Carol Hobbs’ first full-length collection New-Found-Land is now available through Main Street Rag Press in North Carolina. New-found-land spans Hobbs’ early experience in Newfoundland among her family and in the beauty and risk of that place. The poems also delve into emigration and life as both a native returning to the island and as an outsider longing for some crumbling concept of home.
Collection: Doug Holder papers – Archival & Manuscript Collections – University at Buffalo Libraries The collection includes correspondence between Doug Holder and other poets; articles and ephemera including a Somerville … Read more
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Robert Pinsky Add One Father to Earth I. Shelved where his shoes had been, his unrested ashes waited in a black … Read more
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Co-Winner, selected by Robert Pinsky The (Dis)enchanted Desna—after Alexander Dovzhenko (1894-1956)1 in a time of Putin 1. Desolate He had no soul, only steam, no eyes, … Read more
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Co-Winner, selected by Robert Pinsky The Maureen Papers I. You sign up for a massage at the retreat center and make the mistake of saying … Read more
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Martha Collins Billy’s Valentine I sent her a valentine everything is red red red wavy lines nervous tics it sicks not sucks … Read more
