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won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s premier prize, the Edgar Allen Poe Memorial in 2013 and again in 2014. He won the University of Tennessee

his work has appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), Place of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry

his latest book is Church of the Adagio and his previous book, Gimme Five, won the 2012 Blue Light Press Award. He appears in Scribner’s Best

has her MFA from University of Southern Maine–Stonecoast. She most recently placed poems in Cider Press Review and Apalachee Review. In

is a Maine Native and a recent graduate from College of The Atlantic. She works seasonally in Bar Harbor and spends her free time traveling and

his poetry has appeared in Image, Callaloo, Prairie Fire, and Grain Magazine, among other journals. New work is forthcoming in the Texas Review

is a poet and high school English teacher. Her poems have appeared in The 2008 Poets Guide to New Hampshire, Currents V: Seacoast Writers

by Philip Dacey “My mother never let me wear black; now I wear black all the time.”

by Bruce Holsapple Opened window by the sink dark wind clattering thru wood blinds — reminds me, washing dishes, of an island breeze & it is,

by James Rioux Forgive me this silly little riddle: of how the world keeps giving me these bruised sunsets pooling into night, the endless jokes