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Poetry 2024

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General Contributors

      • Yellow Study,  Shay Alexi
      • Poética, Alfredo Antonio Arevalo
      • The Dog Considers Solitude, Rebecca Baggett
      • Pigeons, Jessa Brown
      • Owl Mother, Rachel Aviva Burns
      • At the theme park, I think about dying., Adrienne Burris
      • The Death of the Parrotlet, Duane Caylor
      • Nor’Easter, Jackie Chicalese
      • wishlist, Amanda Conover
      • Jilted, Daun Daemon
      • Regarding Sappho’s Fragments, Gregory Emilio
      • Some Days You Are, Lily Anna Erb
      • Favoritism By Default, John S. Eustis
      • Day 2: The Jog to Faro Al Gianicolo, Chapman Hood Frazier
      • Chosen, Daniel Ginsburg
      • When I Think About There Ever Being Someone Else, Phil Goldstein
      • Parallel Connection, Peggy Heitmann
      • I Am Cephalopod, Angie Hexum
      • Offering, Don Hogle
      • Bottle Tree, Scott T. Hutchison
      • What Lands Unbidden, Letitia Jiju
      • If This Is the Last Day, Helga Kidder
      • Wind, Kathryn Kimball
      • The First Time, Ashley Seitz Kramer
      • Deer Time, StarShield Lortie
      • Storm, Michelle Matz
      • Old Agnostic’s Praise Song, Sara McAulay
      • Negative Space, Laura McCoy
      • Redtail, Joyce Meyers
      • As if they have been waiting for me, Carol Milkuhn
      • The Morning Light (after Cavafy), Michael Montlack
      • bobby and billy and buddy and ben, Michael Montlack
      • Tundra Swans, Michael S. Moos
      • Ringo Starr, Dion O’ Reilly
      • In the Sequoias, Beth Paulson
      • Rescues, Kathryn Ridall
      • Squid Jigging, Susan Shaw Sailer
      • Chihuahua in Prati, Julia Salem
      • Trauma Bonds, Melissa Holm Shoemake
      • A Guard at the Golden Gate Bridge Contemplates the Installation of Netting, Allen Stein
      • In a November Garden, Jane Stuart
      • A man holding a rope tied to a boy underneath the ice, Sean Sutherland
      • How the Love Story Ends, Terry Ann Thaxton
      • Coyote’s Howl, Tammy Trusheim-Rahmiller
      • Housewife as an Eclipse, Sara Moore Wagner
      • If a Tree Falls in Israel, Jamie Wendt
      • Snow Carrots, Paula Yup
      • Second Chance, James K. Zimmerman

Dan Veach Prize for Young Poets Winner 2024

      • Introduction, JC Reilly
      • God Is My Love, Elina Kumra 

Poetry International Grand Prize Winner 2024

      • Introduction, Jeannine Hall Gailey
      • The Woman in the Attic, Carol O’Brien

Finalists

      • Pieta, Susan Nisenbaum Becker
      • Apples of the Earth, Andrea Carter Brown
      • I Sit and Think About Men, Sara Burge
      • Formal Portrait, Johnson Cheu
      • Proof, Tara Connor
      • Splat, Tara Das
      • Seabirds, Carol V. Davis
      • Cocoa, Linda Drattell
      • Lake of Time, Tyler Dunston
      • Do they know you’re gone?, Linda Flaherty Haltmaier
      • Mojave, Judd Hess
      • Eclipse Is Another Word for Stroke, Matt Hohner
      • Missing, Hollis Kurman
      • Route 443, Jo-Ann Mort
      • The Arborist Repents, Dorothy Neagle
      • What the wind took, Terri Niccum
      • 1974 Sanibel Island, Pat Owen
      • Grateful, Diane Wilbon Parks
      • Coffee in March, Margaux Paul
      • In Zanzibar, Wanda S. Praisner
      • Hunting Bullfrogs, Sonya Schneider
      • Assateague, Virginia, Matthew J. Spireng
      • Mood Ring, Beth Toner
      • Kiyama-cho:  my father’s home, Terry Watada
      • Año Nuevo / New Year, Christopher Watson