Connecting Poetry & Community

Debut collection from Julia C. Alter and winner of the 2023 Sundog Poetry Book Award.

“I was drawn to this book for its singular voice and remarkable tonal control. Each poem has an intensity and a sense of risk that makes the stakes immediately feel palpable and real. Some Dark Familiar is filled with poems that are hard to turn away from, and the feeling it evokes lingers long after each reading.”

-Matthew Olzmann, author of Constellation Route, and final judge of the 2023 Sundog Poetry Book Award

Winner of the 2022 Sundog Poetry Book Award

Fire Index measures the interior life of a survivor against the world she creates through her own fractured marriage, motherhood, and religion. Told in fragments, using hybrid and persona, Breitland confronts the trauma of her brother’s death, her father’s abuse, and the complicated relationships to her sister, mother, and womanhood. She reckons with her complicit, and often dishonest life, and how walking out from the burning construct demands her full attention, forgiveness, responsibility.

Recent winner of the Sundog Poetry Book Award, selected by Vievee Francis in 2021

This collection of poems by Michael Fleming was selected as the finalist in the 2021 Sundog Poetry Book Award by poet Vievee Francis. The book has been published by Green Writers Press.

Michael Fleming was born in San Francisco, raised in Wyoming, and has lived and learned and worked all around the world, from Thailand, England, and Swaziland to Berkeley, New York City, and now Brattleboro, Vermont. He’s been a teacher, a grad student, a carpenter, and always a writer; for the past fifteen years he has edited literary anthologies for W. W. Norton. (You can see some of Fleming’s own writing at: www.dutchgirl.com/foxpaws )

the blue-collar sun by Lucas Farrell of Townshend, Vermont. The winner of the 2020 Sundog Poetry Book Award for a 1st or 2nd manuscript by a Vermont-based poet, selected by final judge, Mary Ruefle. Cover art by Emily Mason.