Poetry 2020

 

Table of Contents

General Submissions

        • Comonwealth, Jonathan Aibel
        • Prayer, Lawrence Arancio
        • My Aunt, Peter Austin
        • Reflections on a Map Before Going Out, Michael Barrett
        • Threshold, Michèle Betty
        • Butanding,  Michèle Betty
        • Gullah Words, Sam Candler
        • Weightless, Sarah Carey
        • Tomorrow’s Forecast, Wendy Taylor Carlisle
        • Elizabeth Bishop and Mariane Moore at the Circus, David Curry
        • Snow’s Memory, Todd Davis
        • Faremo il Limoncello, Chelsea N. Fabian
        • The Girl by the Window, Jennifer Finstrom
        • My Father, Jennifer L. Freed
        • Rhinthon to a Traveler at His Grave,  Daniel Galef
        • Cannot,  Robbie Gamble
        • Dispatch from a Hotel Pool,  Megan Gannon
        • Stand Up Paddle Board,  Giles Goodland
        • Hunting, with Text,  Silvia Guerra (tr. J.L. Kercheval & J. Pitas)
        • The Catch, Ken Haas
        • milkweed: a love poem, Cordelia Hanemann
        • Rootstock, Sallie Hess
        • All Velvet, Hannah Horn
        • A Precursor to Neurosurgery, Zebulon Huset
        • Tea House, Hajar Hussaini
        • University of Feelings, Kenneth Jakubas
        • Winter Barley, Erik Jonah
        • Tomales Bay, Kathryn Jordan
        • The Invited, Garret Keizer
        • The Constellations of Other Countries, Tina Kelley
        • What the Undertaker Said at the Party,  Laurinda Lind
        • Passé, Lauren Mallett
        • Crabapples, Joshua Martin
        • Wolfram My Valentine, Lynn McGee
        • Speaking to the Shadows, Joseph Milosch
        • You Ask Why, Exactly, Your Birth Mom Left You (and What That Means About Love), Rebecca Morton
        • I’m Not Any of the Things I Used to Be, LI, Julie Murphy
        • I’m Not Any of the Things I Used to Be, LII, Julie Murphy
        • Moon of Faith, Michele Reese
        • Three African Prayers, Rochelle Robinson-Dukes
        • Nursing the Books, Joel Savishinsky
        • Etika Downstream, T. Dallas Saylor
        • Autumn, New Mexico, Ruth Smullin
        • When You Ask Me Why I Have to Walk So Long, So Far Away, Christine Swint
        • After the Curandera Told Me About the Spirits, Christine Swint
        • Now, Somehow, Judith Terzi
        • Hen, Iain Twiddy
        • Visiting, Brian Volck
        • Chvrches, B.J. Wilson
        • Becoming a Raccoon,  Annie Woodford

Dan Veach Prize for Younger Writers

Poetry International 2020 Winner, judged by Khalisa Rae

Poetry International 2020 Finalists

        • Body Scan Meditation, Craig Beaven
        • Self Portrait as Star Gazer, Caleb Braun
        • Night traps, Anne Casey
        • Beloved,  Christian Collier
        • Jake’s Parade, Michael Dechane
        • Absolution Fantasy,  Aaron Deutsch
        • The Only Way We Know How, Laurel Faye
        • On the Bowerbird, Thalia Geiger
        • Receiving the Veil, Renny Golden
        • Sacrilege,  Renny Golden
        • Bundle of Asparagus, 1880, Paula Goldman
        • 13 Reasons Why My Mexican Father Fears Water,  Saúl Hernández
        • Hoyt Arboretum Under Spring Rain, AE Hines
        • Purgatory : Pandemic, Anna Leahy
        • In Which We Bleed the Moon of the Orient, Tina Mai
        • The Forest Beyond the Trees, Michael Malan
        • Nanjing, Emma Miao
        • Baby, Amy Miller
        • Appalachia Aubade, Tony Morris
        • Delirium, Day Sixteen After Surgery, Walking with Whitman, Adele Ne Jame
        • All the Colours of the Sky, Damen O’Brien
        • What’s in a Name, Esther Ra
        • Thirteen for Supper, Claire Scott
        • Illustrating an Angel, Elena Unger
        • Thank You for the Tiger Lilies, Kelly Vande Plasse