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Concrete Jungle Allegories by Dasan Ahanu.

Concrete Jungle Allegories

January 14, 2025 pwsbuilder

Dasan Ahanu

"Spoken Word artist Dasan Ahanu is the inaugural recipient of the Unsung Poet Award for his manuscript, Concrete Jungle Allegories. This is a joint project between Jacar Press and Sable Books, awarded to honor someone who is an …

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Posted in: Books, Uncategorized Filed under: 2025 Publications, Full-Length Collection
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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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Pink Moon

February 12, 2024 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
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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
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Speak Now This Charm

October 29, 2022 Jacar Press

Deborah Bogen

Available on Kindle.

In Speak Now This Charm, Deborah Bogen creates a mosaic from states of mind we all experience, but are trained to ignore. Or forget. Or devalue. She records what is visible and what is positioned …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2022 Publications, Deborah Bogen, Full-Length Collection, Prose Poetry, Women Poets
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The Dead Are Everywhere Telling Us Things

June 20, 2022 Jacar Press

Sean Thomas Dougherty

Also available on Kindle.

“Raw and plainspoken, heartbreaking yet humorous, this book is free of even the slightest hint of poetry-posturing. ‘I learned how to take care / of people from taking care of you I thought …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2022 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Sean Thomas Dougherty
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IN/DESIDERATO

October 25, 2021 Jacar Press

Jon D. Lee

IN/DESIDERATO is a poetic meditation on what remains of us, and what has been left behind.

As refracted through the battlefields of WWII and the War on Terror, and equally through the deepest ocean depths and the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2021 Publications, Book-Length Poem, Full-Length Collection, Jon D Lee
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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
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Zombies at the Disco

November 23, 2020 Jacar Press

Alison Stone

OUT OF STOCK. Available on Kindle.

Alison Stone brings us contemporary ghazals that maintain the integrity of the original form while expanding the subject matter to include everything from pets to politics. Often funny, sometimes achingly sad, these …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Alison Stone, Full-Length Collection, Ghazals, Women Poets
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Someone You Love Is Still Alive

November 17, 2019 Jacar Press

Ephraim Scott Sommers

“Someone You Love is Still Alive compels the reader to remember that they are, after all, still human. Despite a fractured world, a challenging experience of what it is to be a member of a global society, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Ephraim Scott Sommers, Full-Length Collection

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