2025

L. Ward Abel, The Path Blooms and Falls Away Too

Devon Balwit, What Edith Wharton Taught Me

George Bandy, Wherein Herein We Lie

K.D. Barakat, She Came from Whitakers

Tim Barnes, The Stone That Stayed Behind

Peter Bergquist, Dichotomy

Lawrence Bridges, This Morning

Claudia Buckholts, Destruction of Texts

Edgar Burkett, She Had a Bag of Clementines

Bill Caldwell, Above I-240 and Patton Avenue, Chicken Hill

Barbara Conrad, Inheritance

H.M. Cotton, Winter Tulips

Timothy Dodd, Long Ridge

Anna Egeland, Cicada Season

Terri Kirby Erickson, The Coffin Maker’s Son

Kimberly Simms Gibbs, Wende

Lynn D. Gilbert, Lounging on the Davenport

Daniel Ginsburg, The Trains Always Run on Time

Peggy Heitmann, All My Life I’ve Hungered for a Pretty Singing Voice

Claire Helakoski, I Still See Their Figures Falling

Elizabeth W. Jackson, Before Light Comes

Gary Lark, Pebble Song

Richard Lebovitz, The Rescue

Chris Lisieski, A Simple Chore

Andy Lofthus, For Which There Ought to Be a Word

Al Maginnes, Alligator Point

Dianne Mason, Small Steps

Ron McFarland, Emily Joins a Writing Group

Sally Stewart Mohney, Salt River Elegy

William Rieppe Moore, Ode to the Sun from Forest Acres to Muddy Branch

Ryan Nelson, Cut Bait

Lupe Penn, Southern Air

Matt Poindexter, Archaeology

Isaac Rankin, Nineties Movies

Samuel Stenger Renken, Slow Food

Joel Savishinsky, Long Division: 80 into 16

Terry Savoie, Night Flowers

John Schneider, But the Wailing Beneath It

A. Michael Schultz, Moving to My Wife’s Hometown

Duncan Smith, The Small Hours

Matthew J. Spireng, On Learning of the Death of W.S. Merwin

Nancy Ciucevich Story, Margaret

Wally Swist, New Year’s Walk

Jo Barbara Taylor, Flapping of Wings

Allen Tullos, Brunt

Lisa C. Underwood, Lintheads

Jan Wiezorek, Time in Storm

Avra Wing, Amoremare

Kenton K. Yee, Somewhere Men Are Laughing, and Somewhere Children Shout

George Bandy, How I Was Made Good Nancy Brock, Hunting Season

Ruth Ann Dandrea, Elegy

Mindy Friddle, The Broken Boat

Karen Guzman, Someone Has Been Here

Roger Helms, Weeds Searching for Sunlight

Jarrett Kaufman, We Suffer the Fire

Ken Kelly, Death’s Burlesque

Abbey L.W., Don’t Hold Your Breath

Mick Leigh, The Remains

Michael Matejcek, Day Nine

Sarah McLaughlin, Funeral for a Fallen Star

Alexis Melson, Jellies

Maureen Sherbondy, The Men

Tyler Stallings, Desert Currency

Susan Levi Wallach, Julian in the Desert

Ryan T. Pozzi, Porch Light

Sarah Price, Tomorrow’s Yesterday

Susan Reese, The Gifts

Terry Sanville, Tour de Treasures

Jeffrey Utzinger, The Reclamationist

Joshua D. Wetjen, Return to the Classics