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
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
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
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 more
