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Dilruba Ahmed Mother Roulade
Dan Albergotti Days Spent in One of the Other Worlds
Craig Beaven American Landscape Painting Cruelty My Father and the Quail
Elinor Benedict Usually My Dreams Mean Nothing
Linda Bierds Meriwether and the Magpie
Victoria Chang Girdling Salvinia Molesta Two Trains
Daniel Coudriet Necessary Authorities
Michelle Detorie Paperwhites Three Divinations Undertow
Rebecca Dunham Tableau
Nancy Taylor Everett Juliet and Dark Juliet and Heaven Juliet and Air Juliet and Fire
Richard Garcia Ashes of Roses Eradication of Exotic Pests
Steve Gehrke Caravaggio’s The Death of the Virgin From a Distance, I Saw Bird From The Machine Gunner’s Letters
Douglas Goetsch Redwood
James Hoch Night Crabbing
Lesley Jenike Kismet Three Go to the Zoo
Larry Levis In 1967
Ada Limón Safe From Trains
Dave Lucas Still Life
Karyna McGlynn Epistle to Elsner on the Eve of his 34th Birthday Under the Volente Raft
Allan Peterson Disposing of the Body Of Course Ordinarily Self Knowledge
Spencer Reece Florida Ghazals
David Roderick The Carriage Road Rothko’s Earth and Green, 1955
Peter Jay Shippy Red Elegy
Christine Stewart Memory of What I Should Regret National Poetry Month
Susan Terris Selektion: The Painted Girl
Emily Warn Alef: Seeding the Alphabet Beit: The House of Musing
Emily Watson Sanctuary in the Dome City
Carolyne Wright In the Yeats Class, Summer Term
Dave Zoby Jamaican Kids on a Painted Skiff