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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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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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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