Hero Jason has the remarkable ability to cut through the noise. He brings a refreshing honesty to spiritual practice, and even as his speaker struggles with their faith, it’s clear that Jason has tapped into a well of essential human…
Our first installment of poems chosen as finalists includes Sighle Meehan’s eerie and echoing “half-doors, bolted and broken,” which creates a call and response that haunts readers well after they leave the poetic space. By contrast, Imani Cezanne’s “I found…
Zoe Korte pulls no punches. The first lines of her poem “Dress Up Game,” cover all the bases, from human sacrifice all the way to devout religious practice. There’s an element to the way she creates pairings, both in terms…
Mary Robles’ “Psychic, 1988: ColoringMemory,New Mexico,” is immediately eye catching because of the keenly described sensory detail: in the first lines we see “sweet & bitter chestnut paste,’” and “roses / weeping on his forearms,” both of which are unique and evocative…
read and download our 2021 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Kazim Ali
// by Abby Johnson //
read and download our 2020 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Carl Phillips
// by Frederick Speers //
read and download our 2019 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Jericho Brown
// by Naima Tokunow //
read and download our 2018 Chapbook Contest winner
selected by Joshua Roark
// by Xiao Yue Shan //