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A couple of guitars are sitting on the ground

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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Notes for a Praise Book

October 23, 2012 Jacar Press

Jeff Hardin

Available on Kindle.

“Jeff Hardin is extremely sophisticated, mature, and knows exactly what he is doing.”

Toi Derricotte, The Undertaker’s Daughter (Pitt Poetry Series), Academy of American Poets’ Board of Chancellors

“An ‘advocate of letting things lean as …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2012 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Jeff Hardin
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Amaranthine Hour

October 2, 2012 Jacar Press

Chera Hammons

Available on Kindle.

Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest

“This is wonderful work. The poems in Amaranthine Hour are both vibrant and somehow modest at the same time, wonderfully reflective. The speaker has earned maturity and understanding …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2012 Publications, Chera Hammons, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Women Poets
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Smoke of Her Body

Jacar Press

Stephanie Levin

Winner of the Jacar Press Full Length Book Contest

Sensuous and precise, these poems explore the boundaries and transgressions between parents, children, lovers: the ways we confine one another, the ways we break free.

“This one just has …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2011 Publications, Contest Winners, Full-Length Collection, Stephanie Levin, Women Poets
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The Next Moment

Jacar Press

Debra Kaufman

Available on Kindle.

“Kaufman’s poems trace a journey of passion, emotional turmoil, loss and reconfiguration, sometimes in natural settings of almost mystical beauty. She can be exact: ‘the heron hushed and studious…’ Or lyrical: ‘…leaves swoop and skirt/the …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2011 Publications, Debra Kaufman, Full-Length Collection, Women Poets

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