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.
We are pleased to announce Nancy Eimers has selected Karen Skolfield’s manuscript Frost in the Low Areas as the 2012 winner of the Zone 3 First Book Award for Poetry. We would also like to congratulate runner-up Sarah Blackman for her manuscript Fourthspace.
Finalists are Margaret Mackinnon, Dale Dewoody, Trent Busch, Brianna Noll, Martin Arnold, Ben Pryor, Angel Torres, Dawn Lonsinger, Mark McKain, Erin Malone, Melissa Tucky, Bruce Sager, Dan O’Brien, Sawnie Morris, and Emily Puhler-Terino.
Semi-finalists are Missy-Marie Montgomery, Marc Harshman, Linda Strever, Sarah Sousa, Catherine Abbey-Hodges, Pauline Uchmanowicz, Stephen Lackaye, Christopher Todd Matthews, Angie Hogan, Chrissy Kolaya, Lawrence Wray, LaWanda Walters, Mg Roberts, Randolph Thomas, Michael Schmeltzer, Kevin McLellan, Talia Bloch, Mark Wisniewski, Sass Brown, Gary Leising, Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis, Lauren Goodwin Slaughter, and Melissa Cundieff-Pexa.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone who participated in this year’s competition.
Sincerely,
The Editors
Zone 3 Press
"Part affecting memoir, part lyric meditation on water, part cultural critique, but finally about all that is unquenchable in the human experience, Nicole Walker has created a book that is truly sui generis. By turns wry, elegiac, and always elegant in its precision and force, Walker investigates all that is contradictory and curious in the micro climate of her immediate family and the macro climate of Utah to create not a dry treatise, not a windless flight of experimental prose, but a natural history of thirst in all its manifestations, at once compulsively readable and intensely personal."
- Robin Hemley
Available May 2013. Pre-order now!
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"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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