January
Ode to the Steambox by Matthew Nienow
Best Line:
That arch and bridge
will form a shape of repentance.
-Fanny Howe from Three Persons
February
The Last Time I Slept in This Bed by Sara Peters
Best Line:
The poetry of the earth never ceases
Ceasing
-Dan Beachy-Quick from The Cricket and the Grasshopper
March
Sonnet by Anthony Opal
Best Line:
Across the road our neighbor starts his truck
while God, feather by feather, downs a wren
-Bruce Snider, Devotions
April
A Chair in Snow by Jane Hirshfeild
Best Line:
I’d love to be the silk-shimmer
against the curve of anyone’s arm
-Jamaal May from Hum for the Bolt
May
The Day by Geoffrey Brock
Best Line:
Now the lovers’ mouths are open-
maybe the miracle’s about to start
-Peter Coal from Song of the Shattering Vessels
June
Landays translated by Eliza Griswold
July/August
A Thank-You Note by Michael Ryan
Best Line:
We kiss on lips, where the tenses attach.
-Christina Davis from Mankindness
September
Thicket by Atsuro Riley
Best Line:
dark furlings of
tiny church feelings
-Meghan O’Rourke from Sun In Days
October
Summer by Heather Christle
Best Line:
Water skips
undressed
over outcrops
-Tom Pickard from Prologue
November
Snake Oil, Snake Bite by Dilruba Ahmed
Best Line:
in the earth a corpse snapped
God’s rope
-Fady Joudah from Tell Life
December
Trying Fourleggedness by Rebecca Hazelton
Best Line:
I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.
-Louise Gluck from Aboriginal Landscape
the Whole Garden Will Bow 
