By K. Hari / First Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / at dawn on the balcony, clothesline strung up with birdsong before light and...

By Molly Pershin Raynor / Second Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry /

By Lillian Emerick Valentine / Third Place, 2024 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / My husband stands in army fatigues and ballet flats,...

By Alyson Mosquera Dutemple / Poetry / There was music wailing from room 308 late on a Sunday night and your teeth were shiny straight...

By Daniela Paraguya Sow / Poetry / Romela roams through Cebu City Library, sifting through shelves for me. Romela returns with the faded...

By Sreekanth Kopuri / Poetry / from Machilipatnam I sweep the yesterday's leaves and burn but a sense of its silence wisps out a scroll,...

By Mary Angelino / Poetry / Opening shot: the ingénue notices how they appreciate beauty— the high-backed chair at the office, leather...

By Jeddie Sophronius / Poetry / My mother delivered me to this land, her ancestral tears washed me clean after my first cry. I am the son...

By Tristan Joseph Espinoza / Poetry / Dallas is boring these days, the endless suburban outlook, that stuck look on her face, I just keep...

By Chris Barton / Poetry / On Rockaway Beach, they eat blood orange cake and suffer fashionably. How much sleep to devour one murked...

By Anon Baisch / Poetry / Burnt patterns crevice their thin shadows overnight :: the witness is consumed in the edge of darkness and we...

By Sherry Shahan / Poetry / the calendar’s voice is dark / even brine salt is gray / an endless hourglass / gray goes black / it...

By Frederick Pollack / Poetry / We have reached the smallest place. The crew doesn’t understand my plan, my map— they think some...

By Emma Bolden / Poetry / the problem with daughters is they must also be people & the problem with people is some must also be daughters...

By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion / Third Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / 8:44PM, Meijia Wu the last tour bus pulls away grandmothers...

By R.B. Simon / Second Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / A few years after I left, they tore down the shopping mall. Gentrifying...

By Nicole Buzzelli / First Place, 2023 Plentitudes Prize in Poetry / I do not wish to be saved from solitude. Bless me with it, a kiss...

By Daniel W.K. Lee / Poetry / I wonder if there will ever again be a child named Katrina here inside this sickle of the Mississippi or...

By Robin Gow / Poetry / graveyard is the whole apartment building & inside of the refrigerator & inside of every cupboard. we put shovels...

By Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias / Poetry / You hear yourself echo inside her. Knock, knock. It’s me, baby Dionysus. Look at that...

By Nicole Tiao / Poetry / I don’t understand why the sun keeps dipping below the horizon, spinning the sky into pinks and oranges and reds...