Contents - 44.2 Winter 2019

Rachel Webster, Judge (Illinois)

Judge’s Introduction to “The Mammoth Steppe,” SRPR Editors’ Prize Winner 2019

First Place: Mirande Bissell (Maryland)

The Mammoth Steppe

Runner-Up: Abigail McFee (Massachusetts)

 I Thought I Was the Scream that Woke Me

Runner-Up: Alex Chertok (New York)

After 6 weeks apart
Honorable Mention: Mitchell Untch (California)

Burning the Field

Honorable Mention: Andrea Deken (Oregon)

Evolution
Honorable Mention: Robin Rosen Chang (New Jersey)

Hoodoos

Honorable Mention: Harry Bauld (New York)

Arizona

Kári Tulinius (Iceland)
tranalsted by Larissa Kvzer (New York)

PICT URED
SPLE NDOR
KIDS KEEP
PAST SAFE
Reykjavík Summer 2012

Peter Twal (Arizona)

Terrible Parable
Relative Quiet

Margaret Everton (Oregon)

The Baker’s Lament

Alexandria Peary (New Hampshire)

The Real Deal

Aaron Coleman (Missouri)

Wilma Rudolph Contemplates Her Stride
He Won’t Give Up, I Won’t Give Up

Elizabeth Vignali (Washington)

Endangered: The Golden Lion Tamarin
Threatened: The Trumpeter Swan

Jake Syersak (New Jersey)

Verses Out of the Vortex(t): Prison Vortex
Verses Out of the Vortex(t): Isle Vortex

Brent House (Pennsylvania)

Pastoral

Joel Long (Utah)

from Discarded Toys
Carne

Natalie Homer (Pennsylvania)

Dear Idaho

Tóroddur Poulsen (Denmark)
translated by Matthew Landrum (Michigan)

31.
63.

Meredith Holmes (Ohio)

I Miss

Kirstin Hotelling Zona (Illinois)

SRPR Illinois Poet Redux

Joanne Diaz (Illinois)

Electrolux

Austin Smith (California)

Lilies

Joshua Corey (Illinois)

I Have Wasted My Life

Allison Joseph (Illinois)

Ode to Earplugs

Jason Bredle (Illinois)

Hymn to Evolution

Rachel Webster (Illinois)

Beside the Smith River

Jacob Saenz (Illinois)

Ghost Fathers

Katy Didden (Indiana)

Tumbling Down My World

Ann Hudson (Illinois)

Last Day

Laura Van Prooyen (Texas)

Noise Canceling Poem

Ira Sukrungruang (Ohio)

Sighting

Angela Narciso Torres (Florida)

The Last Time

Michael VanCalbergh (Illinois)

To My Father on Being a Father
The Coin
Trickle Down

Matthew Gellman (New York)

Yellowjackets

Devin Balwit (Oregon)

15 Seeds Tucked into Furrows

Ruthvika Rao (Michigan)

The Performance Plan

Adam Greenberg (Washington, DC)

From Cliffs of the Indian Southwest: IV.&VI.

Julia Cohen (Illinois)

Your First Crush Sleepwalks
With My Ventricle I Rip of the Left Wing of the Airplane

Crystal Willer (Ohio)

But of Course
A Small Example

Ceridwen Hall (Utah)

accompaniment

Chaun Ballard (Alaska)

Recoil
Protest Poem

Diego Báez (Illinois)

The SRPR Review Essay: Migrant Poets Amid the Mire of Republican Antinepantla