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...
D. Keali‘i MacKenzie Winner of the 5th Annual Backbone Press Chapbook Contest. Final Judge Khalisa Rae’s comments:The Mana of Salt is a beautifully executed chapbook with language that’s gripping and evocative. In many ways, the collection works as both a...
Carolyn Hall butterflies under glass concerns a closely examined life. Hall faces daily trials with clarity, wit, and wisdom. She urges readers to seek technical support in nature and human nature. Her haiku are endlessly fresh and never boilerplate. Carolyn...
Chad Lee Robinson The White Buffalo celebrates the land of the Lakota. Not only its rugged terrain but a life lived in harmony with the horse and with the buffalo. There is grief too for the loss of this majesty. Each haiku is a gem: polished and focused. Chad Lee...
Austin Sanchez-Moran “The poems in Rhinocerotica are inventive yet tender. In the end, I do not know if I am the rhino, and the poems want me to see my larger connection with the world—or, if the rhino is made human, so I, a human, will pay attention, and so I fail...
