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Tag: 2013 Publications

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What Matters

October 17, 2013 Jacar Press

Ed. Kaufman, Krawiec, Levin

Available on Kindle.

Questions, answers, meditations, and explorations on the why and how of living.

Poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, MacArthur Foundation Genius grantee Thylias Moss, National Book Award finalist Alan Shapiro, Yale Series …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Anthology, Debra Kaufman, Richard Krawiec, Stephanie Levin, Women Poets
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The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths

Jacar Press

Sandy Longhorn

Available on Kindle.

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 …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Sandy Longhorn, Women Poets
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The Garden of Persuasions

Jacar Press

Maura High

Winner of the Jacar Press 2013 Chapbook Contest

“The Garden of Persuasions speaks in a low voice you must quiet yourself to hear. ‘I have left some things out of this picture,’ it says in one of the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Maura High, Women Poets
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Reckoning

Jacar Press

Edison Jennings

“Tough words from Edison Jennings on how to survive ‘the coming of claws and snapping teeth,’ and how to reckon our course through ‘the plenty of loss.’ No whine in this voice, no plead for succor-these hard-hitting poems …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Edison Jennings
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7

Jacar Press

Ed. Beary, Moore

OUT OF STOCK.Available on Kindle.

Edited by Roberta Beary and Lenard D. Moore, this collection highlights fourteen haiku writers who chose their “best poems,” those they believed would last over time.  The writers were selected in a …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Anthology, Haiku, Lenard D. Moore, Roberta Beary, Women Poets
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Sonnets of the Cross – Collector's Edition

February 27, 2013 Jacar Press

Joseph Bathanti

OUT OF STOCK.

A hand-bound, limited edition chapbook, signed and numbered by NC Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti. Original pen and ink art works by Tasmanian artist and poet Ron Moss, created exclusively for this project.

The Sonnets of the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Book Art, Chapbook, Collectible, Joseph Bathanti
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…and love…

October 2, 2012 Jacar Press

Ed. Elrod, Kaufman, Krawiec

Poems by Marge Piercy, Sam Hamill, Dorianne Laux, Ron Rash, Lola Haskins, Stuart Dischell, doris davenport, Fred Chappell, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alan Michael Parker, Michael Chitwood, Betty Adcock, Joe Millar, Nancy Simpson, David Huddle, Holly Iglesias, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Allison Elrod, Anthology, Debra Kaufman, Richard Krawiec, Women Poets
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