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Tag: Contest Winners

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, Latinx Poetry, New Voices, Women's Poetry

Bulletproof

February 8, 2019 Jacar Press

Matthew Murrey

“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 pleasurable situations hold …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Matthew Murrey

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. …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Contest Winners, Deborah Bogen, Full-Length

Ardor

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 …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Tina Kelley

Gnomon

February 8, 2017 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 …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2017 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Cynthia Huntington

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 …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Benjamin S. Grossberg, Chapbook, Contest Winners

A Dog’s Life

August 30, 2016 Jacar Press

Adam Scheffler –

Winner 2016 Jacar Press Full-length Contest

“A Dog’s Life is a delightful romp through Americana by way of ‘real’ America with sly, politically engaged poems. Though this poet issues a rallying cry against ‘siren songs of entertainment,’ …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Adam Scheffler, Contest Winners, Full-Length

After the Three Moon Era

January 18, 2016 Jacar Press

Gary Fincke –

Winner of the 2015 Jacar Press Poetry Book Prize

In After the Three Moon Era, Gary Fincke keeps returning to the missing, the vanished, the disappeared. The speaker of his sharply-etched poems is a man in late …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length, Gary Fincke
Disquiet

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 …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2015 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Kelly Michels
Marks of the Witch

Marks of the Witch

November 24, 2014 Jacar Press

Catherine Carter –

“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.”

Joseph Millar,…

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Catherine Carter, Chapbook, Contest Winners

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