An intimate, tender and lyrical chapbook that looks back at a childhood, where friendship, family, and slavery intersect. These poems ponder the conflicted emotions, from joy to sorrow, that come from meditating on one’s legacy.
Shelby Stephenson’s Family Matters: Homage to …
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Questions, answers, meditations, and explorations on the why and how of living.
Poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, MacArthur Foundation Genius grantee Thylias Moss, National Book Award finalist Alan Shapiro, Yale Series …
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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 …
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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Edited by Roberta Beary and Lenard D. Moore, this collection highlights fourteen haiku writers who chose their “best poems,” those they believed would last over time. The writers were selected in a …
Poems by Marge Piercy, Sam Hamill, Dorianne Laux, Ron Rash, Lola Haskins, Stuart Dischell, doris davenport, Fred Chappell, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alan Michael Parker, Michael Chitwood, Betty Adcock, Joe Millar, Nancy Simpson, David Huddle, Holly Iglesias, …
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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 …
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 …
Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest
A woman’s yearning and the inevitable losses of a life take shape, find meaning in the rejuvenating power of the natural world, and the rich textures of language.
“Here is …
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A rare, limited edition handmade book of sonnets about race relationships in the South by the former NC Poet Laureate. Each one of the 100 copies of this collectible book art is made from …
