Poetry 2015

Table of Contents

General Submissions

        • Horny Toad as Muse, Peggy Shumaker
        • Hot Spring as Muse, Peggy Shumaker
        • Fraternity, Tony Hoagland
        • Easter, Tony Hoagland
        • Mother’s Happiness, Mark Jarman
        • Mother’s Bedsore, Mark Jarman
        • Transit, Tracy K. Smith
        • Interview with Tracy K. Smith, Esther Lee
        • The Day the Orchestra Died, Esther Lee
        • Lens-Flare Painting, Esther Lee
        • Accent, Ron Rash
        • Moody Spring, Ron Rash
        • Salt and Ashes, Judith Ortiz Cofer
        • Let’s Imagine I’m Trying to Deliver Something to You, Dannye Romine Powell
        • The Bridge Aches for Water, Dannye Romine Powell
        • Hospice as Muse, Peggy Shumaker
        • Benediction, Anya Silver
        • Autumn, Anya Silver
        • Red Never Lasts, Anya Silver

Poetry International 2015, Grand Prize Winner

Poetry International 2015, Finalists

        • Holy Week, Twilight, South Sudan, Raphael Kosek
        • Water, Judith Terzi
        • Passing Odysseus on the Way, Marjorie Mir
        • Afterimage, Andrea Potos
        • “Though It Be but Bread and Onion, Let It Be Given Graciously,” Rosalind Pace
        • Bullfrog in Spring, Lynn Tudor Deming
        • Of Limpet Larvae and Home Scars, Mary Rozmus-West
        • Harboring the Ducks, Deborah H. Doolittle
        • Vespers, Tina Johnson
        • Vanishing Point at the Inlet, Susan Berlin
        • Imagination’s Steed, Mary Makofske
        • I Am What I’ve Eaten, Sherman Pearl
        • Request, Joan Ryan
        • Don’t Let the Fluffy Fool You, Tanya Shirley
        • Unchanging Guards at Buckingham Palace, Robert Lundy
        • Rocket Science, Eve Forti
        • Government in a Box, Tom Boswell
        • Thoughts on a Suicide Bomber’s Cowardice, Rob Jacques
        • Milltown Cemetery, Belfast, March 16, 1988, Paul McMahon
        • Oblivion, Justin Hunt
        • Wisteria and Ashes, Joyce Meyers
        • Still, the rose, Carol Was
        • I watch him, my husband, Jay Kid
        • Shifting, Joan I. Siegel
        • Married Love, Meryl Natchez

More General Submissions

        • The Song of the Tang’s Li Yu, Kevin Boyle
        • The Executioner, Peter Serchuk
        • Debt, Louis Phillips
        • Instead of Prayer, Melissa Crowe
        • Stewards of the Dead, Susan E. Gunter
        • The World Wants Us Well, Lynn Hoggard
        • Orange Juice, Michael Fulop
        • In Play, Greg Moglia
        • Kilmalkedar (Cill Mhaoilceadair), Mark D. Hart
        • Where Swift Fire Moved, Michael S. Moos
        • Wong Lee Talks Idaho History to a Friend, Peter Ludwin
        • The Horse Whisperer, Mark Smith
        • From the Horse’s Mouth, Barbara J. Mayer
        • Chestnut Mare, Dion O’Reilly
        • Observer Effect, Lew Forester
        • Barracuda, Ron De Maris
        • Kicking the Bucket List, Barbara Lydecker Crane
        • Ballerina, Matthew J. Spireng
        • Bedtime Story, Steve Kupferschmid
        • Musee National d’Art Moderne, Brian C. Felder
        • At the Word Party, Mary Soon Lee
        • On Cheese, Susan Elizabeth Howe
        • I Will Never Read Dr. Zhivago Again, Caleb Brooks
        • Odes to Effects Pedals, Simon Mermelstein
        • Moment of Omen, Tom Chandler
        • Going Away, Cathy Carlisi
        • Stroller Tot Violently Upset, Clifford Paul Fetters
        • Santa Monica Sunrise, Mike Faran
        • Live Scan, Charles Harper Webb
        • Coracle of Prayer, Kristin Berkey-Abbott
        • Anti Carpe Diem, Richard Cecil
        • Having Mastered Time Travel, Mark Twain Visits the Walmart Supercenter, William Jolliff
        • Outsourcing My Grief, Peter Krass
        • Rustbeltasana, Lynn Pattison
        • Profession of Flora, Jane Varley
        • The Situation, Juan Gelman, trans. John Oliver Simon
        • Sunday Morning in His Workshop, Duane K. Caylor