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All I Know About a Heavy Heart Is How to Carry It

January 6, 2025 pwsbuilder

Chisom Okafor

"All I Know About a Heavy Heart Is How to Carry It is a celebrated revival of the absorbing language of an observant writer who raises and struggles with the right questions that the heart requires answering. Chisom …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2025 Publications, Chapbook
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With Different Wars Raging

January 3, 2025 pwsbuilder

Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena

"Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena is the author of three chapbooks. His work has appeared in Poetry Daily, The Bitter Oleander, The Columbia Review, The Cortland Review, The Ocean State Review, Pembroke Magazine, Louisiana Literature, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2024 Publications, Chapbook, Christopher Nelson, Contest Winners
Windshear: Poems by Christopher Nelson

WINDSHEAR

November 4, 2024 pwsbuilder

Christopher Nelson

"In this richly imagistic and formally inventive collection, Christopher Nelson illuminates the dailiness of beauty and horror juxtaposed in our natural and private worlds. These poems see straight through to the actual, at once unflinching and tender. ‘I’ve …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2024 Publications, Chapbook, Christopher Nelson, Contest Winners, Full-Length
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White Dresses

August 26, 2024 pwsbuilder

Jaki Shelton Green

White Dresses by Jaki Shelton Green. Limited Edition. $40

This collectible work of Book Art is a 24 page accordion book printed on archival paper, produced by artists from 3 countries. It was published to coincide with …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: Chapbook, Full-Length Collection, Jaki Shelton Green
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What Is Left

February 12, 2024 Jacar Press 2 Comments

Bunkong Tuon

“With stirring clarity, modesty, and understatement, Tuon shares the feeling of what it must have been like at one end and what words can light up the next mystery. Most of all, he finds a place for himself …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2024 Publications, Bunkong Tuon, Chapbook, Contest Winners
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Pieta

October 9, 2023 Jacar Press

Frank Paino

“Pieta” stands out as a profound collection that delves into the depths of human experience, eliciting emotions that resonate on a universal scale. With poems of careful craft and a brushstroke of clear-cut language “Pieta” paints vibrant and …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2023 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Frank Paino
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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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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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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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