BlazeVOX Authors Honored in the 2025 Big Other Readers’ Choice Awards

Written By Geoffrey Gatza


We are thrilled to share some wonderful news from the literary community: three BlazeVOX [books] titles have been recognized in the 2025 Big Other Readers’ Choice Awards, curated by John Madera.

Most notably, Jerome Sala’s Glop has been named a finalist for this year’s award—an exciting and well-deserved recognition of Sala’s singular voice and enduring contribution to contemporary poetry.

In addition, two BlazeVOX titles have received Honorable Mention:

Geoffrey Gatza, Self Geofferential
Mary Newell, Entwine

We are deeply proud to see these books recognized alongside such a vibrant field of innovative writing. The Big Other Readers’ Choice Awards celebrate bold, boundary-pushing work, and it is an honor for BlazeVOX authors to be included.

👉 Read the full announcement here:
https://bigother.com/2026/05/04/announcing-the-finalists-for-the-2025-big-other-readers-choice-award/

We extend our warmest congratulations to Jerome, Mary, and all of this year’s finalists and honorees. And many thanks to Big Other and John Madera for their continued support of adventurous literature.

Stay tuned! We’ll also be sharing video readings from our featured authors in the coming weeks as part of the awards celebration.

—BlazeVOX [books]

Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org

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