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By Terri Kirby Erickson
The Little Mommy Sonnets
“I will put Chaos into fourteen lines and keep him there…” —Edna St. Vincent Millay 1 Your voice, always in my head until the shrinking, until I could call you Little Mommy. When you lost the family names, we watched them march out the door holding hands with the hurts…
The Air Lit Afire
For the 216 men and boys killed in the 1902 Fraterville Mine explosion This is how they died: while a boy held a pocket watch in the near-dark, while the lantern lit up bituminous veins, their chests took flame and their bodies slumped. A few of them with paper and…
Long Line Inexorably Moving, April 12, 2016
(a double abecedarian) Zoned camps strung with barbed wire. Sandwiches, weak tea, yearning wives, their memories of Aleppo (Haleb), xysters, scraping their bones. Baby cries with colic, weary children whine; they all witnessed the transcribed dead. Violence, thieves, the worst and the best, each refugee united into one braid of…
The Colourist of Artificial Fish
The trick is understanding line of sight: the upper is mud-olive like the river bed; the under, shimmering and bright, the newly sun-hit surface of the water. I am Seurat—my dots are scales, the play of light on something moving, sinuous; the dark is stippled black; two jet eyes say…
Sundowning
A condition in which persons with cognitive impairment tend to become confused or disoriented at the end of the day. —Mosby's Medical Dictionary At night, it's not a lie to say there never was a sun. So if she finds a chocolate, say it's Easter. And if she says it's…
Custodial
I used to mop the floors in the detox ward, a line of doors guarded by a coded lock that sundered the patients' days from mine, that portioned out their time, as I wondered, and soldiered against entropy, what I'd do if it were me and I had risen there,…
The Road West
I left my kid brother standing alone in our mother's living room display of antiquities. I left him flanked by the dual stone poodles guarding the hearth. He held still for it, his two lips one line like a mute hyphen between state secrets, in his eyes the fog where…
Insomnia
Thoughts cannot hurt you. When flies settle on the ceiling, don't listen to the fever of their wings. Honesty does not have to be a knife. Still, your skin mixes with molecules of air, lit cities clenched in your heartbeat. When you check your reflection, use the window. A sheet…
For a Catfish (after Fukushima)
I am become Death, The shatterer of worlds. —J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoted from the Bhagavad-Gita after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings It was Namazu, legend says, caused the quake. He drifted off one night as always, snug under blanket-layers of mud, smell of seaweed lulling him to sleep, fatigue's lead-weight…
Anchorhold
for, and inspired by, José Angel Araguz I am confined with time on my hands— my anchorhold is the kitchen. This door is the peek through which I receive the host, not from a priest but from the grocery, husband bringing in a twenty-two kilo sack of flour, double-ott, a…
How the Boy Might See It
By Charlie Bondhus
Able to Choose
By Patrick T. Reardon
Edges of Roads
Of all country things, I suppose I know best the edges of roads, not berms where grass grows down to sides of ditches, like on interstates, or even where animals feed at dusk, where cans congregate with wrappers and the small dead are bounced off below the cruising vultures. I…
The Fitting
Normally, you want the front ballistic panel two and one half inches above the belt. A bullet proof vest is only as good as the fitting. Raise your chin. I'll get the length of your chest. Above the belt and no higher than your second top button. That way when…
Gail Thomas
Gail Thomas has published six books of poetry, most recently Trail of Roots, winner of the A.V. Christie Series from Seven Kitchens Press, and Leaving Paradise. Her chapbook Odd Mercy was chosen by Ellen Bass as the winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press. Waving Back was named…
Ann Struthers
Ann Struthers' poems have been place winners, honorable mentions, and runners-up, but never the big prize winner. She has two collections and three chapbooks, and her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines including Poetry International, The North American Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry, The Hudson Review, Crab Creek Review,…
Beth Somerford
Beth Somerford grew up in Hampshire, England and currently lives in Brighton with her composer husband. She has four grown children. Her poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Magma, Equinox, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, Iota, The Cannon's Mouth, the French Literary Review, The Interpreter's House, and Brittle Star. She…
Daniel Kincade Renton
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, Daniel Kincade Renton has been published in journals and anthologies such as Prism International, Hazlitt, CV2, Hamilton Arts & Letters, The Fiddlehead, The Malahat Review, The Fish Quill Poetry Boat 2010-2013, and Sifted: A Collection of Work by Participants at the Banff Centre…
Jim Nawrocki
Jim Nawrocki was born in Toledo, Ohio and is a graduate of Bowling Green State University, where he received a B.A. in English, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he received an M.A. in English. For the past 25 years, he has held a variety of journalism, publishing, marketing,…
Jed Myers
Jed Myers is author of Watching the Perseids (Sacramento Poetry Center Book Award), The Marriage of Space and Time (MoonPath Press), and, due out in 2024, Learning to Hold (Wandering Aengus Press Editors' Award). Out in 2023 is his fifth chapbook, The Arcane Mechanics of Constant Lift (winner, Sheila-Na-Gig Chapbook…
Madelaine Caritas Longman
Madelaine Caritas Longman was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She now lives and writes in Montreal. Her poetry has appeared or is scheduled to appear in Room, filling Station, Frogpond, and Matrix, among other publications. Madelaine attends Concordia University, where she is completing a…
Ellen Girardeau Kempler
