Poetry

Folio

Dorabella

Patricia Lockwood
Poetry

Elegy

Natasha Rao
Poetry

In Spring

Natasha Rao
Poetry

The Valley

Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Poetry

While Reading Lucille Clifton

Phillip B. Williams
Folio

Overture

Brenda Shaughnessy

Browse

Poetry

A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
poetry

Eight Radioactive Tableaux (with Venus and Adonis)

Justin Quinn
July 1, 2019
Poetry

Eleanoir and Huff’s New Blues and Gospel

Nathaniel Mackey
July 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
Poetry

Finalists

Geoffrey Hill
July 1, 2019
Men play pool in a bar at night. The Night Cafe by Vincent Van Gogh, 1888.
Poetry

Five Prose Poems

Charles Baudelaire
July 1, 2019
A bronze sculpture of a boy. Augusta Savage, Gamin, 1929.
poetry

Four Days

Cornelius Eady
July 1, 2019
A stack of old issues of The Yale Review. Courtesy Pentagram
poetry

Loose Talk

Katie Donovan
July 1, 2019
A rorschach inkblot. Ninth blot of the Rorshach inkblot test by Hermann Rorschach, 1921.
poetry

My Enemy

David Danoff
July 1, 2019
A shadow of a face underneath water. Philosophy by Gustav Klimt, 1907.
poetry

Oracle

Warren Slesinger
July 1, 2019
Morning Sun by Edward Hopper, 1952
poetry

Pax

Richard Kenney
July 1, 2019
A painting of two sisters. The Two Sisters by Théodore Chassériau, 1843.
poetry

Prodigal

Deborah Diemont
July 1, 2019