Contents - 42.2 Winter 2017

Ewa Chrusciel, Judge (New Hampshire)

Judge’s Introduction to “Elegy for the Poppy,” SRPR Editors’ Prize Winner 2017

First Place: Kelly Michels (North Carolina)

Elegy for the Poppy

Runner-Up: Greg Emilio (Georgia)

Whenever You Eat This

Runner-Up: Erika Goodrich (Florida)

Proof of Disappearing

Honorable Mention: John Sibley Williams (Oregon)

Othering

Honorable Mention: Stephanie Kartalopoulos (Georgia)

Dispatches from a Land

Honorable Mention: Marcia B. Loughran (New York)

Vespers

Honorable Mention: Kelly Michels (North Carolina)

Communion with an olive

Honorable Mention: Greg Emilio (Georgia)

Bethesda

Karina Borowicz (Massachusetts)

Her Last Free Dive

Andrea Cohen (Massachusetts)

Forced
Bees
Summons

Nina Corwin (Illinois)

Habitat

Michael Hurley (Illinois)

Revival
Raw, Hide, Place, Body, Mark

Christopher Warner (Illinois)

I Saw in the Fire
The Turbines
Signs
A History of the Future

Minerva Reynosa (Monterrey, Mexico)
Trans. by Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (Texas)

Exclüded (Gal)
Fitnah
Phïlic
The Fellow
(H)emötoma

Laura Van Prooyen (Texas)

Introducing the SRPR Illinois Poet
Flood
Gathering
Jewel
My Brother Defines Success
Matter
One of Those Days
Norther
First Memory
Visit to the Once-Beach, South Texas
Chronic

Laura Van Prooyen and Joanne Diaz (Illinois)

The SRPR Interview: Laura Van Prooyen

Martín Cálix (Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
Trans. by Katherine M. Hedeen (Ohio)

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Lauren Mallett (Indiana)

Monstress
Mirrors Could Cost Us Our Lives

Lauren Michele Jackson (Illinois)

Something strange happens to the body when an afro is born

Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (Texas)

Stop
Women Soldiers Decide Bullets over Ballads
Las clandestinas, Rest in Peace
Signs of Lucha at the Crosswalk
The Frontera_______ and__Breath*

Elizabeth Hughey (Alabama)

Another Garden Crusade
A Call to Arms

Sally Yazwinski (Idaho)

I Would Set Myself on Fire

Mayra Oyuela (Tegucigalpa, Honduras)
Trans. by Katherine M. Hedeen (Ohio)

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Streetcar

Sarah P. Strong (Connecticut)

Fire Burns Grass
Such Fertile Land
Phone Call After a Fire

Autumn McClintock (Pennsylvania)

Fable

Janet McAdams (Ohio)

My sister said:
Nothing
The Tally Angel

Sarah Gzemski (Arizona)

Everyone hunts

Ryo Yamaguchi (Washington)

Antiquity
Exculpatory Origin Story
Innermost
Sculpture
Bell

Jennifer Rane Hancock (Colorado)

The SRPR Review Essay: The Body Apocalyptic: Recent Books from the Anthropocene