A fond thank you to all of the poets who sent manuscripts during our annual chapbook open-reading period. It is always one of our favorite times of year. We are honored to have been entrusted with such rich work to consider.
We are happy to announce that we have selected for publication Meg Kearney's Cardiac Thrill, which will be published in September. Meg Kearney’s most recent book is All Morning the Crows, winner of the 2020 Washington Prize for poetry and silver medalist in Foreword Review’s Indies Book Award for Poetry. Meg is also author of An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now, winner of the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award; a heroic crown, The Ice Storm, was published as a chapbook in 2020 by Green Linden Press; and three verse novels for teens. Her award-winning picture book, Trouper, is illustrated by E.B. Lewis. Meg’s poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” series, and included in the 2017 Best American Poetry anthology, guest edited by Natasha Tretheway. A native New Yorker, she lives in New Hampshire and is founding director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University in Massachusetts.
We would like to honorably mention the work of the following poets, whose manuscripts stood out to us from the approximately 400 submitted:
Dom Blanco’s Autoethnography [Poems]
Alex de Voogt’s translation of Constantine Cavafy’s Eighteen