Poetry 2023

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Table of Contents

        • The Last Ride at Magic Springs Amusement Park, Sheri Flowers Anderson
        • Gifts, Pamela Annas
        • Ode to Little Brown and Gray Birds, Pam Baggett
        • Ode to This Troubled Dazzling World at Christmas, Pam Baggett
        • Portrait in Sepia, Dawn Angelicca Barcelona
        • To the Trees in North Oakland, Dawn Angelicca Barcelona
        • When We Were All There, Jessica Barksdale
        • My Dead Father and I Talk in the Bathroom, Jessica Barksdale
        • Being Chased, John Randolph Carter
        • Self-Portrait as James Baldwin, Paul Chuks
        • Late summer linger, Patricia Davis-Muffett
        • Sentinel, Stephanie Coyne DeGhett
        • Pilgrimage, Becky DeVito
        • Rain, David Dixon
        • Bogwoman on the Earth Being Found to be Round, Deborah H. Doolittle
        • First Gardener, Jennifer Gennari
        • Spring Laggards, Lynn D. Gilbert
        • Silence, Michelle Hartman
        • Intermezzo, Michael P. Hill
        • In the North, Patricia Hooper
        • Willamette August, Mission State Park, Marc Janssen
        • I Love You So Much We Will Live Forever, Dani Johnson
        • Iguana Watch; Or, a Divine Flow for Polar Fronts, Jen Karetnick
        • Vasilopita, Caroline Laganas
        • Yard, Richard Lambert
        • Heart Wood, Nylah Lyman
        • I Was a Geode, Hannah Marshall
        • Tiny Houses, Joan Mazza
        • My Brother’s Last Days Before Hospice, Michael Meyerhofer
        • Forecast on Retrospect, Michael Meyerhofer
        • Iowa Winters, Michael Meyerhofer
        • Through the Telescope, Ruth Mota
        • Of Whales and Love, Saraswati Nagpal
        • January Hymn, Saraswati Nagpal
        • Origin story: Mary, kabònn-la vyéparon, T.A. Noonan
        • Lines and Erasures, Mandira Pattnaik
        • Heat, Donna Pucciani
        • Number 38, Patrick Ramsey
        • Landscape, Kelly R. Samuels
        • Like Sisters, Elizabeth Dingmann Schneider
        • History, Samantha Schnell
        • When Day Is The Metaphor for Loneliness and Night for Company,  Ashish Kumar Singh
        • Chestnut, Joannie Stangeland
        • To My Buddhist Friends, Tim Suermondt
        • One Proletariat, Tim Suermondt
        • Repointing, David Thoreen
        • Painting, Jim Tilley
        • Gazing into a Ukiyo-e Print, Rob Vance
        • Christmas Eve with Ham and Kibbeh, Kelly Vande Plasse
        • One Snake, Kelly Vande Plasse
        • Daylight Moon in Shreds Against a Gradient of Blues, Christopher Watkins
        • Holing Up, Kari Wergeland
        • What Did the Soul Do Today?, J.P. White
        • The Walk Is On, J.P. White
        • Vertigo, Erin Wilson
        • Does Top Surgery Pass the Bechdel Test?,  Caitie L. Young
        • Year Zero, Alessio Zanelli

Dan Veach Prize for Young Poets

        • Introduction, JC Reilly

Winner

        • Prayer for Gratitude, Carter Rekoske

POETRY 2023

        • Poetry 2023 Prize Introduction, Victoria Chang

Grand Prize Winner

        • Two Poets, Kareem Tayyar

Finalists

        • Proof, Sarah Carey
        • Stone by Stone, Debra Devins
        • when san francisco ran out of roses, Page Getz Ellingerr
        •  Fairy Dust, Michelle Bonczek Evory
        • And did we love, Stacey Forbes
        • How to Kill a Mango Tree, Anyély Goméz-Dickerson
        • The Old Man Teaches Me the Beauty of the Thing, Shellie Harwood
        • Fête on the Killing Field, Shellie Harwood
        • October, Ben Hellerstein
        • Chicxulub, Brian Patrick Heston
        • Snow Light, Joann Hinz
        • To Say the Least, Maxima Kahn
        • Iokolpos,  Margaret Lee
        • Empty Cabin, Katharyn Howd Machan
        • Sexing the Pea, Meryl Natchez
        • Without You, Darker Still, Christopher Nolan
        • Thrive, John Schneider
        • New Cat, Jacquelyn Shah
        • First Intimation, Carole Stasiowski
        • Coming into Winter, Donald Wildman