Indigo Moor and Jennifer K. Sweeney featured in Second Tuesday Poetry

The Modesto-Stanislaus Poetry Center will be featuring Indigo Moor, author of Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something (Backwaters Press, 2021), and Jennifer K. Sweeney, author of Foxlogic, Fireweed (Backwaters Press, 2020), in their Second Tuesday Poetry reading event. The remote event is … Continue reading Indigo Moor and Jennifer K. Sweeney featured in Second Tuesday Poetry

Announcing the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Winner for 2019

  UNP is proud to announce the winner of the Backwaters Press Prize in Poetry for 2019: Jennifer Sweeney of Redlands, California and her manuscript Foxlogic, Fireweed. Her collection follows a sequence of five physical and emotional terrains—floodplain, coast, desert, … Continue reading Announcing the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Winner for 2019

From the Desk of John Sibley Williams: Don’t Assume It’s All True

John Sibley Williams serves as editor of the Inflectionist Review and works as a literary agent. He is the author of four poetry collections, including As One Fire Consumes Another, which won the Orison Poetry Prize; Disinheritance; and Controlled Hallucinations. He lives in Portland, Oregon. He is … Continue reading From the Desk of John Sibley Williams: Don’t Assume It’s All True