Gabriela Halas In Halas’ collection, we follow wolf tracks, brown bear prints, and the ghost-breath of elk to get in close to the tender things that make us human: new life, loss, language, music and the fresh, green earth. Halas expertly uses sound, white space, and...
Rebecca Foust Inspired by a rereading of 1984 during the pandemic and the turbulent years of the 2016-20 Trump administration, these poems explore the disturbing parallels between George Orwell’s totalitarian dystopia and America’s emerging political landscape....
Julie Schwerin 2024 Haiku Chapbook Contest Winner Julie Schwerin’s clear-eyed, sometimes gently humorous and always open-hearted haiku impart an almost cosmic sense of accord—just the balm our fraught spirits could use in these discordant times. Spending quality time...
Victor Ortiz 2024 Haiku Chapbook Contest Runner-Up “Victor Ortiz’s gone/to seed is an intimate collection of haiku and senryu that balances traditional haiku aesthetics and experimentation. Ortiz embarks on a spiritual journey examining the impact of...
Angel C. Dye Runner-up in the 5th Annual Backbone Press Chapbook Contest. Angel C. Dye is a poet, scholar of African American Literature, and the author of BREATHE (Central Square Press). She has received fellowships from The Watering Hole and Furious Flower Poetry...
