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Tag: 2020 Publications

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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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