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Poetry Chapbook Competition
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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.
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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
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Laurie Mazzaferro's poetry strikes an emotional chord that will resonate through you—heart, soul, and bones.
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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"This is poetry wondrously intelligent and spectacularly descriptive,
drenched with color." —Dusty Dog
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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.
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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."
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"...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
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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.
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The Fatboy with No Imagination
from Down the Block (1989)
By Richard Amidon $4.00
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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.
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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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