Who Is This Grief For?
By K. Iver
There are so many gods wanting my soreness. / I can bruise my forehead bowing before so many statues.
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2022 Previously Published Poem Prize: Winners & Finalists
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Restoration
“Goldmanite, / use what seeds you can to drape / this mountain in clouds, Muses / in the forest”
The Hollywood Glacier
By Maria Nazos
“how the body’s slow melting / is the only way / to open a hardened heart / the glacier you enter with dissolving”
Sand Flats, UT
By Emily Lawson
“but you held me down, just like this, / possessed, alien, godlike, looking at me, outside of / time—”
2021 Love & Eros Prize: Winners & Finalists
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Hypotenuse
By Len Lawson
“The eyes of injustice strike deep as a bullet. The eyes of a revolutionary strike deeper through eternity.”
A
“A is antecedent, anterior, the abscess from which all else / arises. The atrocity in the attic, but also the attic’s architecture.”
The Gallery of America
By Katie Hale
“There was ugliness, too, in the gallery, though the audioguide / steered me meticulously away.”