Original Face is a collection of poems by Jim Peterson. Original Face is a collection of poems by...

Poems by David Allen Case, collected by David Starkey.

Celebrating the first 10 years of Santa Barbara's Poet Laureateprogram, this book collects poems ...

Santa Barbara poets respond to the exhibit 'SWARM: A Collaboration with Bees' at Ganna Walska Lot...

Original poems by Chryss Yost, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate.

The Shoreline Voices Project, published by Gunpowder Press, showcases the poetic voices of the Ce...

I love the title of this book…and I love the innovative mischief of its poems. Let it be k...

Rarely does one encounter a book whose moral symmetry finds such eloquence and form in lines spar...

Barry Spacks (1931 - 2014), the author of eleven previous collections of poetry, taught for 21 ye...

Instead of Sadness, poems by Catherine Abbey Hodges, is the winner of the inaugural Barry Spacks ...

David Allen Case was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He earned a Bachelor's from the University of A...

Inspired by Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the trees and plants that define California's Centra...

'Is this smalltown America? A place where the air doesn't move, love is thin, beer fails nightly ...

'The poems in this book reframe the daily and habitual to reveal the strange, rich interiors of o...

Part of the bilingual Alta California Chapbook Series.'This lyrical and well-crafted chapbook has...

Published as part of the bilingual Alta California Chapbook Series.'The flowing, associative poem...

In Frangible Operas, Susan Kelly-DeWitt is a seer at the height of her formidable artistic powers...

Joshua MicKinney, winner of the first John Ridland Poetry Prize, is the author of four previous p...

In his most personal collection of poems to date, California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick writes wit...

'Empty Me Full is an invitation to intimate conversation with a wise and affectionate seeker. But...

'Learning to Drown is that rare book of poems you read over and over again, savoring its texture,...

'The poems of Holly Karapetkova do not ask for forgiveness. They willingly tackle issues of race ...

Original poems by Keith Ekiss. 'San Francisco, the millennial city: Mission and Market, bars and ...

Peculiar Fire describes the inspiration and evolution of Gunpowder Poetry during its first ten ye...

Women in a Golden State emerged during a dinnertime brainstorming session between the editors, Di...

Bilingual edition. Winner of the Alta California Chapbook Prize. 'Michelle Moncayo's poems burn s...

The Ghosts of Small Animals by Michelle Bonczek Evory was selected as winner of the 2018 Barry Sp...

'In Meghan Dunn's incisive debut, we encounter a speaker both student and teacher. These poems de...

Drinking with O'Hara is a colleciton of original poems by Glenn Freeman, published by Gunpowder P...

While You Wait is a collection of 80 Santa Barbara County Poets, edited by Santa Barbara Poet Lau...

From the opening lines of Like All Light and throughout the collection, Todd Copeland wraps these...

Susan Kelly-DeWitt's concentrations come to life as if in a studio, with watercolor washes and in...

Bilingual edition. Winner of the Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize, series editor Em...

This final collection of Dennis Schmitz's poetry resonates with his keen observations and his ref...

Readers intimately acquainted with Sandra McPherson's vivid, metaphorical voice and her wise poet...

'I admire these poems for their willingness to encounter; to give us the saw-toothed shark, the m...

'The Monday when Daylight Savings, 2021, kicked in, I was left in the dark. The morning light app...

''Mira, tu Papa is on TV, ' says a mother, coaxing her boy to imagine that Erik Estrada is his fa...

'Sor Juana reveals an exquisite alchemy-the provocative life and death of the baroque master, but...

To Give Life a Shape

Raft of Days

Posthumous Noon