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Gunpowder Press
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A literary 501(c)(3) based in Santa Barbara, California. Edited by David Starkey and Chryss Yost.
Thank you to PLUME and Lynn deTurk for a thorough and thoughtful review of Joshua McKinney's spectacular collection, SAD ANIMAL. It's phenomenal, a winner of the John Ridland Poetry Prize, and available for purchase directly through Gunpowder's website:
gunpowderpress.com/product/sad-...
August 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The new Anacapa Review is ready to read, with new poems by: Lisa Shulman • Nancy Holt Wright • Sean Thomas Dougherty • Katherine Leyton • Perie Longo • Martha McCollough • Lisa Dominguez Abraham • David O’Meara • Veronica Kornberg
anacapareview.com
(Color inspired by summer plums!)
July 2, 2025 at 3:29 AM
We've been reveling in our latest project, WOMEN IN A GOLDEN STATE: 175 California poets at 60 and beyond. Many of our events will be accessible via Zoom. Learn more on our website: gunpowderpress.com/book/women-i...
June 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Write great poems, win cake* and prizes! Congratulations, Keith Ekiss, on the celebration for BURIAL FRAGMENTS, winner of the 2024 Spacks Prize!

Reminder: these are the FINAL DAYS to enter this year's Spacks Prize for a full-length collection. bit.ly/4jUdXfo

*Cake is a strong suggestion.
April 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Congrats to Andrea Carter and her Ridland Prize-winning manuscript FIGEATER! Her book will be forthcoming from Gunpowder this year. All the details and finalists here: gunpowderpress.com/poetry-prize...
April 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Thank you, Verse Daily, for feature a poem by Keith Ekiss from BURIAL FRAGMENTS, a just released Spacks Prize winner! It's a knockout (many San Francisco vignettes included!)
March 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Happy Birthday to Gabriel Ibarra!
To celebrate, his bilingual chapbook, winner of the Alta California Prize, ON DISPLAY, ships free today from Gunpowder Press.
💣 Please use coupon code HB2U at checkout to receive free shipping. 📫
March 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Beyond Baroque hosted our 10th anniversary event! Publishers David Starkey and Chryss Yost interviewed by George Yatchisin, with poetry by Nan Cohen, Catherine Abbey Hodges, Susan Kelly-Dewitt, Amelia Rodriquez, Nicholas Reiner, and Crystal AC Salas. And it was recorded:
bit.ly/4hpLwow
Gunpowder Press: 10 Years and Counting of Dynamite Poetry
YouTube video by Beyond Baroque
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February 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Thank you, Verse Daily, for featuring the title poem from Lee Herrick's IN PRAISE OF LATE WONDER as you poem of the day on Sunday!
www.versedaily.org/2025/inprais...
IN PRAISE OF LATE WONDER is available directly from Gunpowder Press and elsewhere. Such a fine collection!
www.versedaily.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This Saturday, 2 pm at Beyond Baroque (and YouTube)
Gunpowder Press with Catherine Abbey Hodges, Amelia Rodriguez, Nic Reiner, Nan Cohen, David Starkey, Crystal AC Salas, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, George Yatchisin, and Chryss Yost. Tickets and details at Beyond Baroque
www.eventbrite.com/.../gunpowde....
February 1, 2025 at 3:36 AM
💖 Gunpowder Press is celebrating our first 10 years at Beyond Baroque! February 1, 2:00-4:00 pm: Catherine Abbey Hodges, Amelia Rodriguez, Nicholas Reiner, Nan Cohen, David Starkey, Crystal AC Salas, Susan Kelly-DeWitt, George Yatchisin, and Chryss Yost. 💖
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January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM