Carol Hobbs, selections from New-found-land
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 more
Nickole Brown, selection from The Donkey Elegies: An Essay in Poems
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 more
Heather Treseler, selections from Parturition
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 more
Alice Kociemba, “watch the stars that tremble with love and with hope”
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 more
Barbara Boches, “Carolina Silverbell”
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 more
Monica Raymond, “After the Fire”
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 more
Jennifer Edwards, “I’m Trying”
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 more
Barbara Boches, “To ESOL Instructors: For Their Safety — You Will Refer to Domestic Abuse Survivors By Flower Names”
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 more
Stephan Delbos, “Poem for Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg and the Sea Serpent of Plymouth Bay”
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 more
Moira Linehan,”Accounting”
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 more