Poetry 2021

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