A Journal of Poetry & Art—

Don’t miss your chance to order this very special issue! The pigeon is resting its wings after a decade of beautiful poetry & art. This will be our final issue. For the full list of contributors and samples from the issue, click the button below.

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by Elizabeth Mateer—

is an evocative poetry collection that explores love, loss, and the search for belonging. From tiny New York apartments to intimate moments in the desert, this collection captures the essence of human connection and celebrates the unyielding strength found in moments of vulnerability.

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by Lois Levinson—

“Her studious-but-playful gaze falls on what she loves and lights it up: mule deer antlers are ‘moon-silvered,’ a coyote’s ‘well fed and swaggering like a senator,’ bluebird eggs seem ‘Insubstantial as rings of blue smoke suspended in air.’ But Levinson understands that we are finally as insubstantial as what we study; her melancholy negotiations with the fact of limit lends her seeing a poignant urgency.”

—Mark Doty, National Book Award-winning poet

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by Steven Croft

explores the natural beauty in his birth-state of Georgia, where his poems bring the reader to the lush coastal landscapes of the Barrier Islands and the nurturing comforts of Southern living.

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Metal Used for Beauty Alone

by Claudia Saleeby Savage

Scheduled Release Date: Aug 15, 2023

Pre-order discount thru July 24, 2023
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“Claudia Saleeby Savage’s provocative, transcendent poetry brilliantly captures the energy of live music, providing a perspective that can only come from inside the band onstage. This book is for those who find the systemless system of free jazz relaxing. Those who, like our fearless narrator, have had their hearts ‘savaged by grief’ and ‘hate boxes.’ Along with Pharoah Sanders, John and Alice Coltrane, and the author’s husband and musical partner John Savage, metal used for beauty alone ‘blows a horn to heaven.'”

—Christopher Luna, Inaugural Poet Laureate of Clark County, WA
and founder of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic

“metal used for beauty alone proposes and enacts a world where instruments prevail in production and resonance over guns. Through careful visual composition and an experimental spirit that even the legends of jazz would admire, this chapbook pops off with flushed language and jolting creativity. Lively scores (not deadly shots) fire as we read, led by Savage as our witch observer who can ‘stun the moon,’ ‘hush the sirens,’ and ‘refold our brains’ to sort out systemic violence. The poet is a proxy to musicians, together disarming a trigger-happy death grip in favor of the power of clapping sax keys, markings for breath, and collapsing wordplay. Society in metal used for beauty alone is populated by healing dissonance, spiritual jazzers, and live shows, all pistoling a post-military-industrial complex through poetry… inviting us to tarab instead of annihilate.”

—Katherine Factor, author of A Sybil Society: Poems

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 We are very excited to announce the winners and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our second annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult!

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Tricia Knoll!

FIRST PLACE

Lauren Tiven of St. Augustine, Florida for Moroccan Holiday 

SECOND PLACE

Christine Higgins of Towson, Maryland for Hello, Darling 

THIRD PLACE

Debbie Hall of Escondido, California for Falling Into the River

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Other Finalists:

Carie Juettner of Austin, Texas for Death Can’t Sleep

Julia Paul of Manchester, Connecticut for Staring Down the Tracks

Allison Thorpe of Lexington, Kentucky for By the Light of Women

Margaret Chula of Portland, Oregon for In the Shadows
published as Shadow Man

Zeina Azzam of Alexandria, Virginia for Bayna, Bayna

Nancy Hewitt of Swampscott, Massachusetts for This Slanted Scene

Martin Willits of Syracuse, New York for The Miles Before Sleep

Leonard Neufeldt of Gig Harbor, Washington for More-than-Human Nearness

John Davis of Bainbridge Island, Washington for Downhill Edge

Calvin Olsen of Chapel Hill, South Carolina for Grounded

Jed Myers of Seattle, Washington for Word of our Crossing

Victoria Nordlund of South Glastonbury, Connecticut for Homer Saw a Wine-Dark Sea

(We will open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2020)

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We are very excited to announce the winners and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our first annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult!

FIRST PLACE

SECOND PLACE

Tied for THIRD PLACE

&

Gudrun Bortman of Santa Barbara, CA
for
Fireweed

Other Finalists:

Clela Reed of Athens, Georgia
Silk

Dianne Avey of Anderson Island, Washington
Impossible Ledges

Lynn DeTurk of La Quinta, California
Kaddish: A Song for Two

Pamela R. Anderson of Munroe Falls, Ohio
Tap Dancing

Sally Zakariya of Arlington, Virginia
Other Voices, Other Lives
published as The Unknowable Lives of Other People

Tiel Aisha Ansari of Portland, Oregon
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable

(We will open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2019)

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Thank you to all of the 156 poets who entered our first annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult!

Announcing the Finalists:

Christopher Bogart of Eatontown, New Jersey
Fourteen: Antología del Río Grande

Clela Reed of Athens, Georgia
Silk

Dianne Avey of Anderson Island, Washington
Impossible Ledges

Gudrun Bortman of Santa Barbara, California
Fireweed

Judy Mosher of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Shrinking Bones

Lynn DeTurk of La Quinta, California
Kaddish: A Song for Two

Pamela R. Anderson of Munroe Falls, Ohio
Tap Dancing

Penelope Scambly Schott of Portland, Oregon
November Quilt

Sally Zakariya of Arlington, Virginia
Other Voices, Other Lives

Tiel Aisha Ansari of Portland, Oregon
Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare’s Stable

Winner(s) to be announced May 31, 2018

(We will open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2019)

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Wednesday, Nov 4, 2016
7:00-8:30 pm

Of Course, I’m a Feminist!
Book Launch Reading & Open Mic

at

Milwaukie Poetry Series
The Pond House
(at the Ledding Library)
2215 SE Harrison Street
Milwaukie, OR 97222

Featured readers include:
Judith Arcana, Tricia Knoll, Sharon Wood Wortman, Carter McKenzie, Ila Suzanne, Brittney Corrigan, Pam Crow, Gail Barker and Shawn Aveningo

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.

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Sunday, March 22, 2015
7:00-9:00 pm

The Way A Woman Knows
Book Launch Celebration

at

TaborSpace (Dining Room)
5441 SE Belmont Street
Portland, Oregon, 97215

The Poetry Box is proud to announce the release of Carolyn Martin’s poetry collection, The Way A Woman Knows. We invite everyone to join in the celebration and hear Carolyn’s new book come to life – from her voice along with the voices of local poets and friends.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.

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