We’re all very excited to share with you the 1st place winner of the 2021 New Voices Contest and $3000, selected by Donika Kelly! “’Assimilamentations’ is full-hearted in its rage and grief. Across its kaleidoscopic sections, the poet positions the…
The poem rebels against its own birth onto the confines of a page. Every line a whirlpool of self-reflective corrections and alterations—”un [naming] / trans” is a revolution against its own reading, your effort to build around it a box…
We’re all very excited to share with you the winners of the 2021 New Voices Contest, selected by Donika Kelly. Today, we have “Abandoned Sestina” by A.D. Lauren-Abunassar. Stay tuned for our winner S Kim’s poetry on the June 30th.…
In “Mortification,” the raw intricacies of anatomy lead the speaker to moments of introspection; as much as we are part of the world, Jane Zwart’s poem argues, we are also her witness and philosopher. Mortification In the first flush…
We’re all very excited to share with you the winners of the 2021 New Voices Contest, selected by Donika Kelly. Today, we have “Interlocution” by Syd Westley. Stay tuned for our second place poem by A.D. Lauren-Abunassar next Wednesday, and…
In “ECLIPSE,” a lingering memory mimics a vision of shadow and light. Like the light, like the shadow: we are always with those who’ve cared for us. ECLIPSE We’ve tucked the skylights in, stapled the curtains to the wall.…
Congratulations to the talented emerging poet S. Kim, winner of the 2021 New Voices Contest, and a sincere thanks to everyone who submitted. S Kim has been selected for the $3000 prize by the incredible Donika Kelly. A.D. Lauren-Abunassar is…
In “Notes on Desire, on Distance,” a dead buck in the road leaves the speaker to muse on the passions in her life. These musings, both familial and romantic, guide the poem’s climax of ultimate unity. Notes on Desire,…
In “When You Kiss Me Your Hands Smell Like Bleach,” a mundane scene of spring cleaning turns into a declaration of true passion. In a whimsical tone, the speaker praises love and beauty of the everyday, like Neruda’s odes before…
In the Year of Our Making & Unmaking made a stunning debut this month—a powerful and innovative meditation on love and beauty and mystery punched into the chapbook form. Carl Phillips chose this chapbook as the winner of our 2020…
