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Melissa Barrett, “The Invention of the Metal Detector”
Oliver Bendorf, “Wagon Jack” (previously published under a different title in
Debbie Benson, “Memory”
Michael Boccardo, “What No One Told Me About Autumn”
Michelle Bonczek, “Entering the Body”
Claudia Burbank, “TGIF” (previously published in The Antioch Review)
Micah Chatterton, “Now, Someday”
Darin Ciccotelli, “Superpower”
Meg Day, “Taker of the Temperature, Keeper of the Hope Chest” (previously published in Adrienne)
Aran Donovan, “two left feet” (previously published in Rattle)
Tarfia Faizullah, “Self-Portrait as Slinky” (previously published in Ninth Letter)
Jennifer Givhan, “Karaoke Night at the Asylum” (forthcoming in Indiana Review)
Andrew C. Gottlieb, “Portrait: Parsing My Wife As Lookout Creek”
Mikko Harvey, “Cannonball” (poet nominated by The Ohio State University, poem previously published in Juked)
Anna Claire Hodge, “Where We Have No Business” (previously published in Copper Nickel)
Anna Maria Hong, “Four Barrels, Jaw & Locket” (nominated by Unsplendid, where it originally appeared. Also previously published in Verse Daily.)
Erin Hoover, “On the Origin of Species” (forthcoming in Gargoyle)
Rochelle Hurt, “Poem in Which I Play the Runaway” (previously published in The Collagist)
John James, “Chthonic”
Josh Kalscheur, “Katari” (previously published in The Iowa Review)
Courtney Kampa, “Ars Biologica” (previously published in TriQuarterly)
Elizabeth Langemak, “An Apology” (previously published in C4)
Sarah Levine, “Birds are loosely folded napkins thrown into the sky”
Jason Macey, “Love Song for Cesar Vallejo”
Lo Kwa Mei-en, “Romance in Which Open Season Changes Everything” (previously published in APARTMENT Poetry)
Scott Miles, “Ode to the Gods of French Cinema”
Peter Mishler, “Fludde”
Gloria Muñoz, “Your Biome Has Found You” (nominated by the University of South Florida)
Lisa Allen Ortiz, “Confection”
Elsbeth Pancrazi, “What's penciled in”
Hannah Sanghee Park, “Bang” (previously published in 32 Poems)
Laura Passin, “The Egon Schiele Art Center, Cesky Krumlov”
Jade Ramsey, “She Lives in a Pat of Butter” (previously published in Gargoyle)
Kyeren Regehr, “Eversion” (previously published in Prairie Fire)
Stephanie Rogers, “How It Kept On”
Justin Runge, “History” (previously published in Rattle)
Michael Simon, “Interstate”
Meighan L. Sharp, “Beyond Measure” (previously published in DIALOGIST)
Max Somers, “The Narrative Poem”
Benjamin Sutton, “from Footnotes on the City”
L.J. Sysko, “Just Try”
Kenny Tanemura, “Expulsion”
Chad Temples, “Waking, Waking, Singing”
Emily Van Kley, “Physical Education”
Angela Voras-Hills, “Preserving”
Corrie Lynn White, “Gravy”
Derek JG Williams, “Ode to the Tongue” (previously published in Knockout Literary Magazine)
Cori A. Winrock, “Débridement” (previously published in Versal)
Amy Woolard, “A Girl Gets Sick of a Rose” (nominated by Smartish Pace, where it originally appeared)
Javier Zamora, “This Was The Field” (nominated by New York University)