ZPR 2020 Anthology

January

A letter to M. F. K. Fisher about Thai leftovers in the morning by Ralph J. Long Jr.

Two Girls Sit on a Patchwork Couch by Chloe Kerr-Stein

February

The Year We Learned about Tet by Gary Finke

Mad Love by Chuck Taylor

March

Stay-At-Home Mom by Sabina M. Säfsten

April

All This Because of a Polish Ship by Jan Chronister

Today the dog is tired of me by DS Maolalai

Listening To Poetry That I Don’t Understand by John F. McMullen

Hurt Friends by Max Reese

Maybe It was Spring by Luanne Castle

Sound the Trumpet by Edith Friedman

Landing in Snow-Covered Landscape by Anneliese Schneider

Blackbird by Yvette R. Murray

Balm by Anne Whitehouse

Things to Be Grateful for During the American Winter by Michael Brockley

Because I Like to Make My Mind Pretty the Way We’re Told to Make our Bodies Pretty, I Work at Thinking Beautiful Things by Rebecca Macijeski

African Rice by John Short

May

The Lark Ascended by Wayne Lee

Finally Going to Tell You about the Staircase Ghost by Luanne Castle

June

American Shop Windows by Rikki Santer

Cotton and Coconut by Michelle Grue

Behind the Bruised Peach by Kitty Jospé

the fruit archive by Derek Berry

July

Even When by Shannen Angell

Chocolate by Michael T. Smith

grounded by Heather Laszlo Rosser

Gentle Stratigraphy by Kim Malinowski

How to Baptize a Child in Philadelphia, PA by Mike Zimmerman

Signs by Anne Whitehouse

Tug by Stephen Mead

August

Michaelangelo by Austin Smith

Dear Relationship Expert by Victoria Cybulski

Roots by Cole Westervelt

Years Go By by Haley Sui

September

Nisi Warrior by MSG (Ret) Hubert C. Jackson

split pea soup by Jan Ball

First Day at Sts. Philip and James by John C. Mannone

Hollow by Robert Beveridge

How Do We Determine What Mars Is Made Of by Christina M. Rau

Squat by Gale Acuff

Just a Snap by Kitty Jospé

October

In Step with Desire by Margaret Randall

Eyes Fastened with Poems by Lois Marie Harrod

Painting Itself Red by Kim Baker

Autumn Elegy by Ginger Dehlinger

Study of an Orange by Diana Rosen

Purple Vest by Peter Mladinic

Escape by John Short

November

Ode to the Republic by Crystal Foretia

Every Day Has Something in It by Nancy K. Jentsch

Sheets of Rain Yelling Over the Thunderous Music by Michael H. Brownstein

Living in Opryland by Javy Awan

Morsel by Jeff Burt

December

First Death by Denise Low

Grief by KB Ballentine

Emily Dickinson May Be Weary by Rikki Santer

Dusk, South Baltimore by Deborah Phelps 

Seas of Change by Marc Janssen

His Agenda by Peter Mladinic

Who Names this Child? by Nadine Ellsworth-Moran

My Sister’s Baby Blanket by Alejandro Lucero