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Independent Press Award 

2025 Distinguished Favorite

David Joseph

Sometimes We Can Fall Asleep Below Stars And Already Be Home

"David Joseph’s poems, at various points in my life, have been unforeseen rafts; they carried me through, effortlessly. His poems have been Joshua Trees; arcing in singularity of shape and light towards the firmament. This collection of David’s poems, Sometimes We Can Fall Asleep Below Stars and Already Be Home, is a torch. This torch casts light upon the poet’s early forays into the darkness of the blank page and the accompanying, incandescent longings of a gifted poet, writing to honor the stirrings of his soul. Like William Carlos Williams’ headlights casting over the top of a field of tall grass, David Joseph beckons for our eyes to find the fog, the firefly, the faith - to be at home."- Brian Buckley, Executive Director Southwest Native American Foundation, Teacher, Poet

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