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Ma’am I’m Sorry to Tell You Your Son is D—
rouzan
for rouzan al-najjar 1997-2018 When we heard you were shot, wrapping bandages round generations shattered into spirits of bone, we said your name, rouzan, and the fricative cut echoes in The Wall. Heal, sister, in the frayed history of a flag's broken spine climbing out of the sand. The wounds…
Umami
In 1908 Professor Kikunae Ikeda identified a unique basic taste along with sweet, sour, bitter, or salty: umami, meaning “savory” or “meaty” in Japanese, was acknowledged by scientists in 1985. —Kumiko Ninomiya She was our first taste borne in mothers' milk. Liquid pearls pooled in our crimson muscled mouths famished…
my gender
1 my gender is driftwood carried by tide hoarded by octopus captured in mouths of fish dropped by surf on shore my gender is the way the leaves turn toward the sky before soft showers the canyoning of snails the lapping of puddles my gender is snow thundering off a…
Migration
I want to write something about birds—Goldfinches or Blue Jays, flight patterns, how a love of acorns helped propagate oak trees after the Ice Age. Or, maybe, how Blue Jays aren't really blue but brown, the blue— a reflection of scattering light on the surface of their feather barbs. And…
afterimage
for Richard Roe The black van pulled up in front of the house. A team of men who moved quickly, like ex- football players, rang the doorbell. They didn't wait long to knock hard enough to dent the door's bright paint. under the swelling moon all colors change except black…
Fishhook / Anchor
a haibun for my Grandpa as you raise me onto the wooden deck, unlatching the fishhook from my shirt, I try to speak, but cough up ugly noises instead. amid oceans heavy with summer smog, anything can be turned into myth—you pull me close, cradling me like a fledgling fallen…
Aubade with Lobotomized Mountain
my mother refused an epidural so I'd never mispronounce anything. we drove past the mountains once & the radio trembled as if kissed by static or God. I'm a sharkish girl, rude mouth, new molars jagged as cliffs. me & dad sit in the dip of the Vandross & he…
Death Sestina
Don't write a sestina unless you mean it, unless grief's garotte is cutting off the air to your lungs, aiming a hollow-point bullet at your head; unless the blood in your temples is slamming the word Now against your brainpan's drum, & your eyes feel they're about to pop &…
Oil Painting as a Form of Lying
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Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest 2023
Congratulations to the winners of the 21st annual Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest!
Sestina for My Daughter
Illustration by Robin Larisch Wet with slap-startled tears, my lips began to count the days that would map to months (nine). Forty weeks of steady incline. My poppyseed maybe-baby would deliver emetic rumbles as we climbed. Back when it was still just us, I slept curled around her. Eyes squeezed…
Spencer Chang
Spencer Chang is pursuing a BA in Linguistics and Computer Science at Duke University. His work has appeared in RABBIT, Eunoia Review, The Rising Phoenix Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2021 YoungArts Finalist in Poetry.
Maya Salameh
Maya Salameh is the author of How To Make An Algorithm In the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022) and rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). She is the recipient of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and a Finalist for the California Book Award. She has served as a National Student…
Clif Mason
Clif Mason lives with his wife, a visual artist, on the edge of a forest in Bellevue, Nebraska. He is the author of one full-length collection, Knocking the Stars Senseless (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), and three chapbooks: The Book of Night & Waking (Cathexis Northwest Press Chapbook Prize),…
Maia Elsner
Maia Elsner is a writer from London currently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her debut collection, Overrun by wild boars (flipped eye publishing, 2021) won the Somerset Maugham Award and was listed as one of the top ten books of 2021 by The Telegraph. Her debut nonfiction book, Dante Elsner…
Mikaela Hagen
Born and raised in Minnesota, Mikaela Hagen now lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband and cats, where she teaches middle school social studies. Her personal and professional interests include public schools, language learning, and migrations/the forces that shape them. While not a traditional training ground for poets, the 7th-grade…
Darius Simpson
Darius Simpson is a New Afrikan writer, educator, performer, and skilled living room dancer from Akron, Ohio. Much like the means of production, he believes poetry must be used for the positive social, political, and economic development of the majority of society. He aims to inspire those chills that make…
Shereen Leanne
Shereen Leanne is a daughter of Baghdad and Oromieh, raised on the rhymes and concrete chimes of Birmingham. Aged 12, she met fellow Brummy Benjamin Zephaniah whose dub poetry taught her how writing can give shape and music to liberation movements. She is currently an unsettled guest in xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam),…
