CONTENTS
2023 JAMES WELCH PRIZE
WINNERS
FINALISTS
IBE LIEBENBERG
while we were quiet
birds at night
ANNIE WENSTRUP
Ggugg’uyni in the Museum Parking Lot
TACEY ATSITTY
Nayéé’ Goes to Therapy
CHEYANNE LOZANO
Hosh
MARY LEAUNA CHRISTENSEN
At the Casino Hotel on the Rez
AIMEE INGLIS
Coyote Poem
M. S. REDCHERRIES
playing america in win[t]er
NICOLE WALLACE
Inheritance
POETRY
ROBERT WOOD LYNN
At the Monster Truck Rally
RADHA MARCUM
The Distance Between Thought and Perception
JAKE VERMAAS
[ playing in ruins, in wonder ]
K. IVER
god,
RODRIGO TOSCANO
Sentinels
AMANDA MARET SCHARF
I-40 W
ANUJA GHIMIRE
going to hell in Nebraska
KRISTIN FOGDALL
Power Lines Along the Coast
ANUEL RODRIGUEZ
Purple Autumn
J. C. TALAMANTEZ
A Quality of Light
CYNTHIA MARIE HOFFMAN
Angel Number Seven
Conkers
CHRISTIAN GULLETTE
The Fish
SUPRITHA RAJAN
Meditations on the Peach, and Some Other Ideas Adhering Thereto
ROOJA MOHASSESSY
Madar
ROBERT CORDING
Two Women
LIANE TYRREL
My Father Flying Above Me in Winter
HEATHER CHRISTLE
Description of Work in Progress
The Instructions Say Talk to Your Baby
CATALINA OCAMPO LONDOÑO
Dig
JOSHUA GARCIA
Retrograde
NAIMA KARCZMAR
between bouts, mace me
SIERRA NELSON
Does Her Head Come Off and It’s Perfume?
KEITH T. FANCHER
Ugly Light
MEGAN J. ARLETT
Meditation at Lagunitas in American Sign Language
RIAN RHOE
This is Our Everest
TOLA SYLVAN
Washing an eggplant
ABBIE KIEFER
Eye Exam Nearing Mid-Life
KÉCHI NNE NOMU
Landscape with My Father’s Phantoms
Bijou
LAURA READ
Sylvia, you can’t leave your shoes!
JAMES CIANO
Night Gardening
CAROLINA HOTCHANDANI
Eternal Pistachios
MÓNICA GOMERY
Still Life with Riot and Hospital Wedding
LEAH SILVIEUS
Original Sin
PREETI VANGANI
After You Died
AUGUSTA FUNK
The One Who Was Sunday
H. R. WEBSTER
Grief, for Winnifred
KAREN AN-HWEI LEE
Robot-Proof Verse
JOHN KINSELLA
Argonautica Inlandica
SHIN YU PAI
At the side of the road, Desert X
MOLLY STURDEVANT
Horsetooth Rock Cartogram
MARIA ZOCCOLA
helen of troy in the delivery ward
JULIA EDWARDS
Another houseplant dies while I consider the transcendental
KATHERINE WHITCOMB
Sleepless Ode
DORSEY CRAFT
Sunbathing Five Months Pregnant
RU FREEMAN
The Japanese Maple Has Reached Maturity but I Am Still a Child
MIGUEL CORONADO
Study from a Bull
LAUREN TESS
Hoverfly
HOLLI CARRELL
Morning Sun
XIAO YUE SHAN
starting from everyday when there was something I had to rush home and tell you about
oh! to be young in beijing!
SUSAN NGUYEN
Landscape with Girl and Buffalo
A Small Flame
C. R. GONZÁLEZ
Gringo Nalga Moreno
JENNIFER K. SWEENEY
Do you remember the day you wanted to remember everything?
WILLIAM JOHNSON
Mergansers
FEATURES
CROSSINGS
HUMBERTO AK’ABAL
(trans. Michael Bazzett)
Ten Poems
PRESENTING
ZIYI YAN
Fish
HOW TO
ADELE ELISE WILLIAMS
Leave a Mark
I CALL IT JOY
ARTWORK
LEHUAUAKEA
