is a love story—about Sue and her guitar It starts with a cheap guitar the poet’s mother bought with Blue Chip stamps and continues through her life, outlasting jobs, marriages, and deaths.
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was inspired by the life and teachings of Dōgen Zenji and “elucidates the intricacies of Zen philosophy in poems spare as a winterbreath of silence”
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—our Third Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by editor, Shawn Aveningo Sanders, is a beautiful tribute to a father, written in a daughter’s favorite language—poetry. These poems celebrate the life of the author’s father—a rural physician, accomplished musician, and man who was one with the earth—and take the reader on an imagery-rich journey of mourning and healing.
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is our Second Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by editor, Shawn Aveningo Sanders.
John Brehm calls it “a powerful work of empathic imagination…searing poems of witness…” These poetic observations derive from years of volunteer work, both at a homeless clinic and a women’s day shelter
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is our First Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by contest judge, Andrea Hollander.
The poems in The Squannacook at Daw are linked by the speaker’s experiences with water and revolve around fishing, and explore the speaker’s relationship with the loss of his father, the peace of the natural world, aging, environmental change, and spirituality.
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—These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to a magical wish for those living on the streets of Saigon. Time lives differently in this work. Poems layer details of the human and natural world with the heart tugging awareness of the ephemeral nature of all things. Within that tender beauty, these poems offer the possibility of transformation. An unfathomable radiance moves through us/ we are more of this world than we know, and less.
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—Rushing in as a welcome surprise, these “new late poems” were composed both late in the year and late in the author’s years. In Jump Straight Up, Jarold Ramsey versifies and pokes at an odd knot of themes: encroaching age overtaking a long wonderful marriage; the delights of grandparenthood; awareness of our “interspecies” situation in the everyday natural order; the blessings and challenges of my ancestral “land of heart’s desire,” Central Oregon’s canyons, summits, and rangelands; and the intriguing ways the mostly horizontal left-to-right axis of our lives seems to shift in old age toward the vertical—“way down” (and out) but also “jump straight up” (in the imagination).
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The Hills Around Are Dust and Light—These poems sketch a portrait of the author’s growing-up years in Montana surrounded by her wheat-farming father, a busy at-home mother, two older siblings, and a lonely grandmother. Moments of strife and stress return, but here you will also find joy and a great deal of love and gratitude for each other, for hard work, for the mystery of faith, for the land, and for what the land has endured. Her poems become the embodiment of memories—from eating brown sugar sandwiches, to skipping rocks on a Glacier Park lake, to wandering through dreams and the afterlife—as they offer family stories, tragedies, speculation, and attempts to understand it all.
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