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Congratulations to Kyla Houbolt on the launch of Mapless, the winner of SHINE's "Come As You Are" Book Prize! See the description below, and pick up your copy on any Amazon marketplace.  Mapless, by American poet Kyla Houbolt, is a collection for both the wanderer and the guide -- with poetry that speaks to the core, and poses questions we need not feel obligated to answer. Houbolt's Mapless is the winner of the 2026 SHINE poetry series "Come As You Are" book prize.
-- Advance Praise for Mapless: "The first sleight-of-hand I ever learned was how to make a toothpick disappear, by way of a little piece of hidden scotch tape and some patter. Kyla Houbolt’s poems in Mapless work a similar magic: woven in & through the ordinary, they are possessed of a guileless voice whose levity and directness of address belie the book’s sly treatment of serious themes, too, from alcoholism and climate change to intractable political gridlock and the “horrible numbers” we live with daily. Houbolt’s poems harness the imagination hopefully, carving out a collectivity however flawed it, or we, might be: “We’re all magical trailer trash / setting the world to rights / or on fire, / whichever comes first.” I love being in the ambit of Houbolt’s “we” — even if the tape unsticks and the trick fails, there’ll always be sunlight." -Tom Snarsky, Author of MOUNTEBANK Comments are closed.
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SHINE - International Poetry Series
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From the international poetry community, we have a "luxury of stars," as Sylvia Plath might say, and it is SHINE's honor to provide a home for their words with the online Spotlight series as well as SHINE Quarterly. Click on the logo above to learn more. And...keep writing, keep shining!
In poetry, Samantha Terrell, EIC SYLVIA PLATH
Stars Over the Dordogne Stars are dropping thick as stones into the twiggy
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