Poet

Jami Macarty is the author of The Long Now That Conditions Permit, winner of the Test Site Poetry Prize and a 2025 University of Nevada Press title, and The Minuses, a Center for Literary Publishing Mountain/West Poetry Series title and winner of the 2020 New Mexico/Arizona Book Award. Macarty’s four chapbooks of poetry, include The Whole Catastrophe (No. 38, Vallum Chapbook Series, 2024), a 2025 Finalist for the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Instinctive Acts (Nomados Literary Publishers, 2018), Mind of Spring (No. 22, Vallum Chapbook Series, 2017), winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award, and Landscape of The Wait (Finishing Line Press, 2017).

More information under each book’s title and cover below.

The Long Now Conditions Permit

Publisher: University of Nevada Press, December 2025
Awards: 2023 Winner of the Test Site Poetry Prize
Judges: Claudia Keelan, Don Revell, Sasha Steenson, & Ronaldo Wilson
Endorsements: Claudia Keelan, Donald Revell, & Ronaldo Wilson
Recognition:
Finalist for 2023 Test Site Poetry Series
Finalist for 2023 Brick Books open reading
Finalist for 2022 Brick Books open reading
Finalist for 2021 Test Site Poetry Series
Poems from the Collection:
Colorado Review 50.3: “On Hill’s Slant”
Concision Poetry Journal 2.2: “Before, a Study of Suspension”
Interim Poetry & Poetics 41.1: “Harbinger,” “Of,” “Seeker,” etc.
Interim Poetry & Poetics 39.1: Five Poems
Jet Fuel Review #23: “Splitting Lesson”
Ocean State Review 12: “Asterisk to What Branches in the Perfect …”
Puerto del Sol 58.1: “Watching Fall” & “Winter’s Change of Self”
Redivider 19.2: “The Fourth Leaf”
Resistance: Rage in the Age of #MeToo: “Autumn in the East, the Pilot”
Tinfish 22—Inarticulate Futures: “I am walking without looking”
Vallum 20.2: “Late afternoon autumn, a trembled alternative”
Vallum 19.1: “Is Occurring” (nominated for a 2022 Pushcart Prize!)
Vallum 18.2: “Lustrous Fugitive”
VOLT 26: “Across the Path That Is Not Mine” & “October Effect”
Interviews: Poet to Poet w/Radha Marcum: Enacting Experience
Reading Recordings:
Beyond Baroque
DMQ Quarterly Review Virtual Salon reading
Collected Works Bookstore
Vallum magazine Poem-of-the-Week: “Lustrous Fugitive”
Wild and Precious Life Series
Reviews: w/anticipation

The Whole Catastrophe

Publisher: Vallum Chapbook Series, September 2024
Awards: No. 38 in Vallum Chapbook Series
Recognition: Finalist for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award
Judges: Kevin Spenst and MA|DE
Poems from the Chapbook: Interim 41.1: “Whole Catastrophe”
Interviews: “An Inked Shorthand of Marks”w/ T. Liem for Vallum
Reading Recordings:
H of a Night (I’m @ 38.51 ish)
POG Arts of Tucson
Reviews: None in print

The Minuses

Publisher: Center for Literary Publishing, March 2020
Awards:
2019 Selected as annual Moutain/West Poetry Series title
2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award – POETRY ARIZONA!
Endorsements: Gillian Conoley, Claudia Keelan, & Daphne Marlatt
Recognition (Finalist, Semi-finalist):
Finalist, Robert Kroetsch Award
Finalist, Carolina Wren Press
Finalist, Kore Press
Finalist, The Lexi Ruditsky First Book Prize, Persea Books
Finalist, Lake Merritt Poetry Prize, Omnidawn Publishing
Finalist, The Hillary Gravendyk Prize, Inlandia Institute
Semi-finalist Octopus Books
Semi-finalist Elixir Press
Real Good Poem Prize Winner: “The Minuses” selected by Kiki Petrosino
Poems from the Collection:
Arc Poetry Magazine: “Street of Beggars”
Beloit Poetry Journal: “By Virtue of And”
Blood Orange Review: “Territory of Men”
Contemporary Verse 2: “Through the Branches,” “On the Roof”
Drunken Boat: “Monsoon Desert”
EOAGH: “Endangered Species”
Event: “Family”
Golden Handcuffs Review: “Same Season”
Grain: “Subway”
Interim Poetry & Poetics: “Door Ratio,” “Reverse of Shadow”
Poetry Daily: “Thin Attachment”
Poetry Pacific: Five poems (reprints)
Vallum: “Helicopter” & “Nor’easter”
Verse Daily: “By Virtue of And” (reprint)
Volt: “Sway” & “Dedication”
Interviews:
The Artisanal Writer: About the Craft of Writing and Reading
Colorado Review: “She acknowledges the circle./There is no obvious …”
rob mclennan’s 12 or 20 (second series) questions
Susan Gillis’s Concrete & River: Birds Don’t Shame
Reading Recordings:
POG Arts of Tucson
Cultivating Voices Reading
Walt Whitman Birthplace Reading
Reviews:
CLMP’s 2020 Year-End Roundup by Sean Thomas Dougherty
Interim 36.5 by Lacy Aul (pen name: Claudia Keelan)
Vallum 17:2 “SPACE” by Bill Neumire
Entropy by Holly Mason
Notes on The Minuses by Paul E Nelson
rob mclennan on his blog

Instinctive Acts

Publisher: Nomados Literary Publishing, October 2018 (out of print)
Awards: Selected by Meredith & Peter Quartermain, publishers
Recognition: No. 49 in the chapbook series
Poems from the Chapbook:
Descant 57: “Looking Down From The Roof Is An Instinctive Act”
Situate Magazine: “On the 135” & “Daughter of Earth”
Interview: None in print
Reviews: subTerrain #81 by Kevin Spenst
Readings: Dominion Reading Series # 16

Mind of Spring

Publisher: Vallum Chapbook Award, July 2018 (OOP; available digitally)
Awards: Winner 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award
Recognition:
Finalist, Anomalous Press
Finalist, dancing girl press
Finalist, Miel micropress
Poems from the Chapbook: None in print
Interviews:
Vallum Year in Review
Vallum Featured Interview on the making of Mind of Spring
Readings & Recordings: Dominion Reading Series
Reviews: None in print

Landscape of The Wait

Publisher: Finishing Line Press, June 2017
Awards: Publication in the chapbook series
Recognition: Winner, JMWW Claudia Emerson Poetry Chapbook Award
Poems from the Chapbook:
The Paddock Review: “Aground”
Grain: “1st Dream Since” & “2nd Dream Since”
Slant: “Grounded”
Interviews: None available
Reviews:
Drizzle Review by Michelle Mitchell-Foust
Panoply by Andrea Walker
Reading Recordings: Dominion Readings Series #11