David P. Miller, “Add One Father to Earth”
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Robert Pinsky Add One Father to Earth I. Shelved where his shoes had been, his unrested ashes waited in a black … Read more
2019 Contest Poems
Dzvinia Orlowsky, “The (Dis)enchanted Desna”
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Co-Winner, selected by Robert Pinsky The (Dis)enchanted Desna—after Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956)1 in a time of Putin 1. Desolate He had no soul, only steam, no eyes, … Read more
Susan Donnelly, “The Maureen Papers”
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Co-Winner, selected by Robert Pinsky The Maureen Papers I. You sign up for a massage at the retreat center and make the mistake of saying … Read more
Lee Varon, “Billy’s Valentine”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Martha Collins Billy’s Valentine I sent her a valentine everything is red red red wavy lines nervous tics it sicks not sucks … Read more
D.M. Aderibigbe, selections from How the End First Showed
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the New England Poetry Club Board Love Story Here’s the tale of a woman who spent many years on the … Read more
María Luisa Arroyo, “Moving Landscape”
Diana Der Hovanessian Prize, selected by Alan Smith Soto Moving Landscape You should be able to leave and yet be like a tree: as if rooted to the ground … Read more
James K. Zimmerman, “This Is the End of Winter, This Is the Beginning”
E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by Nicole Terez Dutton This Is the End of Winter, This Is the Beginning I know I should not pick up by hand this mess … Read more
Shara Lessley, selections from The Explosive Expert’s Wife
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Co-Winner, selected by the New England Poetry Club Board Letter to Rania in Amman Ashburn, Virginia Today I took the kids by stroller past the … Read more
José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes, selections from Present Values
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Naila Moreira Instructions to Travelers from the Third World Before you cross the border, you must learn how to use your passport, … Read more
Jeremy Faro, “Groveland, Massachusetts, Summer 1979”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Martha Collins Groveland, Massachusetts, Summer 1979 It’s the oldest ginkgo tree in the entire Merrimack Valley or so Delma tells me as we … Read more