You are currently browsing the daily archive for December 23, 2011.
My favorite poems from each issue along with the first runner up. Plus, my favorite line or lines from each issue.
Jan:
Rae Armantrout : Just Saying
David Harsent : Moppet
Feb:
Thomas Lynch : He Posits Certain Mysteries
Alicia Ostriker : Song
Mar:
Paul Hoover : The Watchman of Ephraim
Kabir (tr. by A.K. Mehrotra) : Brother, I’ve seen some
Apr:
Atsuro Riley : Sunder
Averill Curdy : Ovid in America
May:
Malachi Black : from Quarantine
Sophia Cabot Black : The One Turn That Makes the New World
Jun:
Edith Sodergran (tr. by Brooklyn Copeland) : The Portrait
Labid (tr. by Ange Mlinko) : Lament
July/Aug:
David St. John : In the High Country
David Ferry : The Crippled Girl, The Rose
Sept:
Reginald Dwayne Betts : “For you: anthophilous, lover of flowers”
Mary Ruefle : Shalimar
Oct:
D. A. Powell : Boonies
Rae Armantrout : Spent
Nov:
Olivia Clare : Enoch’s Blocks
John Rybicki : If
Dec:
Dan Beachy-Quick : In a Station of the Metro
Dick Allen : With Drizzled Warm Butter, Intensely Rendered
