2020-2021 Poetry

2020-2021 Poetry Editorial Statements

AAP Prize Winner: Dance to the Music of Justice by Nabin Adhikari

AAP Prize Runner-Up: Save the Date by Madaline Hoy

AAP Prize Honoree: Out Like a Lamb by Kelleigh Stevenson

AAP Prize Honoree: What Was I Supposed to Say? by Brieanna Carr

AAP Prize Honoree: Run Us Justice Not Death by Tyreese Christopher Smith

Best Poem Winner: As You Wish by Emily Dempsey

❚❚ /▲ by Brieanna Carr

An open letter to my [role unspecified] by Naomi Detwiler

Omission by Madaline Hoy

What Muse by Aliza Jane

Scents of You to Make Sense of You (and the fake flowers on my kitchenette) by Myah Koepfer

Pencils by Myah Koepfer

I Kiss the Sky by Luke Kohutiak

Give me Something by Jonathan Krystopolski-Czernics

Sleepfull by Jonathan Krystopolski-Czernics

Chromatic by Jonathan Krystopolski-Czernics

Questions from a Heavy Hand by Tristan Shaffner

The First Official Letter to the Baby I Didn’t Carry by Justine Shultz

Yurievitch by Daniil Skulskii

They’re Fighting Again by Daniil Skulskii

My Tricolour by Daniil Skulskii

Second Person Singular by Daniil Skulskii

An Opened Book and A Conservative Book Burner by Kelleigh Stevenson

A Pisces’ Place in the Sky by Kelleigh Stevenson

This is Never Going to Work but You’re a Masochist and I am a Piece of Paper by Julia Wanner