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 more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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