Dear Dusk by Stephen Knauth
Stephen Knauth’s poems are unpretentious depictions of the poet’s life, punctuated with exhilarating flashes of transcendence: “A freight crosses the […]
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Books
The Silent Conversation by Bruce Bond
Published by Cloudbank Books, The Silent Conversation is the Editor’s Choice for the Vern Rutsala Book Prize for 2024. “In
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Midnight at the Chevron Station by Michael Malan
“In his new volume, Michael Malan’s lyrics and flash fiction perform acrobatic marvels wherein the real, magical, and surreal collide, yet they dance together…“
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Everywhere, Everywhere by Jeffrey Bean
Published by Cloudbank Books, Everywhere, Everywhere is the winner of the Vern Rutsala Book Prize for 2024. “The poems of
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La Sirena: A Novella in Verse by Maurya Simon
Published by Cloudbank Books in 2024, La Sirena: A Novella in Verse was a finalist for the Vern Rutsala Book
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Constellation by H. L. Hix
Constellation by H. L. Hix is the. Winner of the 2023 Vern Rutsala Book Prize. “A brilliant and beautiful book
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The Scarecrow Alibis
Denver Butson
THE SCARECROW ALIBIS – “A Psalm for the Dispossessed” When “the scarecrow” first came to him in 2011, Denver Butson
The Scarecrow Alibis
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Deep Territory by Michael Malan
Poems by Michael Malan, published by Blue Light Press. These are visionary poems, and the world they envision is a shapeshifting realm where trees speak and rivers dream, where stones sing and the moon is “a broken compass in the heart of memory.”
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Book of Years by Doug Ramspeck
Praise for Book of Years The poems in Doug Ramspeck’s Book of Years explore, as one carefully crafted lineation effect
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Any Day That Ends Here by Christopher Buckley
Any Day That Ends Here, Poems After Vallejo, a chapbook by Christopher Buckley. César Vallejo was born in northern Peru
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Long Voyage Gathering Light by John Kooistra
Winner of the Vern Rutsala Book Prize 2021 Praise for Long Voyage Gathering Light from Dan Bourne Every line in
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Tarzan’s Jungle Plane by Michael Malan
Has Tarzan abandoned his idyllic life in the jungle? Yes and no. He’s made quite a lot of money on his
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Seducing the Asparagus Queen by Amorak Huey
Winner of the 2018 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize Bob Hicok describes the poems in Seducing the Asparagus Queen as “bright
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The Far Republics by Christopher Buckley
Praise for The Far Republics The Far Republics is expansive—an exuberant sensibility, but rueful. The public poems relish detail—all the
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Overland Park by Michael Malan
Overland Park is the first book by Michael Malan, editor of Cloudbank. His poems and flash fiction have been published
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Towline by Holly Karapetkova
Holly Karapetkova is the Winner of the 2016 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize from Cloudbank Books. Author Sandra Beasley describes the
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Insects of South Corvallis by Charles Goodrich
Charles Goodrich honed his eye for the details of nature in his long career as a professional gardener. His poems
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Bunch of Animals by Henry Hughes
Bunch of Animals is the fourth book of poems by Henry Hughes, who has also published a memoir, Back Seat
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