ZPR 2019 Anthology

January

Annual Self-Preservation Scrutinization by M. Kaat Toy

Strange But True by Bruce McRae

Overheard at the Women’s Shelter by Susan Weaver

A Body Found by Will Reger

To the Mother of the Suicide Bomber by Tricia Knoll

Clemens Kalischer by Mark Jackley

February

City of Bread by Marc Janssen

Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife by Alex Stolis

March

Manumission: A Codependent Romance by KJ Hannah Greenberg

Bonfire of the Virtues by Jim Kotowski

Three-Window Perspectives by Ellen Chia

April

Intravenous Nutrition by Elise Barker

Safe Way to Go? by Gerard Sarnat

Chaninah by Steve Pollack

Above Asphalt by Carol Hamilton

May

Protection by F.I. Goldhaber

Somebody Else’s Poetry by Ella Baum

First Mother’s Day without Mom by Ginger Dehlinger

June

Depression by Doug Van Hooser

Portrait of My Mother by Kathy Nelson

Gleeful by Christina M. Rau

In the Era of Collective Thought by Gary Fincke

July

Homage to the Horny Toad by Chuck Taylor

Elegy with Ice Cream by Kathy Nelson

Neighborhoods I’ve Yearned For by Michelle Grue

Of the Palm by Toti O’Brien

August

The Kiss by George Cassidy Payne

A City Like a Dead Man by Jake Sheff

Eden by Kayleigh Macdonald

a modern sonnet by Cleopatra Lim

Paperplane letters by Kristina Gibbs

When I Got My Ears Pierced by Sophie Cohen

September

Plans by Jen Schneider

remnants by Bara Elhag

In Dissent by Tom D’Angelo

On Packing the Only Painting You Left by Daniel Crasnow

green by Molly Flanagan

I Would by Hugh Cook

October

Columbus Day by Jenny McBride

November

Un Chien Andalou by James Penha

Like dublin by DS Maolalai

Ugliness came up by Kitty Jospé

A Sun of Unknown Night by Hongri Yuan

A Spring of Loss by Shearle Furnish

Six Poems for Autumn from the ZPR Archives

December

A Dog’s Life by Anne Whitehouse

Fortune by Dana Delibovi

A letter to Campbell McGrath about Polaroids at a yard sale by Ralph Long Jr.

Taming My Mother’s Tongue by Zoë Christopher

Spurious Claims by Mark Tulin

Loss by Sandy Feinstein

Then…as Now by KL Frank

A Body in the Body of the Universe by Micki Blenkush