Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, Ashland Poetry Press 2018
Save Our Ship
“Both laughter and tears can catch you by surprise in Barbara Ungar’s Save Our Ship. As you live with these witty, satiric, and at times wrenching poems, you will find that their humor darkens while their sadness grows strangely lighter. . . .There is an unsettling retrospective vision of what we have come to, a realization that Cassandra still walks among us telling her truth, being heard and yet being ignored. You will not be able to ignore Ungar’s wonderful poems. They are memorable. They make us think again about our lives and the brave, complicated humor that may somehow redeem us.”—Mark Jarman
Barbara Ungar’s Save Our Ship won the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize and and was published by Ashland Poetry Press in November 2019. A chapbook, EDGE, (Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered) was published by Ethel in 2020. Prior books include Immortal Medusa, named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2015; Charlotte Brontë, You Ruined My Life; and The Origin of the Milky Way, which won the Gival Prize, a silver Independent Publishers award, and a Hoffer award. A professor at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, she is also the author of Haiku in English and several chapbooks.
VIRTUAL READING: Wednesday, March 16, 7:30 p.m. EST An evening celebrating Limp Wrist‘s Barbie issue, co-edited by Denise Duhamel and Dustin Brookshire, with Julie E. Bloemeke, Suzanne Cleary, Joanna Fuhrman, Jessica Franklin, Jessica Barksdale Inclán, B. Fulton Jennes, Dion O’Reilly, L.J. Sysko, Kerry Trautman, Barbara Ungar, Sara Wagner, Stephen Zerance, and more. Save this link: Zoom
LIVE READING: Tuesday, March 29, 7:30 p.m. Red Dragon Reading Series at SUNY Oneonta My first live reading since COVID. For more information see Read Dragon Reading Series or contact Roger W. Hecht at (607) 436-3033.