Poetry 2019

Table of Contents

General Submissions

        • Equinox, Shannon Ackerman
        • By the Delta, Tobi Alfier
        • Days of Blackbird, KB Ballentine
        • Background, Daisy Bassen
        • Phantom Limb, Mark Burke
        • Stolen Lily, Rachel Aviva Burns
        • Lawn Tennis, Charles Laird Calia
        • The Wolf, Douglas Cole
        • My Cane, Robert Cooperman
        • Anne Frank’s Cat, Pat Daneman
        • Ro-Sham-Bo, Christine Darragh
        • Back Among My Own, Wendy Drexler
        • Hilel at the Golden Dragon, Louis Faber
        • Night, Verbezhichi , David Galloway
        • Humidity, Abigail Goodhart
        • I’m Happy DriveYou All the Way Home, Caroline Goodwin
        • Near twilight, Carrie Heimer
        • Grace, A.E. Hines
        • December in the South, Patricia Hooper
        • One Flesh, Rebecca Irene
        • chicago, pacific and st. paul,  Dan Jacoby
        • Mercy, P M F Johnson
        • Rattlebox, Robert Lee Kendrick
        • Little River, Richard Kenefic
        • The West Wind Wears a Quiet Elegance,  Louise Labé/J. Kates (trans.)
        • How to Be a Tomato, J. Adams Lagana
        • Still Life with Bison, Kathryne Lim
        • What the Tow Truck Driver Told Me, John Mancini
        • Indigo| Baptisia australis, Thea Matthews
        • Sundays in the Saddle, Barbara Mayer
        • Lazarus II, Reagan McNamee-King
        • Data Analytics Explained, Gary Mesick
        • Calabash Jug, Ann E. Michael
        • Last Light, Jory Mickelson
        • From Chile, James Miller
        • Pass, Valley, Gate, Cathedral, Devon Miller-Duggan
        • Ten Love Stories, A. Molotkov
        • Time Zones, Jo-Ann Mort
        • Rites, Elizabeth Murawski
        • Our First Time Making Love After the Funeral, Shannon Nakai
        • Last One, Donna O’Connell-Gilmore
        • Swing Low, Donna Pucciani
        • A Stick of Butter, Donna Pucciani
        • Flora & Fauna, Michele Parker Randall
        • Sienna Hills, Claudia Reder
        • Twilight Over Ankang Straightaway, Paul Reyns
        • The Last Straw, Anele Rubin
        • The Ant & the Peony, Kelly R. Samuels
        • Our Ladies of the Marsh Islands, Cliff Saunders
        • First Snow, Felicity Sheehy
        • A Friday in April, Felicity Sheehy
        • Lăowài, Andrew Slugantz
        • Find Me A Horse, William Snyder, Jr.
        • While Viewing Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party,  Gary Stein
        • Words Frequently Confused: Lunar, Lunate,  Phillip Sterling
        • Decorations for the New Year, Jack Stewart
        • St. John’s School, Pauline Uchmanowicz
        • Habit of Keeping, Austin Veldman
        • Ithika, J.L. Wall
        • Whooshing like winded sumo wrestlers, Marty Walsh
        • Watering Can, Lindsay Wilson
        • Eclogue: The Limbs So Full We Though They’d Break, Lindsay Wilson
        • Selective Mutism, Jennifer Wolkin
        • Toward the Raspberry Bush, Anna Zumbahlen

Dan Veach Younger Writer’s Prize

        • Where to Find Poetry, Ivy Marie
        • Palestine is Upside Down, Rema Shbaita

Poetry 2019, judged by Dan Vera, Grand Prize Winner

        • Suzie,  Kurt Luchs

Finalists

        •  Tongue, JD Amick
        • [Letter of Love] to Ojīchan, Aozora Brockman
        • Self Portrait with Rubble, Sylvia Foley
        • A pledge to the dead requires no proof, Jennifer L. Hollis
        • Corpse, Dana Jaye
        • Medtation on a Trash Fire in My Backyard, Robert J. Keeler
        • Quantum Heart, Kathleen Kirk
        • Waiting for Mother’s Geraniums, Pingmei Lan
        • One Intimate Morning, Belle Ling
        • Nighttime in Jericho, Jo-Ann Mort
        • Stones without People and the Art of the Mulberry, Adele Ne Jame
        • Consumption of a Black Hole and Sweat Bees, John Nieves
        • Thin Places, Edward Nudelman
        • Thought Experiment, Edward Nudelman
        • Apples, Crabapples, David Rock
        • Sometimes, Briefly, Kelly Rowe
        • Spring Freeze, Joan Roberta Ryan
        • Unscrolling, Joan Roberta Ryan
        • Dead Woman’s Hollow Road, Nicole Santalucia
        • What White Lies Beneath, Heidi Seaborn
        • Prelude to a Resurrection, D.R. Shipp
        • She Zuo Bin’s Rite of Spring, Mary Spalding
        • Where We Call to Nest, Felicia Zamora
        • Turbulence: Night Flight to Cairo, Kristin Camitta Zimet