“ten-cent flower & other territories” receives the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

Apr 28

Written By Ash Good

First Matter Press author charity e. yoro was recognized at Literary Arts’ 2025 Oregon Book Awards with the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry for ten-cent flower & other territories (2024). Judges included Mary-Alice Daniel, Brian Teare, Mai Der Van.

I collaborated as designer, production consultant and contributing editor on this poetry collection that explores what is lost in lineage, translation, transaction, and seeks reclamation through mapping. “Through etymologies of place names and monuments and godheads to navigating complex geographies of mother/daughter, lover/other, colonizer/colonized; from ledger of transgressions to passage through birth canal, with quiet defiances against autocorrect, capitalization. It is a collection of constellation, origin story, futures,” said charity e. yoro of her debut poetry collection.

Cover art by Portland collage artist Lara Rouse.

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Ash Good

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This space is where I free myself to meaning-make in my own aesthetic to document and unpack concepts, experiments and experiences that are important to me. Read more about my praxis here. For brand curation and book design click over to ashgood.design. For ritual, movement, meditation, writing circles, toys and pop-up experiences to play with your intuition, visit highpriestesses.com. If you’d like to know more, my full bio is here.

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“ten-cent flower & other territories” receives the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

First Matter Press author charity e. yoro was recognized at Literary Arts’ 2025 Oregon Book Awards with the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry for ten-cent flower & other territories (2024). Judges included Mary-Alice Daniel, Brian Teare, Mai Der Van.

Cover art by Portland collage artist Lara Rouse.

ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Blood Tree Literature, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, recipient of Literary Arts' 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship for publishers, where they uplift first-time publishing poets and genre-expanding writers.

As an editor, creative director & designer, ash collaborates with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.

“ten-cent flower & other territories” receives the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry

First Matter Press author charity e. yoro was recognized at Literary Arts’ 2025 Oregon Book Awards with the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry for ten-cent flower & other territories (2024). Judges included Mary-Alice Daniel, Brian Teare, Mai Der Van.

Cover art by Portland collage artist Lara Rouse.

“to want is to want a body & to get is an opening” in Blood Tree Literature

Jeff’s Bacchanalia at after/time Collective Gallery

ash good is the author of us clumsy gods (What Books Press, 2022) & four previous writing collections. Their poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net & appears in Faultline, Cimarron Review, 45th Parallel, Chautauqua, Bird Coat Quarterly, Blood Tree Literature, Voicemail Poems & others.

They are co-founding editor of First Matter Press, recipient of Literary Arts' 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship for publishers, where they uplift first-time publishing poets and genre-expanding writers.

As an editor, creative director & designer, ash collaborates with small presses, journals, literary organizations, universities & independent authors.