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Cloudbank 5 is now available. Individual copies are $8 each.
Subscriptions are $15 for two issues.
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We are now accepting poems and short prose for Cloudbank 6.
For contest guidelines ($200 prize) click here. For general submission guidelines click here.

Cloudbank 5 Prize-winning Poem
"Snowshoeing Mt. Tom" by James K. Zimmerman
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Cloudbank 4
"Mirrors and Windows"

Poems by B.Z. Niditch, P.T.
Shaw, Colette Tennant, Kurt
Brown and Jan Bottiglieri.
Short prose by Ralph Salisbury
and Anthony DeGregorio.
Reviews of Aspects of
Robinson: Homage to Weldon
Kees, All That Gorgeous
Pitiless Song
and God, Seed:
Poetry and Art About the
Natural World.


Prize-winning Poem
"Cinderella, later" by Francine Witte
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Poets and writers in this issue
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$8.00
$8.00
Cloudbank 2
"The Raw and the Cooked"

Poems by Penelope Schott,
Karen Holmberg, y madrone,
and many others. Reviews of
Starting from Anywhere by
Lex Runciman and Light from
a Bullet Hole: Poems New
and Selected
by Ralph
Salisbury.

Prize-winning Poem “Everything You Needed to Know You Learned at the High School Dance” by Amy Miller
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Poets and writers in this issue
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Green Diver

Peter Sears


“This is a shifting, whimsical
voice—which never loses its
antic charm, even in the face of
harrowing circumstance.
Gregory Corso meets
Salvador Dali. Check it out.”

Joseph Millar
$18.00
$14.00


Heaven of the Moment
John C. Morrison

John C. Morrison is a poetic
naturalist: he ponders the silent
correspondences between the
natural world and the self.
He shows us how to adore the
brimming promise of a lived
life.”

—David Biespiel

My Problem with the Truth
Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson'sMy
Problem with the Truth
is a
book of largess and celebration.
Its poems rise out of a quality of
attention—to feeling, thought,
and, above all, language—that
both prompts and invites similar
focus, similar absorption, from
readers.”
Lex Runciman

$12.95
$9.00

Tour - New & Selected Poems
Peter Sears

Peter SearsTour is a
delight—from the watercolor
blushes for loved ones,
through the Monty Python
self-conversations in
emergencies, up to Sears
copping a feel off the ineffable.”
Jack Myers


China Basin
Clemens Starck

"I have been crazy about Clem
Starck
's poetry ever since I
read it a few years ago while
picking him as the winner of
the Oregon Book Award. I'm
not alone in particularly
cherishing poems by people
who work with their hands.
Carpenters, printers and
factory workers are a fresh
and vital antidote to the
myriad of academic poets.
Cheers for Clem!"
Carolyn Kizer
$13.95
$10.95




Journeyman's Wages

Clemens Starck

"Some truly extraordinary
poems here. Easily, gracefully,
right up there with the best
work being done today."

Jim Harrison

$8.00
Cloudbank 3
"From Idea to Image"

Poems by Lawson Fusao
Inada, Dennis Schmitz,
Paulann Petersen, Timothy
Geiger and many others.
Short prose by Trina Gaynon,
Robert Peake and Ron Talney.
Reviews of Rolling the Bones
by Christopher Buckley,
Fault Lines by Tim Hunt and
Moist Meridian by Henry
Hughes.

Prize-winning Poem
"Emptiness" by Steve Dieffenbacher
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Poets and writers in this issue
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Cloudbank 1
"Touch the Universe"

Eighty pages of poetic bliss.
Poems and short prose by Vern
Rutsala, Christopher Buckley,
Jennifer Richter and many
others. Reviews of Vertigo by
Martha Ronk and Light Here,
Light There
by Alexander
Long.


Prize-winning Poem
“Heaven in the Bad Borough”
by Sara Lier (Click here)

Poets and writers in this issue
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$8.00
$12.95

Out of Town

Lex Runciman

In Out of Town, “memory
and repetition drive Lex
Runciman
’s moral investiga-
tions of a world —our world
— which he suspects may be
an inappropriate place to
investigate morally. But what
other world is there?”
Andrew Hudgins


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Millennial Spring:
Eight New Oregon Poets


“This is how poetry should
feel—a community of warm,
inviting voices, a circle well-
spoken, fierily-lit friends. ...
Bravo to Cloudbank Books for
sharing these voices—and to
Oregon, that sacred domain.”
Naomi Shihab Nye

$11.95
$12.95
Solar Prominence
Kevin Craft

“The intelligence, the imagina-
tion, the quick humor in Solar
Prominence
all point in the
same direction: toward the
poem as a made thing, a thing
of light, crafted, the way craft,
through its various art,
transforms the generalities into
the specifics of magic.”
Stanley Plumly


Insects of South Corvallis

Charles Goodrich

“Spiders, sow bugs, aphids,
house flies, cabbage moths,
stinging nettles—not to mention
beans, peach pits, and the
pockets of warm air lingering
under willows—Goodrich's
concern for all of nature,
including us, is extraordinary,
and absolutely genuine.”
 Ginger Andrews

$12.95
$12.95


A Bride of Narrow
Escape

Paulann Petersen

"We follow the childhood and
the teen years with their drama
of sexual awakening into the
final section where poems
return to the late present and
the ongoing romance of
married love."
Madeline DeFrees



Textbook Illustrations of the Human Body
George Estreich

George Estreich is an
engaging, alert, intelligent,
playful, and exhilarating poet,
and his Textbook Illustrations
of the Human Body
is a
superb debut.”
Michael McFee

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$12.95