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 moreJennifer Edwards, “I’m Trying”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Dzvinia Orlowsky To ESOL Instructors: For Their Safety — You Will Refer to Domestic Abuse Survivors By Flower Names … Read moreBarbara Boches, “To ESOL Instructors: For Their Safety — You Will Refer to Domestic Abuse Survivors By Flower Names”
Amy Lowell Prize Co-Winner, selected by Dzvinia Orlowsky Poem for Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg and the Sea Serpent of Plymouth BayJune 14, 1857. Henry David Thoreau’s Journal“Watson tells me that … Read moreStephan Delbos, “Poem for Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg and the Sea Serpent of Plymouth Bay”
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Accounting Beyond the Border Wall: The Migrant Quilt Project, Tucson Sector New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA Moira Linehan is … Read moreMoira Linehan,”Accounting”
Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Cerebral Hemorrhage 1.In the room with the drawn curtains, my mother wakesenough to ask what’s happened to her,but You hurt your headis … Read moreJennifer L Freed, “Cerebral Hemorrhage”