is a clever collection of persona poems based on Frank L. Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” that in turn shows the Midwest in full-color and beauty, giving voice to familiar characters and to unexpected entities. Hidden aspects of their lives are revealed, showing Kansas as a place worthy of imagination, one that demands our attention.
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is a practice in ordinary love, both longing for and celebrating connection. Here, we may partake in reading as if a friend speaks to us directly. This friend that—despite mistakes and overreaching—invests herself with unabashed earnestness in the greenest of hope, imagination, freedom, beginner’s mind, surrender, and renewal.
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Janet Steward became caregiver for her husband when memory loss joined his list of chronic conditions. This moving collection not only documents the couple’s journey, but it offers a source of insight, courage, and comfort. More than anything these poems teach us that the practice of love is a lifelong exercise, one that is rewarded with a beautiful, intimate dance for two.
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weaves stories of North Carolina and South Carolina through various people and places. Her poems are a glimpse into the place the Old Folk’s call “God’s Country.” From looking outside her grandparent’s home in Brevard, North Carolina to recounting her sister’s journey to a cottage at Pawleys Island, the reader can travel with her on this journey of recognition and recollection.
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gives us a poetic instruction manual for everything from picking mulberries, saying I love you, to living with ghosts. These poems apply the language of direction—with its imperatives and step-by-step guidelines—to life’s experiences and emotions and offer insight in a unique poetic manner.
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We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest.
And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Andrea Hollander!
The Mother/Daughter Papers by Gail Rudd Entrekin (CA)
Currents for Jellyfish by Briana Fischella (FL)
Journey of Trees by Susan Landgraf (WA)
The Last Angels by Richard Lyons (TN)
Now Is What Matters by Janet Steward (WA)
Beguiled by Ingrid Wendt (OR)
The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dogen by James K. Zimmerman (NY)
Rescue Dogs by Fred Zirm (MD)
pulls on the fraying threads that divide us and gently weaves them with striking imagery to inspire connections through hope and, at times, humor.
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is “a marvelously witty glimpse of the divinity that resides within us all: a self-awareness creating universes and loving every tiniest bit, laughing and crying over our human foibles.”
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