Awards 43
Fall/Winter 2021, Vol. 65, No. 1
Editor’s Note: Eilis O’Neal
Fiction
Celine Aenlle-Rocha: “White Black People”
Paula Closson Buck: “The Inventories”
Rachel Reeher: “God Is in Your Body”
Jennifer Blackman: “Wife of; or, What Does It Mean to Be Haunted?”
Rachel Furey: “A Dolphin in Pain”
Teresa Milbrodt: “The Southern Part of the State”
Edvin Subašić: “Thug”
Poetry
Emily Rose Cole: “Unblues #2,” “The Miss Sally Sonnets,” “In the midst of the outbreak, I think of my mother,” “In the midst of the outbreak, I develop a burial plan,” “Spell for Patience”
Julie Marie Wade: “/NOW/”
Francesca Bell: “Some Were Weary with Their Edges Worn Out,” “Quarry,” “Like a Friend,” “Learning to Love the World that Is”
Angela Sucich: “Match Game,” “Oracle,” “Everything I Love I Want to Consume,” “The Snow Child”
Kate Kingston: “Whiteout,” “Ordinary Day,” “After My Brother’s Memorial”
Corrinne Clegg Hales: “Silent Stroke”
Sunu P. Chandy: “Practice raking leaves or sweeping to remind oneself of the feeling of engaging in work that knows no end”
Adrie Rose: “I will make a study—again—,” “Separation,” “Swaddle,” “Every Villain Is the Hero of Their Own Story”
Sandra Fees: “On the Consolatory Pleasure of Jigsaws”
Jessica Pierce: “Some comfort,” “Finding my copy of The Children’s Book of Saints,” “To donate: to make a gift of,” “Talking about Buddhism with teenagers”
Carolyn Oliver : “In Another Life, You Live,” Eve and Bridget Bishop Whisper on Gallows Hill,” “Night Ocean”
Rachel Edelman: “No matter, my treads are lined with Kevlar”
Zack Lesmeister: “On the Lineage of Survival; a Series of Exit Strategies,” “Birds of Prey”
Liz Marlow: “The Last Rosh Hashanah in Treblinka,” “Thunderstorm”
Mara Adamitz Scrupe: “an episode in archaeology/ a scar,” “Field work/ Cass County 1938,” “Jump”
Kathleen Holliday: “In a Monastery Garden”
William Snyder: “Mas at Saintes Maries de la Mer”
Richard Robbins: “The Oratory of All Souls”
Apol: “Vanishing Point,” “Stigmata,” “Gift,” “Spectral”
Connor Yeck: “Hold for Release till End of the World Confirmed,” “The Walk-Back”
Christina Hutchins: “Thwaites Glacier,” “String Theory,” “All We Could Do Was Laugh”
Sally Lipton Derringer: “Target”
Amy Miller: “Doing Laundry for a Friend,” “First Masks,” “Linda Vista”
Caroline Earleywine: “When I Think of Parenthood,” “Bible Belt Gay,” “Ode to my Wife’s Gender,” “Broken Ghazal”
Gail Rudd Entrekin: “Wind,” “The Current that Language Makes Visible”
Cynthia White: “Ode to the Wandering Womb,” “Tongue”
Dan Albergotti: “Tongue & Torque,” “Inscription in the Wake”
Siew David Hii: “help—my brother is a fascist”
Anthony Thomas Lombardi: “Ruinenlust”
John McCarthy: “The Little Egypt Dive Bar Elegy”
Harley Anastasia Chapman: “When I Say My Father Is Homeless, I Mean,” “In the Nightmare,” “The Shape of Animal”
Kyoko Uchida: “And Love,” “Quarantine,” “Detour,” “Winter”
John Blair: “Eclogue 18: The House that’s Not the End of the World,” “Eclogue 5: Beautiful Words Are Not the Truth”