Poetry 2016

Table of Contents

General Submissions

      • A Bestiary of Power Tools, Ted Kooser
      • About Suffering, Liz Ahl
      • Lake Michigan Is So Clear Right Now Its Shipwrecks Are Visible From the Air, Liz Ahl
      • Old Radio Days, Jim Barloon
      • Hourglass, Tina Barr
      • Waves and Light, Susan Berlin
      • Esoterica, Michelle Brooks
      • Ledger of Years, Claudia Buckholts
      • Spring Walk, Claudia Buckholts
      • While Trying to Let Go of the Dying Sea Lions, I Find Myself Addressing My Ex-Husband, Barbara Conrad
      • Rain Dance with Redwood, Rachel Dacus
      • Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek, Timons Esaias
      • Lullaby, Nausheen Eusuf
      • Cinéma Vérité, Bill Glose
      • Falling Blossoms, Yu Tal (trans. Ian Haight)
      • River Journey, Yu Tal (trans. Ian Haight)
      • At Dragon Ferry Crossing, Yu Tal (trans. Ian Haight)
      • Metamorphosis, Tom Hansen
      • Low Commotion, Scott T. Hutchinson
      • Elegy for Earl, Pat Landreth Keller
      • Weather, Carla McGill
      • Walking, Carla McGill
      • Survivor’s Guilt, A. Molotkov
      • The Comet, Shira Moolten
      • It’s Nice Out, Shira Moolten
      • March 21, Mary B. Moore
      • Fallen Sonnet, Mary B. Moore
      • How We Grow Into Each Other, Michael Moos
      • The Thing You Fear, Michael Moos
      • Lagos de Covadonga, Ricardo Pau-Llosa
      • The Truth About Afternoons, Oliver Rice
      • Wert Jones, Andy Roberts
      • The Shovel, Andy Roberts
      • Postage Stamp, the First Date Series: Origami, the Kitchen Table, Lisa Roullard
      • Wait Till the Rain Stops, Joan Ryan
      • Elegy in the Camposanto, Joan Ryan
      • Days of 1966—Walking to Choir on the Upper West Side, Joyce Schmid
      • O.R., Claire Scott
      • All the Phases of Heaven, Ono Siporin
      • Instructions on How to Start Living Again, Ono Siporin
      • Oxbow Pond, Matthew Spireng
      • Hockey Game, Allison Carb Sussman
      • Sonnet with Sight and Romansch, Robert Thomas
      • Sonnet with Milk and Shovel, Robert Thomas
      • Psalm, Dennis Trudell
      • Unsung Saint, Fred Voss
      • The Nest, Fredrick Wilbur
      • While I Saute Apples and Onions to Stuff the Pork, Dede Wilson
      • From Warsaw, In Summer to Whomever Is Listening, Cecilia Woloch
      • Trying, Pui Ying Wong

Dan Veach Younger Writer’s Prize

Poetry International 2016 Finalists

      • Anniversary, Susan Cohen
      • The Latin Mass, Claire Hsu Accomando
      • Desert Rain, Carmella Santorelli
      • To the Moue on My Wife’s Face, Roy Mash
      • Song of My Selfie, Maria Terrone
      • Ode to Night Sweats, Candace Woodring Temple
      • Lightning Bugs, Terri Kirby Erickson
      • Blast from the Past, Nick Sweet
      • Latin II:  Caesar’s Gallic Wars, Gloria Masterson-Richardson
      • What Remains, Auschwitz, Wanda Praisner
      • Concrete Communion, Sheryl Mebane
      • Clio Sings the Blues, Joan Colby
      • Folding the Flag, Donna Marie Merritt
      • Where Are the Healers?, Gloria Masterson-Richardson
      • To the Family Who Bought Our House and Now Want to Cut Down All the Trees, Jeanne Wagner
      • Grief, Beth Copeland
      • Wild Azaleas, Donna Coffey Little
      • Parallel, Joyce Meyers
      • Parade, Kate Kingston
      • How to Wash a Body, Marueen Tolman Flannery
      • Burial at Prairie Sea, Justin Hunt
      • Rewilding the Golf Course, Michael Fleming
      • Nineteenth-Century Canvasses, Michael Fleming
      • California Light, Jane Sasser
      • The Fifth World, Jane Sasser

Poetry International 2016 Winner, judged by Dan Veach

      • Entering the Cill Rialaig Landscape, Moira Linehan