CONTENTS
2023 JAMES WELCH PRIZE
WINNERS
FINALISTS
MAX EARLY
The Stone Shaped by Song
MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN
Ama/Agua
KINSALE DRAKE
First Date
MICHAEL WASSON
Murals Depicting a Lynching in a Courthouse to House the Idaho Legislature
CASANDRA LÓPEZ
I Try to Write About the Sea but Instead Write Another Dead Brother Poem
CHRIS HOSHNIC
Something is rotten in the state of Trust
MALIA MAXWELL
Pō
IBE LIEBENBERG
quiet wolf
POETRY
T. LE
A is for Apple
EMILY TIAN
Not Understanding Art
NOMI STONE
Friend Poem
DEIRDRE LOCKWOOD
Mother’s Day
ROBERT WOOD LYNN
Clemency
KATHRYN SMITH
The Curse
ELIZABETH METZGER
My Mallard
LAURA GROTHAUS
The Dove
AYESHA RAEES
Birthday Trip
NATALIE EILBERT
Unclassified Residuum
JANICE N. HARRINGTON
Playing the Bones
Hopscotch
ALISON PELEGRIN
Untold Powers
BRYAN THOMAS DALY
King of Monsters
ERICA DAWSON
Under the gun
After ECT
Behind the curtain, she screams
JHIO JAN NAVARRO
TRANS. ERIC ABALAJON
Confession of Flies
KAI CARLSON-WEE
Free
DAN ALBERGOTTI
What Took to the Air
EVA HOOKER
Shelter in Place
NICOLE CALLIHAN
Blip
MELISSA MCKINSTRY
Because I’m Sagittarius
ALEXANDER DURINGER
Wednesday Night, Berlin
HYEJUNG KOOK
Ah, My Dear
JEDDIE SOPHRONIUS
America
ANNA MARIA HONG
Sijo for & after the Anonymous Kisaeng Poets
Septembers
FELICITY SHEEHY
Elegy for February
CARLINA DUAN
Pastoral with Rocks I Hold
Even Now
AMEE NASSRENE BROUMAND
Car Trip with Wormhole
AVANI TANDON VIEIRA
Siolim
translation
ROB ARNOLD
Close
LINDSAY ROCKWELL
Speaking of Loneliness
REBECCA LEHMANN
A Dozen Sons
Your Last Autumn
ELOISA AMEZCUA
Untitled
GRACE MACNAIR
Gallery: 800—Joan of Arc, 1879 Jules Bastien-Lepage
LEILA CHATTI
Once in a While I Am Reminded
I Dreamed
Grief
TYLER MILLS
Confessions of a Demigod
LYNNE THOMPSON
Poinsettias & Other Continuums of Forgetting
TINA MOZELLE BRAZIEL
Spontaneous Combustion
ASMAA JAMA
tabula rasa
MOLLY SUTTON KIEFER
Dear Audre:
SHANNON ELIZABETH HARDWICK
You place quicksilver in the chest of a life-sized human doll stuffed with ash or dust
You call forth spirits of the dead, which flit around you for the spell’s duration
ANONYMOUS
TRANS. SPENCER LEE-LENFIELD
459
ANDY CHEN
My New Jersey
NICHOLAS GOODLY
Communication Breakdown
YE HUI
TRANS. DONG LI
The Earth
JOHN FREEMAN
Night Running
EMMA BOLDEN
Biology
LUCIA SENESI
Easter
CINDY TRAN
Biopsy/Dream
KATARINA FROSTENSON
TRANS. BRAD HARMON
Say More
MATT BROADDUS
Performing a Poem for America
FEATURES
CROSSINGS
ZAKARIA MOHAMMED
(trans. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha)
Four Poems
IN-PROGRESS
ERIK(A) JONAH
School for Runaways
WILLIAM ARCHILA
Cipitio
ALEXANDRA RISLEY SCHROEDER
Solutions
PRESENTING
DAISY ROSENSTOCK
Cain & Fable
ESSAY
LAUREN K. WATEL
Finding Yourself in Between: Magic in the Prose Poem
HOW TO
ROB SCHLEGEL
Tinker
I CALL IT JOY
ARTWORK
JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE SMITH