“...How do we name the political hypocrisies—all men are created equal—while knowing the threats all around you and holding your child, in all his beauty, in your arms? These poems engage questions, guide us into reflection, and agitate us towards action, change, and love.” —Raina León

FINAL DAYS! Spacks Prize entries close at the end of April. Send your manuscript! Prize includes $1000, publication by Gunpowder Press, and 20 copies of the published book. Enter via Submittable through April 30. Full details on our website or Submittable: gunpowderpress.submittable.com/submit

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-...

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!)

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: bit.ly/4hpLwow

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!

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....

💖 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. 💖 💣 www.eventbrite.com/e/gunpowder-...