2022-2023 Poetry Editor’s Statement

Best Poem Winner: Wind-Up by Samantha Knipple

Academy of American Poets Prize Winner: At the Skeet Shoot the Day After Sandy Hook by Cayla Garman

Academy of American Poets Prize Runner-Up: Dreadful Wait by Aleksa Ley

Academy of American Poets Prize Runner-Up: Ladies love puncture-hole pink by Lauren Halbruner

Academy of American Poets Prize Runner-Up: Securing Our Spots by Andi Moritz

Concrete Haiku 1 by Timothy David Smith

Edolie by Kaitlyn Klein

Film by Yusri Zafri

Gold by Elizaveta Skulskaia

I’m Learning Your Language by Elizaveta Skulskaia

Misery Loves Company by Samantha Knipple

One Night Stands by Nathaniel Price

Stained by Nathaniel Price

The Common Courage by Chandler Dugal

The Day Before by Nathaniel Price

The Landlord Special by Ashley Green