Poetry 2019 – Atlanta Review

Table of Contents

General Submissions

- - - Equinox, Shannon Ackerman
    - By the Delta, Tobi Alfier
    - Days of Blackbird, KB Ballentine
    - Background, Daisy Bassen
    - Phantom Limb, Mark Burke
    - Stolen Lily, Rachel Aviva Burns
    - Lawn Tennis, Charles Laird Calia
    - The Wolf, Douglas Cole
    - My Cane, Robert Cooperman
    - Anne Frank’s Cat, Pat Daneman
    - Ro-Sham-Bo, Christine Darragh
    - Back Among My Own, Wendy Drexler
    - Hilel at the Golden Dragon, Louis Faber
    - Night, Verbezhichi , David Galloway
    - Humidity, Abigail Goodhart
    - I’m Happy DriveYou All the Way Home, Caroline Goodwin
    - Near twilight, Carrie Heimer
    - Grace, A.E. Hines
    - December in the South, Patricia Hooper
    - One Flesh, Rebecca Irene
    - chicago, pacific and st. paul, Dan Jacoby
    - Mercy, P M F Johnson
    - Rattlebox, Robert Lee Kendrick
    - Little River, Richard Kenefic
    - The West Wind Wears a Quiet Elegance, Louise Labé/J. Kates (trans.)
    - How to Be a Tomato, J. Adams Lagana
    - Still Life with Bison, Kathryne Lim
    - What the Tow Truck Driver Told Me, John Mancini
    - Indigo| Baptisia australis, Thea Matthews
    - Sundays in the Saddle, Barbara Mayer
    - Lazarus II, Reagan McNamee-King
    - Data Analytics Explained, Gary Mesick
    - Calabash Jug, Ann E. Michael
    - Last Light, Jory Mickelson
    - From Chile, James Miller
    - Pass, Valley, Gate, Cathedral, Devon Miller-Duggan
    - Ten Love Stories, A. Molotkov
    - Time Zones, Jo-Ann Mort
    - Rites, Elizabeth Murawski
    - Our First Time Making Love After the Funeral, Shannon Nakai
    - Last One, Donna O’Connell-Gilmore
    - Swing Low, Donna Pucciani
    - A Stick of Butter, Donna Pucciani
    - Flora & Fauna, Michele Parker Randall
    - Sienna Hills, Claudia Reder
    - Twilight Over Ankang Straightaway, Paul Reyns
    - The Last Straw, Anele Rubin
    - The Ant & the Peony, Kelly R. Samuels
    - Our Ladies of the Marsh Islands, Cliff Saunders
    - First Snow, Felicity Sheehy
    - A Friday in April, Felicity Sheehy
    - Lăowài, Andrew Slugantz
    - Find Me A Horse, William Snyder, Jr.
    - While Viewing Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party, Gary Stein
    - Words Frequently Confused: Lunar, Lunate, Phillip Sterling
    - Decorations for the New Year, Jack Stewart
    - St. John’s School, Pauline Uchmanowicz
    - Habit of Keeping, Austin Veldman
    - Ithika, J.L. Wall
    - Whooshing like winded sumo wrestlers, Marty Walsh
    - Watering Can, Lindsay Wilson
    - Eclogue: The Limbs So Full We Though They’d Break, Lindsay Wilson
    - Selective Mutism, Jennifer Wolkin
    - Toward the Raspberry Bush, Anna Zumbahlen

Dan Veach Younger Writer’s Prize

- - - Where to Find Poetry, Ivy Marie
    - Palestine is Upside Down, Rema Shbaita

Poetry 2019, judged by Dan Vera, Grand Prize Winner

- - - Suzie, Kurt Luchs

Finalists

- - - Tongue, JD Amick
    - [Letter of Love] to Ojīchan, Aozora Brockman
    - Self Portrait with Rubble, Sylvia Foley
    - A pledge to the dead requires no proof, Jennifer L. Hollis
    - Corpse, Dana Jaye
    - Medtation on a Trash Fire in My Backyard, Robert J. Keeler
    - Quantum Heart, Kathleen Kirk
    - Waiting for Mother’s Geraniums, Pingmei Lan
    - One Intimate Morning, Belle Ling
    - Nighttime in Jericho, Jo-Ann Mort
    - Stones without People and the Art of the Mulberry, Adele Ne Jame
    - Consumption of a Black Hole and Sweat Bees, John Nieves
    - Thin Places, Edward Nudelman
    - Thought Experiment, Edward Nudelman
    - Apples, Crabapples, David Rock
    - Sometimes, Briefly, Kelly Rowe
    - Spring Freeze, Joan Roberta Ryan
    - Unscrolling, Joan Roberta Ryan
    - Dead Woman’s Hollow Road, Nicole Santalucia
    - What White Lies Beneath, Heidi Seaborn
    - Prelude to a Resurrection, D.R. Shipp
    - She Zuo Bin’s Rite of Spring, Mary Spalding
    - Where We Call to Nest, Felicia Zamora
    - Turbulence: Night Flight to Cairo, Kristin Camitta Zimet