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Ardor

August 28, 2017 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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Disquiet

October 21, 2015 Jacar Press

Kelly Michels

“The philosophy and emotional pulse moving behind the words-that and the flawless lineation of the music-just wouldn’t let me go.”

Jamaal May, Hum (Alice James Books) American Library Association Notable Book Award

“Kelly Michels’ collection takes us to …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Kelly Michels, Women Poets
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The Vishnu Bird

May 21, 2015 Jacar Press

Kathryn Stripling Byer

“The Vishnu Bird is both a memorial and a memoir in lyric poetry. This clean-spoken, deeply-felt chapbook remembers the poet’s dear friend by tracing his vocation of anthropology, and honoring his spiritual depth, through vignettes from the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Women Poets
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Marks of the Witch

November 24, 2014 Jacar Press

Catherine Carter

Available on Kindle.

“Catherine Carter’s poems wrestle with contemporary human dilemmas: identity, aging, nostalgia, desire, as well as our place in the natural world. I’m drawn to her diction, spiky and sharp, grounded in the imagery of experience.”…

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Catherine Carter, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Women Poets
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Widow Poems

August 28, 2014 Jacar Press

Betty Adcock

OUT OF STOCK.

These deeply moving poems about grief, its aftermath, and learning to embrace the world again rank with Betty Adcock’s finest work.

A new book of poetry by the author of six award-winning collections from LSU …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Betty Adcock, Chapbook, Women Poets
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Feeding the Light

July 16, 2014 Jacar Press

Jaki Shelton Green

Also available on Kindle.

“Rooted in hypnagogic logic and deeply seated in the tradition of Jayne Cortez, Quincy Troupe and Ntozake Shange, Jaki Shelton Green’s verse narratives pay homage to the orphic ethos of the mythmaking South …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Black Poets, Chapbook, Jaki Shelton Green, Women Poets
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Steal Away

Jacar Press

Shelby Stephenson

An intimate, tender and lyrical chapbook that looks back at a childhood, where friendship, family, and slavery intersect. These poems ponder the conflicted emotions, from joy to sorrow, that come from meditating on one’s legacy.

Shelby Stephenson’s Family Matters: Homage to …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Chapbook, Shelby Stephenson, Women Poets

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