Zone 3 Press
Welcome to Zone 3 Press, the literary press of Austin Peay State University. Our mission is to promote the work of emerging writers and to develop an audience for contemporary poetry and prose.
Our titles are available from the Zone 3 store and Small Press Distribution.
Zone 3 Press is thrilled to announce the winner of the 2011 Creative Nonfiction Book Award. Lia Purpura selected Nicole Walker for the award, which is accompanied by a $1,000 prize. Walker is author of the poetry collection This Noisy Egg, and recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona State University. Quench Your Thirst With Saltwill be released in spring 2013.
Runner-up is Kat Meads.
Finalists are Erik Anderson, Christopher Buckley, Mark Brazaitis, Priscilla Kinter, Gaynell Gavin, Gail Waldstein, Natania Rosenfeld, Lynn Veach Sadler, Sarah Fawn Montgomery, William Connolly, Jennifer Sinor, Joe Bonomo, Gary Fincke, and Katy Masuga.
Many thanks to all who entered the contest.
Sincerely,
The Editors
Zone 3 Press
"Rendered with acute beauty, tenderness and measured dignity of expression, Amanda Auchter¹s debut collection breathes life into her speakers and themes: a woman in a coma, biblical figures, the divine and the earthly, an unborn child, being and nothingness, a daughter given up for adoption, the body and the soul, a hung-over unwed mother. These poems radiate insistent light, pure lyric courage and unflagging compassion."
—Amy Gerstler
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"John Pursley's striking debut is a collection of meticulously orchestrated lyric mediations, very confident in its music, and recalling Larry Levis and Charles Wright in the vividly rendered ways in which leitmotifs are obsessively shuffled in order to bring the poems to large and abiding reckonings. This is an ambitious book of abundant promise..."
--David Wojahn
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"Kate Gleason’s first book, Measuring the Dark, has the force of a full life behind it: a mature intelligence and gravitas gleaned through long experience. Gleason exhibits a sure handling of metaphor–both extended conceits and interlocking analogies— and a sure handling of the new science, from quantum physics to string theory, finding in the scientific world analogies for the human condition. Whether writing expansive narratives, layered with personal and political history, or tightly controlled lyrics with dazzling metaphysical conceits, Gleason measures love and loss on earth, set against the darkness and empty space that surrounds us, lit up, moment to moment, by the memory of those who moved us to words."
—Neil Shepard, editor of Green Mountains Review
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"What a surprising and exciting debut this is! Leigh Anne Couch's poems are a completely natural amalgam of the ordinary and the fantastical, as if our
own zone of consciousness were repeatedly pierced by another, resulting in a kind of dual perception that's both weird and completely logical. Thus the world in which these poems form and flower is stranger and more dangerous than our own familiar one, but also more winged and beautiful."
—Chase Twichell
"In Andrew Kozma's poems, the world is intriguingly askew: 'The desert sky
opens like the mouth of a dying fish.' Cafés undress, walls merge with air,
and rooms speak, sometimes even returning one's gaze, projecting strange
images that will shadow you like portraits whose eyes follow you around the room and even into the street. Kozma is at his best evoking those odd
moments of disorientation when the stuff of your life transforms, seeming to
submerge into a matrix of dream—'those moments air becomes solid and you stare through ice / like a man in a glacier.'"
—J. Allyn Rosser
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"David Till has produced in Oval a collection that encompasses the full
circle of experience.... The 58 poems take a wide range of forms and
lengths, including everything from the expressionistic, fragmentary "About
Trout" ('...Go stardust / One goes off hot inside / yr dream hand'), to the
joyous occasional piece "Two Poems for their Wedding": ('I could say: dogwood
are like moonlight, / or like wedding gowns in the dark church; / but to me,
/ they are cold banks of snow in the mountains...') The disparate quality of
the poems is offset by Till's consistently gentle, grounded sensibility...."
—Maria Browning, The Nashville Scene
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