OCTOBER 2020: CONTEST ISSUE. Cover Art: Rose Window by Erin Case, 2013, paper collage. (Artist Website)
InTRODUCING THE WINNER: LAURA VILLAREAL
Ada Limón, Contest Judge
Laura Villareal
Winner of the 2020 Coniston Prize
Artwork Courtesy of the Library of Congress, the Biodiversity Heritage Library, and the Getty Museum
Girl’s Guide to Leaving
Crush
Home is Where the Closet Is
Heart Attack
Maybe It’s the New Moon
HILLARY BERG
Finalist, 2020 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Hillary Berg
‘Yote
Smoke
When Horses Drink At Night
Cash Out
Broomtail
Breaking Long Teeth
Mary Craig
Finalist, 2020 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Rebecca Cross
Dendrochronology
Simon’s Piñata
Endurance
Perigee
SHANNON ELIZABETH HARDWICK
Finalist, 2020 Coniston Prize
Artwork Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
I See Him As
Naming Ceremony
I Used To Be The Instigator
How One Returns to the Country of her Rapist
Bonding
JESSICA HINCAPIE
Finalist, 2020 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Kelly Cressio-Moeller
coping mechanism
bloomer
postlapsarian Poem
How the Dead Sing Behind the rhododendron
the windowsill
fever spell
Amy Miller
Finalist, 2020 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Matt Witt
Capsule
Tin Box
Astronauts
What We Do
Questions About This Mission
Radio Silence
Meredith Stricker
Finalist, 2020 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Sofia Ortiz
The Girls
The Space Between Each Letter & Cloud
In The Ache
The Tenacity Of Flowering
Big Starry
Green Furnace
Sarah Wolfson
Finalist, 2020 Coniston Prize
Artwork Courtesy of the Library of Congress