Naila Moreira, selections from Water Street
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Co-Winner, selected by Krysten Hill The Bat How small it was— Crawling across the gravel drive, a mouse With arms grotesquely fanned, a faint Dark … Read more
New England Poetry Club
C. Prudence Arceneaux, selections from Dirt
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Co-Winner, selected by Krysten Hill Human Geography We are stretched across borders. Parched, we gape for each other. What words we remember are lost in … Read more
Catherine Rockwood, “Youth’s path unknown”
Diana Der Hovanessian Prize, selected by Susan Barba Youth’s path unknown Watching a careless young bird fly over the fields, across the sky, we do not know from that … Read more
Don Hogle, “Monet vs. the International Pop Art Exhibit”
E.E. Cummings Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Regie Gibson Monet vs. the International Pop Art Exhibit after Sir Thomas Wyatt The plastic crucifix mounted on a model U.S. fighter-bomber … Read more
Lillo Way, “Offering”
E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by Regie Gibson Offering –for David S. Buckel, Environmentalist and LAMBDA lawyer who, on April 14, 2018, self-immolated in Prospect Park, Brooklyn Oh liontail, swing yourself, … Read more
Hagop Merjian, “Nile Delta: Mattocks”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Mary Buchinger Nile Delta: Mattocks “I behold their industry and they are giants.” Walcott, “The Bounty” Salt from the earth and salt from … Read more
Philip Burnham, “Afterword”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Mary Buchinger Afterword When I have rolled the world into a ball, Chased the moon from sickle to circle round, Harvested silence before … Read more
Susan Jo Russell, “The Tree”
Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Mary Buchinger The Tree I am trying to tell myself the truth. —Kate Weare, choreographer of Garden 1. [man in the darkened theater] … Read more
Patricia Sheppard, The Running of the Brides
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Marilyn Nelson The Running of the Brides Were I to marry you today, as it says in the Song of Songs, I will … Read more
Cindy Veach, “Witch Kitsch”
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Co-Winner, selected by Marilyn Nelson Witch Kitsch Salem is a harbor of kitsch built on the ruins of history. —Christopher CF Lappin Park On Essex Street … Read more