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Tag: Contest Winners

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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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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 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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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,’ his …

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

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2016 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Gary Fincke
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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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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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Music from Small Towns

October 18, 2014 Jacar Press

Al Maginnes

Available on Kindle.

“What I love about these poems is how they manage to be so eloquent without being pretentious. I’m also drawn to the way Maginnes juxtaposes fire and its quick losses with fire’s complement, slow vanishing. …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2014 Publications, Al Maginnes, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection
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The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths

October 17, 2013 Jacar Press

Sandy Longhorn

Available on Kindle.

Winner of the Jacar Press 2013 Full Length Book Contest

“These sly, beautifully crafted poems inhabit and haunt the heart-land. Sandy Longhorn is a poet with the gifts of observation and imagination. An original voice …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Sandy Longhorn, Women Poets
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The Garden of Persuasions

Jacar Press

Maura High

Winner of the Jacar Press 2013 Chapbook Contest

“The Garden of Persuasions speaks in a low voice you must quiet yourself to hear. ‘I have left some things out of this picture,’ it says in one of the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2013 Publications, Chapbook, Contest Winners, Maura High, Women Poets

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