"Song"

"There Is No Sound in Space"

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Judge Ellen Bass wrote: "This poem skillfully plants the very specific grief of a parent into the vastness of the universe. The poem creates the reality of how singular our own suffering is in hugeness of space. And then, at the end, joins the personal with the literally universal, proposing that if there were sound in space "we might hear wind/and wailing." And goes on to imagine space as a desert and "the sting [of loose sand] against my shins./A wind with small teeth." A precise and haunting image."

"Scientists Determine Time Perception Varies Between Animals"

 "Raising Glaciers"

Judge Katie Manning wrote, “I love this poem’s insistence on hope in the face of environmental loss.”

"Sometime in the Late Age of a Long Marriage"

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Judge Ellen Bass wrote: "This poem has such genuine tenderness. Sentiment without sentimentality. The love is palpable--between the man and woman and from the daughter who is able to look at them so clearly, a true poet's eye. I care about these people. That's a lot for a poem to accomplish."

"Amanita Phalloides"

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"When the Sky Tips"

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"Preop"

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"Expanse, Immensity, Collapse"

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"Bones"

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Judge Karen Craigo wrote:

"I had the misfortune of suffering a sleep-related injury that resulted in a condition called frozen shoulder, so I think I was exactly the reader this poem was looking for. The effort to come to some sort of détente with the body is one I can relate to quite well, and this poet nailed it: “I feel more and more the absence / of wings ….” Yes, indeed. Every damn year."

"The Story They Are Telling Now"

"Sometime in the Late Age

of a Long Marriage"

"Amanita Phalloides"

"Preop"

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"My Mother Suggests a Tranquilizer"

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"Tammi Calls from Walmart"

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"A Rock Is a Rock Is a Rock"

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"Amanita Phalloides"

"Preop"

"You Can't Even Remember

What I'm Trying to Forget"

Each Bearing Out

"Rove",

"A Geography"

"My Son Says We Have No Culture"

"RED"

"I Remember How I Believed"