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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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Yes, We Be

February 5, 2018 Jacar Press

Patrick Howell

OUT OF STOCK.

Yes, We Be is an integrated-design poetry book that connects with the Black Arts Movement, Harlem Renaissance, and Afro-Futurism. Proceeds will benefit Black Lives Matter, SistaWRITE, and COR AME community programs.

“Patrick Howell’s Yes We …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2018 Publications, Black Poets, Book Art, Full-Length Collection, New Voices, Patrick Howell
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Anonymous

January 12, 2018 Jacar Press

Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

Available on Kindle.

“Anonymous follows vulnerable bodies impelled to service-for work, lust, purgation, and song. Even that last knells from halls where ‘the applause is from the whips.’ This, the caustic art of Monique-Adelle’s often brutal debut: …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2018 Publications, Black Poets, Full-Length Collection, Monique-Adelle Callahan D., New Voices, Women Poets
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Dazzle

Jacar Press

Alison Stone

“With a jeweler’s lapidary skill, Alison Stone has fashioned a string of gemlike poems that indeed (dare I say it?) dazzle-with wisdom, wit, and brio. She’s crafted every line to a high polish, rich in metaphor and music. …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Alison Stone, Full-Length Collection, Women Poets
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Ghazal Cosmopolitan

October 16, 2017 Jacar Press

Shadab Zeest Hashmi

“A marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary criticism and memoir…”

Marilyn Hacker

“…a gift that enriches our literature…”

Eleanor Wilner

“…a celebration of, and a love letter to, the language of the world…”

Fady Joudah

“…a smorgasbord …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Ghazals, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Women Poets
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I Want to Undie You

October 14, 2017 Jacar Press

Jaki Shelton Green

A ritual of grace and love for what remains in memory after great loss.

I Want To Undie You is Jaki Shelton Green’s unflinching cry of sorrow at the untimely death of her daughter Imani; and Jaki’s insistence, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Black Poets, Book Art, Book-Length Poem, Chapbook, Collectible, Jaki Shelton Green, Women Poets
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In Case of Sudden Free Fall

August 28, 2017 Jacar Press

Deborah Bogen

“Grown-up poems for grown-ups.”

Stuart Friebert

“I loved reading In Case of Sudden Free Fall, Deborah Bogen’s beautiful and remarkable oneiric prose poem collection. A delicious gem, it takes the reader on a soulful and transformative journey. Under …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Contest Winners, Deborah Bogen, Full-Length Collection, Women Poets
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Ardor

Jacar Press

Tina Kelley

“In Ardor, Tina Kelley crafts nineteen love poems to the world, celebrating the details of the daily-a new garden, town names on an atlas, the sound of swallowing. She pays close attention to language, writing an ode to …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Tina Kelley, Women Poets
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Duet

February 8, 2017 Jacar Press

Dorianne Laux & Joe Millar

Available on Kindle.

Two of our most celebrated poets, Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, weave together poems about music in a chapbook that riffs on the theme of the title; the poems move forward on …

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Posted in: Books, Greatest Hits Series Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Dorianne Laux, Greatest Hits, Joseph Millar, Women Poets
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Gnomon

Jacar Press

Cynthia Huntington

“After experience is done teaching us just about everything it thinks it needs to teach us, we come back to desire, the one thing worth knowing. This time around desire shows up as a wild calm, dead center …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Cynthia Huntington, Women Poets
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An Elegy

Jacar Press

Benjamin S. Grossberg

“Difficult as it is to describe honestly the spectacle of living, to describe death and dying is to go almost where language can’t: past knowledge, experience, or the reliable image. Yet what An Elegy achieves, through its …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Chapbook, Contest Winners, LGBTQ+ Poets

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