Poetry 2021 – Atlanta Review

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Table of Contents

General Submissions

- - Ascension, Amy Allen
  - What the Ancient Olive Said to Me, Joy Arbor
  - isn’t it pretty to think so, S. Aulet
  - Javelina, Marsha Blitzer
  - Without Praise or Blame, Joshua Boettiger
  - Duality, Caleb Bouchard
  - Syrinx in the Subway; Through a Window at Sunrise, Devon Brock
  - You Ate Too Many Baby Carrots, Ian Cappelli
  - Titan Flower, Cathy Carlisi
  - O It’s a Beautiful House, Grace Hughes Chappell
  - After the Aubade, Lauren Claus
  - Wild Hope, Patricia Davis-Muffett
  - The First Day, Holly Day
  - Obsidian, Benjamin Faro
  - Questions of Earth and Stone, R.L. Farr
  - A Curse, Lisa Grove
  - Boxwoods, Graham Hillard
  - Salt Pond Eel Hunt, Pamela Huber
  - Moment at the Cliffs, Natalie Jill
  - Cairns, Kitty Jospé
  - Hand to Mouth, Holly Kelso
  - Sand Wave, Katie Kemple
  - Symbiosis, Chris Ketchum
  - Spinning, Jacqueline Kudler
  - Saint Julian’s Day, Michael Lyle
  - Rules, Aimee Mackovic
  - Neighborhood Association, Angie Macri
  - They Say This Is Your Year, William May
  - Yesterday Morning at Pamela’s Diner, Andy McIntyre
  - The Shapeshifter in Therapy for Survivor’s Guilt, Michael Meyerhofer
  - I’m Not Any of the Things I Used to Be XXIV, Julie Murphy
  - Bird Church, Dorothy Neagle
  - Scavenger Forces, Sarah Payne
  - Small Town, Indiana, Sarah Degner Riveros
  - Ash, discomfort, and regret, Danielle Roberts
  - Illuminance, Sara Ryan
  - The Thickness of Memory Is the Thickness of Air, Nicholas Samaras
  - Endeavor, Adam Schechter
  - Arctic Negative; Tundra Forms, Bret Shepard
  - Job Interview: Is there anything else you’d like to say about yourself, Carrie Shipers
  - Mickey Mantle; Welcome, Mouse, Henry Stimpson
  - The Visitor, Melanie Tafejian
  - Zink Dam, Lauren Tess
  - Letter to My Ex’s Daughters, Chrys Tobey
  - Crossing the Bayou, Alex Thomas Turissini
  - Combine, Matt Vekakis
  - Helsinki day and night, Jay Wickersham

Dan Veach Young Prize for Younger Writers

- - Duplex, Haneefah Bello

POETRY 2021 International Competition, judged by Katie Farris

- - Melanie Tafejian

Poetry International Finalists

- - Eclogue 19: The Light in the Darkness, John Blair
  - Yoin, Marion Starling Boyer
  - Things, Limor Weisberg Caspi
  - Another Yahrzeit, Allison Creighton
  - Valentine’s Day, Stuart Gunter
  - them bones, ww harris
  - He had followed us, Ann Herlong-Bodman
  - Whenever I Walk Into the Museum, Heather Jessen
  - Sad Poem Right Out of America; Persia, Suz Lipman
  - The Windmills, Tim Louis Macaluso
  - Taos, Missouri, Flannery McAleer
  - My daughter reads aloud our horoscopes, Julie L. Moore
  - Cocktails in Warsaw, 2019, Jo-Ann Mort
  - Ending with What She Said in a Narrative of Snow, Michael Nelson
  - I Went to Sleep in One World and Woke in Another, Gail Newman
  - On the inland passage to Alaska, Veronica Patterson
  - Reading The Magic Mountain During the Pandemic, Wanda S. Praisner
  - In a Tent City, K.R. Segriff
  - love poem for good timing, Xiao Yue Shan
  - Keep in Touch, Julie Cadwallader Staub
  - Tofu Journey, Tara E. Sturgill
  - Pearls, David Tucker
  - Animals Living in Solitude, George Uba
  - Sonnet for My Thirty Four Year Old Self, Jocelyn Ulevicus