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:
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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
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(Color inspired by summer plums!)

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...

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.

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...

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!)

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. 📫

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:
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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!
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IN PRAISE OF LATE WONDER is available directly from Gunpowder Press and elsewhere. Such a fine collection!

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
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💖 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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