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Poetry Chapbook Competition
Winner's Gallery
"Robert Okaji's poetry reminds us there is enlightenment to be gleaned in the terrible and the beautiful." —Charlotte Hamrick
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"All Animals Want the Same Things packs a wallop of levity amidst gut-punching defeats."
—Martha Silano
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"These are moving poems brimful with
weight and virtue." —Marc
Harshman
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"Davenport celebrates the sublime and the ordinary in equal measure, from the moon's "ancient lunar
light" to "a rusty chain-link fence."
—Ellen Bass
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"These hard-hitting poems roll into a
reader’s consciousness like a ‘great wheel of pain’ and stay there,
leaving us breathless."
—Sandy Coomer
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"Using noir and dystopian sci-fi movies and TV series for his
jumping off point, Alan Catlin’s latest collection, Blue Velvet, paints a picture of contemporary
America’s anxieties, obsessions, and fears. Catlin is merciless in his depictions of the rot at the
heart of our current social and political climate, as reflected in pop culture."
—Robert Cooperman
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"This is Francine Witte's world.
Weigh the odds, take your chances, put your money down. Take comfort in knowing that it may not
always be pretty but–for once in your life–you can get the whole, clear view…rather than how we too
often find things, spread out in a million different directions, all of them going nowhere."
—George Wallace
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The Function of Sadness (2015)
By Neil Carpathios $10.00
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"In The
Function of Sadness, Neil Carpathios introduces us to his world, a world familiar to most alert
citizens, but one that usually makes us avert our eyes: the maimed, the desolate, the abandoned and
those who just plain hurt. In poem after exquisite poem, he makes their traumas ours, and unites us
to all things frail and mortal."
—John Skoyles
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"Nicole Antonio's chapbook,
Another Mistake, is an absolutely breath-taking collection. These poems are urgent and
immediate, visceral and gripping. There is an exquisite delicacy to Nicole Antonio’s poetry that is
also both muscular and provocative as well. Don’t miss this poet or her remarkable, knock-out debut.
" —David St. John
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"We all
experience the daily, where there is "little romance," yet we continue to cast about for the sweet
spot in a moment's gamble and relief. These are the poems of living, living with hope, living with
crazy, living among the lost and the forsaken, always alive to experience life's essence."
—Michele Lesko
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"This collection is ripe with
stories; beautiful sad stories, hopeful dreamy stories, stories of wild wise boys, troubled men and
resilient women, scenes brutal and beautiful, heartbreak, understanding, endurance and grace, the
risks of love, dreams that feel like waking moments and vice versa."
—Dave Morrison
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Moriah Erickson is in the business of getting to the bottom of things. Her poems are sharp, wicked
and wise. She knows what our best poets know: hidden in nearly every experience, even the most
chaotic, is some shining center.
—Ryan Vine
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"This work is unlike any other, in
its range of rich, conjuring imagery and its dexterity, its smart voice. Carroll-Hackett doesn’t
spare us—but doesn’t save us—she draws a blueprint of power and class with her unflinching pivot:
matter-of-fact and tender." —Jan
Beatty
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Chorlton is
one of America's finest poets and in this superb work he combines classical restraint with an
impassioned meditation. He mourns the diminished present, the sublimation of the spiritual/animist
in the material, and the loss of artistry, memory and meaning. —Stephanie Dickinson
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"At once feisty and powerful, Carrie
Shipers’s poems help us remember secret warnings we learn as children: to love hard against
violence, to take what we get, to escape when we can, to remember every detail for a brilliant
imagination to unpack and revive: 'stories they lived without learning/what they meant.' At last we
have a poet to teach us what she learned, that 'what’s broken matters less than how it heals.' To
read Rescue Conditions is to experience the pure joy of recovering family identities—as heroes,
outlaws, lovers, and tender citizens—through art." —Hilda Raz
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"Here is a poet who is fully engaged in the world and with language, and who makes
no concessions to political correctness or the industry of consolation. Instead, Goetsch fearlessly
explores the culture at large and his own emotions, zestfully exposing the thoughts we usually hide
from others and even ourselves. 'Have you ever felt the world was full of edges?' Goetsch asks, and
he can't keep himself from going right to those edges, whether he is writing about the entanglements
of adult life, the cluelessness of childhood, or, as he so deftly does in several poems, both at
once. The result is a poetry that is unforgiving, moving, and often very funny."
