Confessional

by Azula Margaret Dubbs Jaggar

Winner of the 2025 Florence Kahn Memorial Award, this poetry collection was selected by judge Anthony Robinson in the College Undergraduate Poetry Competition, sponsored by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies. In sonnets, couplets, and free verse, the poet examines love and loss through the lenses of art, mythology, and religion.

39 pages, Paperback

Published July 7, 2025

Reviews

[Amy · Rating 5 out of 5]

In CONFESSIONAL, Azula Margaret Jaggar paints an Eve who saves departing love from total loss, cradling her remaining ribs. She deftly portrays intimacy, sacrifice, and sensuality through ekphrastic eyes both with and without pupils. Jaggar's ready wit gifts us a ripe fig, fed on the sting and wasp of a relationship that serves to grow new iterations of love.
-Amy Baskin, author of NIGHT HAG and SKULL