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Tag: Contest Winners

Book cover: With Different Wars Raging.

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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LATE STAGE

November 1, 2024 pwsbuilder

 

Mark Neely

"What a remarkable sensibility lives in Mark Neely’s Late Stage, at times cynical and witty, at times filled with awe at an America that is at once beautiful and uncanny and more than a little frightening. Here …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2024 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Mark Neely
A book cover with a tree and birds on it.

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
A pink painting with the words " pink moon ".

Pink Moon

Jacar Press

Tina Barr

from Deployed

At lunch, Shelby tells me her mother died when she was twenty-one, father gone. In the living room, a cop, her uncle, and a lawyer, who slid a piece of paper across the coffee table. She …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2024 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Tina Barr, Women Poets
A red painting with the word pieta written in yellow.

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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Stillness in the Land of Speed

November 21, 2022 Jacar Press

Violeta Orozco

“Violeta Orozco offers a deep range of poetic sensibilities inside of plain talk and personal brown body politic. Stillness in the Land of Speed allows us to inhale the Atlantic and wade with the wisdom inside Yemaya’s skirt …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2022 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Latinx Poets, New Voices, Violeta Orozco, Women Poets
A painting of the sky with the words " of inedible things " written on it.

Earth of Inedible Things

March 22, 2021 Jacar Press

Joshua Martin

Available in Kindle too.

“At times an homage to icons of western culture such as Rubens and Rembrandt, and at other times the honest tracing of workers leaving the poverty of small farmers for the grinding struggle of …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Joshua Martin
A bullet proof umbrella is shown with the word bulletproof underneath it.

Bulletproof

February 8, 2019 Jacar Press

Matthew Murrey

Available on Kindle.

“A generous range of thought-worthy subjects, approached with simplicity, wisdom, and a deft use of language.”

Marilyn Nelson

The poems in Bulletproof look at the joy and dread of being alive in this world. Even …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Matthew Murrey
A woman lying on the ground with her head down.

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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