The most brilliant, the most beautiful, the ones that eloquently grabbed me where I live. Read them all.
Long Poems (51+ lines)
- Davian Aw, “hush / it might not get better / give us silence” (Stone Telling #13)
- Kim Eun-byeol, “phoenix fire, tabula rasa” (Stone Telling #13)
- Jessica Fordham Kidd, “Call her auteur but call me sunset” (Goblin Fruit, Winter)
Short Poems (11-50 lines)
- Evelyn Deshane, “Jacob’s Ladder” (Strange Horizons, December 5)
- Neile Graham, “The Sense of Beginning” (Stone Telling #13)
- Rose Lemberg, “The Ash Manifesto” (Strange Horizons, October 10)
- Amanda Lord, “The Path of Needles” (Goblin Fruit, Winter)
- Sara Polsky, “Departures” (Strange Horizons, January 11)
- Margarita Tenser, “Ecdysis” (Liminality, Issue #7)
- Hester J. Rook, “Wattle Skinned” (Liminality, Issue #8)
- Margaret Wack, “Apotropaic Magic” (Strange Horizons, January 18)
Dwarf Poems (1-10 lines):
- Holly Day, “Plate 24” (inkscrawl, Issue 10)
- S. Qiouyi Li, “Parallax” (inkscrawl, Issue 10)
- Michelle Muenzler, “The Bird Woman at Dusk” (Through the Gate, May)
- Wild Soft, “Make Safe My Light” (Stone Telling #13)