Ellen Girardeau Kempler is an award-winning nonfiction writer and poet. After a 25-year career in nonprofit communications, a layoff inspired her to enroll in a poetry workshop in Ireland and launch her website, Gold Boat Journeys (Creative Cultural Travel). Since then, she has organized trips around events such as writers'…
Lynn Houston
Lynn Marie Houston has published poetry in over thirty literary journals, such as the Ocean State Review, Broad River Review, Heavy Feather Review, Gravel, Painted Bride Quarterly, and in her book-length collections: The Clever Dream of Man (Aldrich Press), The Mauled Keeper (Main Street Rag, forthcoming), and Chatterbox (Word Poetry…
Trent Busch
Although I grew up in rural West Virginia, I have lived here in Georgia for many years now and have discovered that the warm weather and slow pace fit me. I own a small place out in the country where I have a workshop and build furniture. I make coffee…
Jeff Shearer
Jeff Shearer was born in Portland, Oregon and spent his early years in the Pacific Northwest. After attending Whitman College, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee where he taught high school and later moved into the world of financial services. While making a living in finance and technology, he kept his…
Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2016
Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
The Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry
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Award-Winning Poems 2017
Award-winning poems curated by Jendi Reiter
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Linda Baer, Winfred Cook, and L.S. Johnson Win the 2nd Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books
Ten authors of outstanding self-published books received $6,500 in prizes from Winning Writers
Linda Baer, Winfred Cook, and L.S. Johnson Win the 2nd Annual North Street Book Prize for Self-Published Books
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its second annual North Street Book Prize competition for self-published books. Linda L.T. Baer of Charleston, SC won first prize in Creative Nonfiction & Memoir for Red Blood, Yellow Skin. Winfred Cook of Oakland, CA won first prize in Mainstream/Literary Fiction…
The Smoke of Dreams
By Reena Ribalow
Buck Studies
By Douglas Kearney
Thief in the Interior
By Phillip B. Williams
Subscriber News: February 2017
Recent honors and publications earned by our newsletter subscribers
Clumping
By Carol Smallwood
Return of the Convict
Critique by Jendi Reiter Return of the Convict by William Alan Thomas is a science fiction adventure novel that takes its central conflict from Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. An ambitious, rule-following young man makes the unwelcome discovery that his benefactor is a transported convict who has illegally returned to interfere…
Winged
Critique by Jendi Reiter Like its protagonist, April Kelly's novel Winged is a hybrid creature: a contemporary family drama, a magical-realist fable, and a meditation on how we support our children (or not) when their dreams take them far away from us. Winged takes place in everyday modern America, with…
North Street Book Prize 2016
Honoring the best self-published books in literary fiction, genre fiction, and creative nonfiction
Vacui Magia
Critique by Ellen LaFleche The writing in L.S. Johnson's winning collection of short horror stories, Vacui Magia, is beautifully lyrical and metaphorical. The stories blur in psychologically imaginative ways the boundary between horror and fantasy. The protagonists are women in a variety of challenging situations; the magical twists in each…
Some Measure of Happiness
Critique by Jendi Reiter Lee Wicks' Some Measure of Happiness is an intimate novel about a year in the life of a group of friends in Cooper Hill, Vermont, as they cope with bereavement, midlife crises, troubled children, and the challenges of being newly single in a clique of couples.…
Bela’s Letters
Critique by Ellen LaFleche In Béla's Letters, Jeff Ingber, the son of Jewish Holocaust survivors, has written an epic novel that is girded by a real-life treasure trove of letters written by his ancestors before and during the Holocaust. I love books that teach me not only facts but new…
Uncle Otto
Critique by Jendi Reiter Winfred Cook's novel Uncle Otto is an emotionally gripping family saga and a worthy addition to the literature of African-American history. In the tradition of Alex Haley's Roots and Queen, Cook uses research about his forebears as raw material for dramatizing a representative story of racial…
The Year the Trees Didn’t Die
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Mary J. Koral's The Year the Trees Didn't Die is a lovely book. The strength of this memoir about foreign adoption derives from its clear narration and character exploration rather than verbal pyrotechnics. The author and her husband's struggles with infertility led them to adopt three…
Mind Your Head
Critique by Jendi Reiter The subtitle of Jordan Cosmo's raw and politically timely memoir Mind Your Head says it all: “The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Suicidal Queer Christian Missionary Kid”. Their coming-of-age story is both funny and painful, as they document the absurdities of their Christian subculture and…
Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Many teachers of English caution against using too many adjectives when writing. But that rule has been temporarily suspended for the purpose of this critique; it's impossible to discuss Mary Ellen Sanger's memoir Blackbirds in the Pomegranate Tree without using as many superlative adjectives as possible.…
Red Blood, Yellow Skin
Critique by Ellen LaFleche Red Blood, Yellow Skin by Linda L.T. Baer is one of the most compelling books in the two-year history of the North Street Book Prize. This winning memoir is an important contribution to the history of the Vietnam War and deserves a place on course syllabi.…
William Alan Thomas
William Alan Thomas took a BA in English at the University of Chicago in the 1960's, and his first novel, Daddy's Darling Daughter, was published in 1974. Life was to sweep him far from the world of books, as he fell in love with the seafood business, acquired an old…
