Poetry 2014

Table of Contents

General Submissions

      • Opening the House, Mark Christhilf
      • Chrildren of Night, Mark Christhilf
      • The Grape Arbor, Ron De Maris
      • The Gorge, Kerry Shawn Keys
      • On the Island, Emily Tuszynska
      • Summer’s End, Mary Anne Morefield
      • When Clio Dances, Joan Colby
      • Clio Sits for Her Portrait, Joan Colby
      • Clio Ascendant, Joan Colby
      • November, Titsian Tabidze, trans. Rebecca Gould
      • The Earth Lies Bear, Antonio Machado, trans. Thomas Feeny
      • To the Roses of Auvillar, Karen Head
      • Ode aux roses d’Auvillar, Karen Head, trans. Anne-Francoise Le Lostec
      • It Is Day Again, Tatiana Orono, trans. Jesse Lee Kercheval
      • If I Had a Superpower, Cathy Barber
      • Being Happy, Robert W. King
      • Songs of the Afterlife, Julia McCarthy
      • After All, Daniel Langston
      • Reading Shakespeare at the Senior Center, Dolores Stewart
      • Advice to a Daughter, Dolores Stewart
      • The Smackdown, Suzanne O’Connell
      • My Muse Borrows a Persona, Rebecca Baggett
      • Saturday Night after Walking the Lab, Doris Lynch
      • Driving Route 95, Laura Davies Foley
      • A Lifetime, Sandra Sidman Larson
      • Sentinel Node, Victoria Melekian
      • Abundance, Jennifer Freed
      • Sixty-Two Years, Elizabeth Rees
      • The Miller and His Wife, Sara Hughes
      • Breakers, Judy Whitehill Witt
      • Karesansui Late Rock Garden, Dorothy Howe Brooks
      • At the Byodo-In Temple, Clela Reed

Poetry International 2014 Winner

Poetry International 2014 Finalists

      • Joy, Charles Atkinson
      • Suffering a Leg Cramp While Listening to Gerald Stern Read a Poem, Matthew Spireng
      • Trinidad, Cuba, Wanda S. Praisner
      • Xoxocotlan Cemetery, Katie Thompson
      • Dropping Acid in the Hindu Kush, 1967, Rafaella Del Bourgo
      • Not Making Poetry in the Tunnel City Cafe, David Hopes
      • Love Me Like the First Word, Mike Schneider
      • Ferris Wheel, Alinda Wasner
      • Orpheus on Serial Monogamy, Don Schofield
      • in praise of cheating, Meryl Natchez
      • Mother Country, Margaret Stawowy
      • Domestic Karma, Andrea Carter Brown
      • In the Temple of Shining Mercy, Robin Cartensen
      • There Were Baskets, Moira Linehan
      • Anticipators, Kathleen McClung
      • Christmas Tree Elegy, Susan Thomas
      • Night Blizzard, Joan Kunsch
      • Yellow Cloche, Carol Frith
      • The Art of Shucking an Oyster, Ann Herlong-Bodman
      • Dear Jackie, Susan Cohen
      • The Eyes, Joan Colby
      • Ada Cat’s Elbows, James K. Zimmerman

More General Submissions

      • Upon the Death of a Poet, Jessica D. Thompson
      • Waking Heaney in Edgartown, Massachusetts, Kathleen O’Toole
      • Pilgrimage, Emily Benson-Scott
      • Words Within Words, Marjorie Mir
      • Sublimation, Sara Wallace
      • Some Simple Plan, Will Walker
      • An Old Birch, Allen C. Fischer
      • Cognitive Assonance, C.B. Anderson
      • Running with the Bulshitters, James Valvis
      • A boy should not, James. B. Nicola
      • Shetland, Nick Norwood
      • Snakes in Paradise, Richard Cecil
      • Roughnecks, Bob Buchanan
      • Georgiaa Gothic, Leon Stokesbury
      • At the Scrapyard, Dennis Trujillo
      • Years Later, in a Taxi, Driving Past 197 Chrystie Street, the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Robert Cooperman
      • one thanksgiving, Mark Belair
      • Sawmill, George Longenecker
      • Learning Mantinicus Light, Suellen Wedmore
      • Newsroom, 1969, Robert Brickhouse
      • The Black King, Alanna C. Burke
      • More Honored in the Breach:  Food Porn, Gaylord Brewer
      • A Gastronomy of Hurt, Jon Wesick
      • My Therapist Tells Me to Try to Recall What Caused My First Deep Depression, Jeff Worley
      • Welwitschia mirabilis, Namib Desert, Sandra Meek
      • Trombone, Richard Spilman
      • Watching Taj Hamburger Listen to Music, Elizabeth Rees