kindle.

Alison Stone brings us contemporary ghazals that maintain the integrity of the original form while expanding the subject matter to include everything from pets to politics. Often funny, sometimes achingly sad, these …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Alison Stone, Full-Length Collection, Ghazals, Women Poets
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What I Forgot to Say

May 22, 2020 Jacar Press

Julie Suk

OUT OF STOCK. Available on Kindle.

Julie Suk is a prize-winning American poet from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born Julie Madison Gaillard in 1924 in Mobile, Alabama, and attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama. Her …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Chapbook, Julie Suk, Women Poets
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In These States

April 20, 2020 Jacar Press

T.R. Hummer

In These States is a partial road atlas of the contemporary U.S. soul.

Each of us has various existences, only a few of them coinciding precisely with the boundaries of our neighborhoods. The poems in this book are …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Chapbook, T. R. Hummer
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The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening

March 28, 2020 Jacar Press

Simon Baena

Available on Kindle.

The Magnum Opus Persists in the Evening is a lyrical lament that evokes the night as the abode of ruins, of loss, and of History-the realm between silence and noise which these poems speak through …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Chapbook, Simon Baena
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Nursewifery

December 2, 2019 Jacar Press

 

Ruth Williams

Wife, mother, nurse-these words invoke the vision of a woman giving of herself to sustain another with love, tenderness, care. Written in the voice of a military nurse, Nursewifery speaks from the perspective of a woman whose …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Ruth Williams, Women Poets
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Someone You Love Is Still Alive

November 17, 2019 Jacar Press

Ephraim Scott Sommers

“Someone You Love is Still Alive compels the reader to remember that they are, after all, still human. Despite a fractured world, a challenging experience of what it is to be a member of a global society, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Ephraim Scott Sommers, Full-Length Collection
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Arc

September 22, 2019 Jacar Press

Eavan Boland

Arc is a curated chapbook of poems representing the career of Eavan Boland, Ireland’s most important and internationally acclaimed contemporary poet. A work of collectible book art, Arc is printed in a limited edition of 200 copies featuring …

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Posted in: Books, Greatest Hits Series Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Eavan Boland, Greatest Hits, Women Poets

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