Mary Chi-Whi Kim
Mary Chi-Whi Kim is a mother of two beautiful Afro-Asian children and a writer and educator who lives in Savannah, Georgia. Her essays, stories, and poems have featured in The New York Times Magazine, NPR's Snap Judgment, The Heartlands Today, Calliope, Calyx, Primavera, Many Mountains Moving, Women's Arts Quarterly, and…
Lee Desrosiers
Lee Desrosiers (they/them) is a native New Yorker who moved north to hear the crickets, and has lived in New England for the last 30+ years. Lee is currently working on two books at the same time. Their Honorable Mention poem in the 2023 Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contest is…
Ja’net Danielo
Ja’net Danielo is the author of This Body I Have Tried to Write, winner of the MAYDAY 2022 Poetry Micro Chapbook Editors’ Choice Award, and The Song of Our Disappearing (Paper Nautilus, 2021). A recipient of a Courage to Write Grant from the de Groot Foundation, a Professional Artist Fellowship…
Kizziah Burton
Kizziah Burton grew up in the slow, soft voices of the American South in a landscape of flower gardens, forests and birdsong. She spent much of her professional life in Los Angeles working in the motion picture industry as a writer/associate producer for an award-winning travel show, and later as…
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Daniel Victor Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Ninth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its ninth annual North Street Book Prize competition. Daniel Victor of New York, New York won the Grand Prize and $10,000 for his literary novel The Evil Inclination. These category winners received $1,000 each: Michael Bracey of Maywood, Illinois, and Ruth…
Daniel Victor Wins the $10,000 Grand Prize in Our Ninth Annual North Street Book Prize Competition
Winning Writers is pleased to announce the results from its ninth annual North Street Book Prize competition
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From a Secret Location
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Only What’s Imagined by Geof Hewitt
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Who Is Jo March?
Critique by Jendi Reiter Lin Haire-Sargeant foregrounds the queer subtext of a classic novel in Who Is Jo March?, a Civil War espionage romance whose style recalls Louisa May Alcott's other career as an author of pseudonymous melodramas. As long as there have been Alcott fans, there have been readers…
When Mom Feels Great, Then We Do Too!
Critique by Jendi Reiter I have to admit, I was already won over by the title of Phyllis Schwartz's picture book, When Mom Feels Great, Then We Do Too! Or, as I like to say to my son, “If Mommy-Man ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.” This gentle story, illustrated with…
The Low Country Shvitz
Critique by Jendi Reiter Rick Lupert has the distinction of being our very first Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry winner, back in 2002. In The Low Country Shvitz, the latest in his series of whimsical travelogue poetry collections, he brings his unflagging energy and irreverence to describing a vacation with his…
The Evil Inclination
Critique by Jendi Reiter Daniel Victor's The Evil Inclination is a sensitive, tragic love story between a modern-day Romeo and Juliet who transgress religious boundaries. It's a brilliant novel that works on many levels—theological, personal, cultural—with high stakes and sharply observed humorous moments that make the characters achingly real. As…
The Angel Room
Critique by Jendi Reiter An abused teen's self-hating inner voice develops a separate existence in The Angel Room, Lee Call's insightful young adult novel about how Christian purity culture stymies healing from trauma. Fifteen-year-old Eleanor is perpetually shadowed by Creep, a Gollum-like figure whom only she can see and hear.…
Peregrination
Critique by Jendi Reiter Ned Gannon's visually stunning graphic novel Peregrination weaves together two stories of spiritually sensitive young men who wonder where they fit in the world. One is a wandering monk in a medieval fantasy realm, and the other is the modern-day schoolboy who draws the monk's adventures…
Only What’s Imagined
Critique by Jendi Reiter Geof Hewitt's meditative poetry collection Only What's Imagined is rooted in the rugged landscape and working-class culture of Vermont. In the book's foreword, National Book Award winning poet and critic Hayden Carruth compares Hewitt to Robert Frost, saying, “His poems are tough, very original, occasionally sentimental,…
Nature’s Geometry: Succulents
Critique by Jendi Reiter Gardening aficionado Russel Ray takes readers on a deep dive into his special interests in mathematics and cacti in his colorful photo book, Nature's Geometry: Succulents. Though I'm the Grim Reaper of houseplants, I take delight in the profusion of sedum and stonecrop varieties at the…
Love Like a Dog
Critique by Jendi Reiter A pit bull with a lot of heart transforms a lonely boy's life in Anne Calcagno's gripping and well-researched novel Love Like a Dog. Pits are a maligned and misunderstood breed because unscrupulous owners use them for illegal dog fights. This story shows their loyal and…
