The Peasantry
By Weijia Pan
“I could read history from the back of your reddened skull. / You could read me directly, reflected in the eyes of passers-by.”
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2024 Previously Published Poem Prize: Winners & Finalists
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2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize Winners & Finalists
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kh like khummus
By Bazeed
“that bark & branches bristle / with eyes / see all that happens / under the sky. / all that murders & slithers / from sea to shining sea.”
Banjo Be
By Maurya Kerr
“banjo be deeply known by its own / before bootlegged for mass / production, instruction manual, smash & grab of its soul.”
Sharper Than
“Honed a kind of malingering, for most of that stint – / part-response to my farm-crazed aunt’s / unsparing miserableness.”
Caravaggio Fever Dream
“I regret / that I never mentioned you in my sleep, never thought / that you might want me to leave the porch light on / for a thousand saints to welcome you to my home.”
2023 Palette Chapbook Prize: Winners & Finalists
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COUNTERPETITIONER’S SUPPORTING AFFIDAVIT
By Starr Davis
“I CERTIFY / I built a life on the run from the broken law of my body”