—Jeffrey Harrison
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"How can such worldly want and
wide-eyed craving to live fully finally ring so pure? Godbey's collection has real power...Her
beautiful, quiet voice speaks loudly for women in a compelling vernacular that men, too, will
understand and treasure." —Philip
F. Deaver
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Irwin's
collection is spare and yearning, his characters desperate and driven. The poems center around a
working class reality. Though he hails from NY state, Irwin manages a Midwestern scarcity, an
immediacy in the lives of his characters that reveal a poet wise in voice but young enough to
capture the fire of a 20-something looking down the long hall of a blue-collar career.
—C.L. Bledsoe, Ghoti Magazine
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| Beth Royer writes like a master
model-maker assembling snowstorm paperweights full of quirky domestic detail—a malfunctioning
strip-tease platform, a dream-enhancing radio, golf clubs at the bottom of a parched lake. Her poems
spin quixotic mirco-narratives into lyrical dream-shapes, like the stories of John Cheever run
through a cotton candy machine. Radio Dreams is an arch and artful chapbook that ought to be read by
everyone. |
| Street-wise and hard edged, Nikki Roszko is a poet whose words jump off the page
and crawl under your skin. Her poems are in the moment and out of control. They are charged with an
unihibited energy that rubs you raw and leaves you emotionally drained—but wanting more.
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| Dancing Bear writes with an interesting mix of lyrical voice and underlying
sarcasm, elevating the poems with language then toying with the reader in subtle, underlying tones.
—Ace Boggess., The Adirondack Review
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"Ronald
Wardall has written a fine chapbook with taut imagery and plainspoken detail. He captures the moment
in beautifully wrought details."
—Ralph Haselmann Jr., Lucid Moon Poetry Magazine |
| Laurie Mazzaferro's poetry strikes an
emotional chord that will resonate through you—heart, soul, and bones. |
Dancing with the One-Armed Man (1999)
By Alison Pelegrin
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| "Alison
Pelegrin's debut chapbook is as much a celebration of place—New Orleans and environs—as
the vivid voices of its people. Like a full-bodied wine, Dancing with the One-armed Man offers
subtlety, satisfaction, and a dizzying delight." —Enid Shomer |
 | Longing Fervently for
Revolution (1998)
By Renny Christopher $6.00
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"Renny
Christopher's poetry demonstrates that poetry can be a powerful access to understanding: her poems
allow working-class people to feel visible and respected in a genre that usually ignores or
objectifies them."
—Carolyn
Whitson
Metropolitan State University |
| A fiery
collection of deeply personal yet wonderfully accessible poems woven through themes of love, loss,
friendship, and the awkward, intractable moments of everyday life. |
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| An account of
Buys' three-year trek as a reporter in Latin America when he survived by living in two-dollar rooms
and eating one-cent bananas. "He pulls no punches and is a story teller of great regard."
—Semi-Dwarf Review |
| "A mixing of
memory and desire, sexuality and mortality that catches us unawares and touches us deeply. There's
a magical tenderness, a sly wit, a bebop jauntiness to every poem in this marvelous book."
—onthebus |
| "This is
poetry wondrously intelligent and spectacularly descriptive, drenched with color." —Dusty
Dog |
| A testament
to the decaying American dream. Seething with the hopelessness and bitterness of a marginal
existence one paycheck away from poverty. Nimmo has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes for his
fiction. |
| Hope and
survival amid the brutal despair and anonymity of contemporary Native American life. The very first
poetry chapbook by Sherman Alexie, whom Adrian Lewis has called "the brightest star in the younger
constellation of American Indian poets." |
| "...raw poetry concentrating on the dance of people dealing with people and the
masks that they wear. Fusek is great at drawing out personal images of some of the more camouflaged
people in the world." —Factsheet Five |
 | The Trial of Mary McCormick (1990)
By Robert Cooperman
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| A powerful
sequence of poems which chronicle the life of a young girl caught up in a passion play of lost
faith, temptation, and betrayal. |
The
Fatboy with No Imagination
from Down the Block (1989)
By Richard Amidon
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| A poignant
and playful romp through life's seasons, from the lusty optimism of adolescence to the crash and
burn of a marriage gone awry. Amidon's poetry spans a wide range of emotions and styles from comic
observations about everyday life to disturbing personal confessions. |
Locklin's
debut publication for Slipstream and Winner of our very first poetry chapbook competition. A witty
and wry collection of poems from which he draws heavily when performing live. A real treat for all
Locklin fans and lovers of modern poetry.
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