“Alzheimer’s Abecedarian and Erasure” by Wendy Drexler

Samuel Washington Allen Prize Finalist, selected by Jennifer Garfield

Wendy Drexler is a recipient of a 2022 artist fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her fourth collection, Harvest of What Remains, will be published in January 2026 by Lily Poetry Review and received honorable mention for the Paul Nemser Prize. Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, J Journal, Nimrod, Pangyrus, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Solstice, The Mid-American Review, The Sun, and The Threepenny Review, among others. She was the poet in residence at New Mission High School in Hyde Park, MA, from 2018 to 2023 served as programming co-chair for the New England Poetry Club from 2016–2024.