Lee Varon, “Billy’s Valentine”
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 moreLee Varon, “Billy’s Valentine”
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Jeremy Faro, “Groveland, Massachusetts, Summer 1979”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Martha Collins Groveland, Massachusetts, Summer 1979 It’s the oldest ginkgo tree in the entire Merrimack Valley or so Delma tells me as we … Read moreJeremy Faro, “Groveland, Massachusetts, Summer 1979”
Nancy Brewka-Clark, “The Dark Night of Charles Olson”
Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Martha Collins The Dark Night of Charles Olson (1910-1970) Gloucester, Massachusetts, November, 1968 At two in the morning a poet six-foot-eight casts a long … Read moreNancy Brewka-Clark, “The Dark Night of Charles Olson”
Hagop Merjian, “Nile Delta: Mattocks”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Mary Buchinger Nile Delta: Mattocks “I behold their industry and they are giants.” Walcott, “The Bounty” Salt from the earth and salt from … Read moreHagop Merjian, “Nile Delta: Mattocks”
Philip Burnham, “Afterword”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Mary Buchinger Afterword When I have rolled the world into a ball, Chased the moon from sickle to circle round, Harvested silence before … Read morePhilip Burnham, “Afterword”
Susan Jo Russell, “The Tree”
Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Mary Buchinger The Tree I am trying to tell myself the truth. —Kate Weare, choreographer of Garden 1. [man in the darkened theater] … Read moreSusan Jo Russell, “The Tree”