Poetry 2018

Table of Contents

General Submissions

      • The Townspeople Watch Them Take Alfonso, Ilya Kaminsky
      • Eulogy, Ilya Kaminsky
      • Rare gifts, Christina Beasley
      • Franz Tinscher, Michelle Castleberry
      • Spider, Noel Conneely
      • Backtracking, Stephanie Coneybear
      • Geology, Stephanie Conybeare
      • Now, Jennifer L. Freed
      • October 13, 2006, Malcolm Glass
      • The Pashto Poems, Kim Hamilton
      • Megacopta cribraria, Caroline Harvey
      • All the Reckoning, R.W. Jagodnik
      • Mammogram Eve, Eric Janken
      • A Plaque for Berryman, Paul Johnson
      • Daedalus Tying the Wings of Icarus, Marilyn E. Johnston
      • Raising the Ghost Year, Judy Kaber
      • Forward, out, Joyce Meyers
      • Torques/ Double Shifts at KFC, Raynald Patrice Desmeules Nayler
      • With Me, Linda Parsons
      • A February Thaw, Marge Piercy
      • Encounter, Deborah Pope
      • Gold Triumph Tulips, Deborah Pope
      • Just Enough Time, Donna Pucciani
      • Doting, Donna Reis
      • Reap, Marjorie Saiser
      • When Wind Blows All Day in the Desert, Marjorie Saiser
      • She Goes for a Walk, LeRoy N. Sorenson
      • Climate Change, Matthew J. Spireng
      • The Old Shall Bear Fruit, Anne Spring
      • When night falls and wine pours, Marc Swan
      • The World Is Always Ending Somewhere, Ben Swimm
      • Before Burial, Marilynn Talal
      • Those Weekends, Marilyn Talal
      • Speak, Mnemosyne, Angie Vorhies
      • Night, Raleigh Scott Wood
      • Dilling, Charles Wyatt
      • Dor, Charles Wyatt
      • The Weight of Bodily Touches, Joseph Zaccardi

Dan Veach Prize for Younger Writers

Poetry International 2018 Winner, judged by Julie Kane

Poetry International 2018 Finalists

      • Airship, January 1915, Marion Starling Boyer
      • Felt Calculus, Stephanie Christie
      • Why I Read Obituaries, Don Colburn
      • The Ladies, Mac Gay
      • interment, Ceridwen Hall
      • Samara, Don Hogle
      • A Brown Girl, Joe Jackson
      • Your fruit, hallowed, Naima Cerulean Kazmi
      • Marriage, Rosa Lane
      • What the Rat Told the World, Katharyn Howd Machan
      • Song for the Refugees, Bill Meissner
      • To My Father, on His Birthday, Aline Mello
      • Annie Kelly, 25, Greg Rappleye
      • My Grandfather’s Herringbone Cap, Greg Rappleye
      • A Late Lunch in California, Alice Campbell Romano
      • advice for women who have lost their husbands at sea, Rebecca Rose
      • From Nomad Poems, Set down set down, Patti Trimble
      • From Nomad Poems, We are seed, Patti Trimble
      • Fernandina, Galapagos Islands, Kelly Vande Plasse
      • The Tardigrade, Kelly Vande Plasse
      • Selected Nightmares, Chelsea Whitton
      • Your Fancy Bonsai Tree, Chelsea Whitton
      • Refuge, Hannah Yoest