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10/30/2024

The winner of the 2024 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest is Aida Zilelian for her manuscript Dissonance!

09/21/2024

The brilliant poet and humanist Sandra McPherson has passed (1943-2024). She was a favorite student of Elizabeth Bishop and went on to become an excellent professor, inspiring generations of poets and scientists during her tenure at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and at the University of California at Davis.
Her interests were wide ranging and included jazz, blues, quilts, Japanese aesthetics and the miracles of life that take place all around us. Sandra and her husband poet Walter Pavlich founded Swan Scythe Press in 2000. Here we share her poem “Timing” which won the 2019 Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize judged by Marilyn Chin.

Sandy you are missed!

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sandra-mcpherson

05/02/2024

Now available, Gail Wronsky's chapbook Some Disenfranchised Evening, winner of the 2023 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest!

Praise for Gail Wronsky's poetry:
“A master of the lyric, a visionary never far from the complicated wondrous relations between world and imagination, body and mind, Gail Wronsky is one of our most indispensable poets.”
— Gillian Conoley, author of Notes from the Passenger

“The stakes are high, each poem walking the edge of a decision to live and love another day…Here, the lyric form is revivified.”
— Diane Seuss, author of Modern Poetry and winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize

https://www.swanscythepress.com/books/some_disenfranchised_evening.html

03/19/2024

Swan Scythe Press 2024 Poetry Chapbook Contest is open for submissions!
Entry fee: $18. Deadline is June 15 (postmark). Winner receives $200 and 25 perfect-bound chapbooks.
For full guidelines, visit www.swanscythepress.com and swanscythepress.submittable.com/submit.
The 2023 winner is Gail Wronsky for Some Disenfranchised Evening.

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