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Poetry 2025

Table of Contents

General Contributors

      • The last crab, Debmalya Bandyopadhyay
      • Menses Prayer, Kelly Brice Baron
      • A Cello, Longing for Sentience, Terry Belew
      • What is My Lineage? Brionna Bennett
      • It flits about a lightbulb, Margaret Bleichman
      • What the River Keeps, Bethany Bruno
      • Where I Live, Chris Bullard
      • Li Po took the overnight train, Johnny Cordova
      • Alverdia Walks with the Fireflies, Todd Davis
      • Body Apology, Joanne Durham
      • Reading Robert Wood Lynn Under the Web and Thinking of Home,  Deron Eckert
      • Golden State, Marie-Louise Eyres
      • At heal of evening, Michael J. Galko
      • Taking Refuge in a Cluster of Birches, Ann Marie Gamble
      • Coppola in the Philippines, Kevin Grauke
      • Gas Station, Andrey Gritsman
      • Stone Fruit, Ken Haas
      • Prometheus in Therapy, Charles Jensen
      • Table Scraps, Michal “MJ” Jones
      • Wolf Lichen Quatern, David Koehn
      • Seed Salvage, Robert Manaster
      • Facetiming home at 8:15 a.m. every day, Mayank Manchanda
      • Mildred & Giuseppe, Daniel Thomas Moran
      • Brushstroke, Florence Murry
      • Tercets with Cottonwood and Heatwave, Kathy Nelson
      • Quasi-Nocturne b/w Sonnet (7” Series #7), John Nieves
      • The Thing in the Throat, Jessie Raymundo
      • The Mirror Mouths a Name You Wore, Jessie Raymundo
      • A Case Study on the Anti-Hero Hero, Kelsey Smoot
      • Pamplemousse, Mikaela Stiner
      • Something Bridge, Adam Tavel
      • i went to lunch with my boy-friend’s grandparents and talked about trapping crawfish, Rose Marie Torres
      • Imagine the Mountains, Kelly Vande Plasse
      • June, Erin Wilson
      • My Sister Wants to Believe Wendy Wisner

Dan Veach Prize for Younger Poets
Introduction, JC Reilly

Winner

                  Arrival, Keira Deer

POETRY 2025
List of Prize Winners

Poetry 2025 Prize Introduction, Jose Hernandez Diaz

Grand Prize Winner
On Worms and Other Things, Bridget Rohde

Finalists

      • Perhaps Blue Breaks Smaller, Laura Apol
      • Makeshift Gene Therapy, Adriana Beltrano
      • Fugolsang, Zachary Bos
      • Flesh, Clara Collins
      • Stone From Afghanistan, Jennifer Elmore
      • Kissing An Old Man, Colleen Flannery
      • Elegy for Lead Guitar, Ben Gunsberg
      • Under Seige, Ahmad Ibsais
      • Oak in Wildcat Canyon, Kathryn Jordan
      • New Orleans, Maisie Kirn
      • Dawn Moonset, Sunset Crater, Mel Konner
      • The Bone Orchard at the Edge of the Sky, Renee Dionne Mies
      • Growing Up in Traverse, Renee Dionne Mies
      • Cappadocia, Maxwell Minckler
      • Glass Frog, Alicia Rebecca Myers
      • Homeland Security, Jed Myers
      • The Crossing, Daniel Carden Nemo
      • The Levellers, Bar Reddin
      • We Perish in Every Scenario, Stephanie Saywell
      • Fibonacci Fingernails, Sara Shea
      • No One Wants to Read Poems About How the Sky Is Falling
        Until the Sky Falls, Darius Simpson
      • Levee, Lee Stockdale
      • Earth Will Go On, Diana Woodcock
      • Late Spring, Mark Yakich

Book Review

      • In the Thaw of Day by Cynthia Good, Nicole Yurcaba