“Elegy Sequence for Charles Coe” by Carla Schwartz

Samuel Washington Allen Prize Winner, selected by Kirun Kapur

Carla Schwartz’s poems have appeared in her collections, including Signs of Marriage. Learn more at  https://carlapoet.com, or on social media @cb99videos. Recent curations: Amsterdam Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Drifting Sands, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Main Street Rag, One Art, Pork Belly, and Rattle Magazine. She has been awarded two prizes from the New England Poetry Club. Carla Schwartz lives half the time in the greater Boston area, and half the time on an unbridged island in Lake Winnipesaukee.