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      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
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Awards 
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Timothy Geiger
         In a Field of Hallowed Be named an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize.
Mildred K. Barya
          The Animals of My Earth School named an Honorable Mention
 for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize.
Kathy Nelson
          The Ledger of Mistakes ​named an Honorable Mention for the 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize. 
Paige Riehl
          Paige Riehl 
named a 2024 Outstanding Educator by the Minnesota State College and Universities Board of Trustees. 
Ann Fisher-Wirth
         
Paradise Is Jagged 
nominated by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters for its 2024 poetry award. One of four nominees.
Karen Paul Holmes
          
won the 2023 Lascaux Poetry Prize for “Capturing the Scent of Rain” from No Such Thing as Distance.
Eric Nelson
          Horse Not Zebra 
received Honorable Mention for the 2023 North Carolina Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell Award.
Nicole Callihan
          Nicole received a 2023 Sustainable Arts Foundation Award. She is the author of This Strange Garment.
Kim Ports Parsons
         
The Mayapple Forest named second finalist for the 2023 Poetry Society of Virginia's North American Book Award.
Eric Nelson
          Horse Not Zebra named an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize in Poetry
        
  Horse Not Zebra named one of the six winners of the 2023 da Vinci Eye Award for cover design.
Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
          light waves named a finalist for the 2023 da Vinci Eye Award for cover design.
Robin Rosen Chang
          
Won a 2023 Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Heather Swan
          
A Kinship with Ash named one of 10 finalists for the 2022 ASLE Book Awards.
Melanie McCabe
          
The Night Divers named a finalist in the 2022 Library of Virginia Literary Awards.
Meghan Sterling
         
These Few Seeds named an Honorable Mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Award in Poetry.
         
These Few Seeds made the 2021 Eric Hoffer short list for the First Horizon Award which honors debut books.
          These Few Seeds also made the 2021 Eric Hoffer short list for the da Vinci Award which honors books for their cover design.
Robin Rosen Chang
         The Curator's Notes named a 2022 Independent Press Award Distinguished Favorite.
Emily Franklin
         
The title poem of Tell Me How You Got Here received a 2021 Best of the Net nomination from Shenandoah.  
Dion O'Reilly 
          Ghost Dogs a finalist for the Grand Prize and an honorable mention in the Poetry category for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award.
          Ghost Dogs received the 2021 The Independent Press Award in poetry.
Heather Swan  
          A Kinship with Ash long-listed for the 2020 Julie Suk Award.
Patricia Clark 
         
Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars won the Honorable Mention award in the 2020 Poetry by the Sea book contest.
Kory Wells 
          Kory nominated for the 2020 Athena International Leadership Award in recognition of her community leadership and her poetry.
Sarah Wetzel 
          The Davids Inside David named a semi-finalist for the 2020 PSV North American Poetry Book Award.
Lisa Bellamy 
          Won a 2018 Pushcart Prize for "Wild Pansy," from The Northway. 
          The Northway a finalist for the 2018 Woodrow Hall Top Shelf Award.
Michael T. Young 
        
The Infinite Doctrine of Water named to the long list of finalists for the 2018 Julie Suk Prize.
Christine Stewart-Nunez  
         
Appointed Poet Laureate of South Dakota July 1, 2019.
         Bluewords Greening received the 2018 Whirling Prize from Etchings Press. 
Patricia Clark 
          The Canopy received the 2018 Book Award from the Poetry Society of Virginia.
Michelle Menting 
          Leaves Surface Like Skin named a 2017 finalist by Foreword Reviews in its annual book contest.
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Lynne Knight 
          The Persistence of Longing a finalist for the 2016 Northern California Book Award in Poetry.
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  • Home
  • About
  • Awards
  • Contact
  • Forthcoming
    • Geraldine Connolly
    • Peter E. Murphy
  • Our Titles
    • Redux Series
    • Poetry Books >
      • NEW—Clare Banks
      • NEW—Michael Hettich
      • NEW—Kiyoko Reidy
      • NEW—Jin Cordaro
      • Annette Sisson
      • Timothy Geiger
      • Jacqueline Berger
      • Hayden Saunier
      • J.L. Conrad
      • Tom C. Hunley
      • Heather Swan
      • Saba Husain
      • Helena Mesa
      • Kathy Nelson
      • Andrea Hollander
      • The Animals of My Earth School, by Mildred Barya
      • Flatback Sally Country, by Rachel Custer
      • This Strange Garment, by Nicole Callihan
      • Paradise Is Jagged, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
      • Leave Me a Little Want, by Beverly Burch
      • Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
      • The Night Divers, by Melanie McCabe
      • light waves, by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
      • Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
      • Design, by Theresa Burns
      • House Bird, by Robb Fillman
      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
    • Craft Books >
      • The Strategic Poet
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
    • Anthologies >
      • What the House Knows
      • A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
  • Submissions
    • Submissions--Color Wheel Poems
    • Guidelines manuscript submission
    • FAQs
  • Titles for Review
  • Poetry Salon
  • Store
    • Poetry Books
    • Craft Books
    • Anthologies