Amy Lowell Prize Co-Winner, selected by Dzvinia Orlowsky “O Lord, We Are Aware of Our Iniquity and the Iniquity of Our Fathers”Jeremiah 14-20 In this breathing dark we are the … Read moreEllin Sarot, “O Lord, We Are Aware of Our Iniquity and the Iniquity of Our Fathers”
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 moreSara London, selections from Upkeep
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 moreEileen Cleary, selections from Child Ward of the Commonwealth
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 moreRichard Foerster, selection from Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems
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 moreCarol Hobbs, selections from New-found-land
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 moreNickole Brown, selection from The Donkey Elegies: An Essay in Poems
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 moreHeather Treseler, selections from Parturition
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 moreAlice Kociemba, “watch the stars that tremble with love and with hope”
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 moreBarbara Boches, “Carolina Silverbell”
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 moreMonica Raymond, “After the Fire”