Sara London, selections from Upkeep
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the New England Poetry Club Board Foter’s Tog* Whether you came becauseI summoned you, as if to an audition, or you drifted inon … Read more
New England Poetry Club
Eileen Cleary, selections from Child Ward of the Commonwealth
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the NEPC Board Foster Kid Ask her name or where she lives.She answers: Burke, Fitzpatrick. Shaughnessey. Old family, new family. Wake up, we’re … Read more
Richard Foerster, selection from Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the NEPC Board The Hours Matins Who could have told him thateventually this morning would comelike a bellclap herald shoutingthrough the … Read more
Carol Hobbs, selections from New-found-land
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the NEPC Board Narwhal Hall’s Bay is a china plate.I skate far out to the breathing holewhere the men chop the … Read more
Nickole Brown, selection from The Donkey Elegies: An Essay in Poems
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Honorable Mention, selected by José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes Excerpts from The Donkey Elegies I am no cowgirl, no farrier, no vet, but still I learn the routine: … Read more
Heather Treseler, selections from Parturition
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes Louisiana Requiem Eight months pregnant when your mother began hospice, you sat in the driveway, belly ovoid as an imperial … Read more
Alice Kociemba, “watch the stars that tremble with love and with hope”
E.E. Cummings Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Susan Donnelly watch the stars that tremble with love and with hope “All you need…two wooden spoons and a pan.” Though some had … Read more
Barbara Boches, “Carolina Silverbell”
E.E. Cummings Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Susan Donnelly Carolina Silverbell The first was for my first. The arboristwarned me against that rocky ledge, but I wanted the newbiewhere I … Read more
Monica Raymond, “After the Fire”
E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by Susan Donnelly After the Fire I have been down in the cellar after the firewhere the sheets of stained glass—bottle green, blue, mottled rose—meant to … Read more
Jennifer Edwards, “I’m Trying”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Dzvinia Orlowsky I’m Trying not to weaponize bitterness.Not to poison or overwhelm whenknocking down doors barely creakingopen or remaining locked. I’m enabling my … Read more