my mother tells me turtles are good luck I knew a turtle who fell from a balcony whose shell cracked but did not shatter who lived for another five ten years and my mother asks my mother asks / look at those claws thin and scraping? look at that mouth pruning like mine? look at that jaw that snaps like metal on a mouse's tail? / look for a man who wants that, and keep looking keep looking keep looking keep looking keep looking keep looking keep looking keep

Mina Khan

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Congrats to our winner and finalists for the 2025 Gasher Poetry Chapbook Prize!

Congratulations to Jonathan Chan, winner of the 2025 Two Languages Book Prize for his manuscript, Azalea Dialogues 🌸

Announcing the winner of the 2025 Gasher Book Award @angelosmao.bsky.social

Keep an eye out for A White Horse is Not a Horse in spring 2027!

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Congratulations to Elijah Guerra, winner of the Gasher Book Award!

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Cover reveal: To learn to describe the animal by Guillermo Rebollo Gil.

Birds, riot police, and professional wrestlers abound. As well as an (almost) boundless enthusiasm for whatever poetry, or one’s relationship to poetry over time, makes possible: a sincere disposition to softness and sadness.

We are pleased to share the winner of the 2024 winter Poetry Chapbook Prize is Katie Jean Shinkle for the manuscript Transference.

Shinkle’s chapbook will be available Spring 2025!

Cover of the book In the Pool at the Motel on the Interstate which shows a woman on a diving board about to dive into the clouds instead of the pool.

This book had me at the cover- it screams Florida.

The poems though really hit that mid century nostalgia.

My favorite line,
"I take off all my jewelry and drop into the ocean, I take in all of the ocean like a jewelry."

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With excitement we share the winner of the Two Languages Book Prize for 2024: Mina Khan for the manuscript small creatures.

Read more about the winning title and poet on our website.

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New chapbook alert: Dictionary of Bodies by Kristyn Garza is out now! Purchase on our website: www.gasherpress.com

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