Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the NEPC Board Foster Kid Ask her name or where she lives.She answers: Burke, Fitzpatrick. Shaughnessey. Old family, new family. Wake up, we’re … Read moreEileen Cleary, selections from Child Ward of the Commonwealth
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 moreRichard Foerster, selection from Boy on a Doorstep: New and Selected Poems
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 moreCarol Hobbs, selections from New-found-land
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the New England Poetry Club Board Love Story Here’s the tale of a woman who spent many years on the … Read moreD.M. Aderibigbe, selections from How the End First Showed
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Co-Winner, selected by the New England Poetry Club Board Letter to Rania in Amman Ashburn, Virginia Today I took the kids by stroller past the … Read moreShara Lessley, selections from The Explosive Expert’s Wife
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by the New England Poetry Club Board To My Many Mothers, Issei and Nisei Praise be to beef liver stew, to … Read moreMia Ayumi Malhotra, selections from Isako Isako
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Daniel Legros Georges Fern and Shadow This severed earth, a veined vapor. Its name is prunes easily in water. Its name— fern and … Read moreAdam Giannelli, selections from Tremulous Hinge
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Danielle Legros Georges Wreck Janine, your head might have hit something in the car. Come to and quickly. Opening … Read moreJanine Joseph, selections from Driving Without A License
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Co-Winner, selected by Danielle Legros Georges Memory I bruise the way the most secreted, most tender part of a thigh exposed purples then blues. … Read moreShara McCallum, selections from Madwoman
