CONTENTS SRPR 49.2 2024

Lillian Yvonne-Bertram,
Judge (Maryland)

Judge's Introduction to "Everything is Prep Work," SRPR Editors' Prize Winner 2024

First Place: Ali Beheler (Nebraska)

Everything Is Prep Work

Runner-Up: Paul Cunningham (Indiana)

Plot, or, Entrance to a Red Oak

From: The Greenland

Honorable Mention: Ellie Black (Mississippi)

Uncanny Valley

Honorable Mention: Angie Minkin (California)

What to Bet on in Las Vegas

Honorable Mention: Robert Eric Shoemaker (Illinois)

Hex on Elon Musk as a Portrait of Humanity

Erin Wilson (Canada)

An Ode to Eating Liver

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett (California)

Mixed Flock

Michael Garrigan (Pennsylvania)

Schoodic Lake Ghazal

Vincent A. Cellucci (Netherlands)

the world goes forth
pacifier nomenclature

Elizabeth Fierro (Texas)

The Coldest Summer of the Rest of Our Lives

Ellery Beck (Maryland)

The End of the Boy
Four Fragments on Dysphoria

Ginger Ko (Texas)

I am not a wife
I am not a wife

Charlotte Lowell (Massachusetts)

Emerging from the Cinema, Strange Attractors Strewn Across the Red-Carpet Floor

David Greenspan (Michigan)

Self Help

Kathleen Maris Paltrineri (Iowa)

Sawmill Road
While You Sleep
Remembrance

Ian Haight (Germany)

Flickering

Madina Tuhbatullina (Nevada)

Recombinations
The Probability of Heads Turning at Street Corners

Taylor Light (Texas)

Correspondence from Coastal Oregon

Zoë Fay-Stindt (North Carolina)

Love Letter from Captain Roy’s, Des Moines

The SRPR Illinois Poet Feature
Rachel Galvin (Illinois)

Super Market (excerpt)

The SRPR Interview
Rachel Galvin and Oksana Maksymchuk (Illinois)

Interview

C.B. Stuckey (North Carolina)

I.e.

Peter Grandbois (Ohio)

Crow, late in the barking hour

Kenton K. Yee (California)

Waiting with Eurydice

Kelly Fordon (Michigan)

Poor World
A girl walks into a room

M. Brooke Wiese (New York)

My Parents, Now Living in a Petrarchan Sonnet

Adam Day (Kentucky)

Military at sand prison testimony,…
While ethereal, much grounded…
Disappears into the waves…

Brendan Constantine (California)

Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall

Brock Guthrie (Alabama)

Before the Second Civil War

Mary Robles (Texas)

Chile-Drunk

Patrick Kindig (Texas)

Gallus Domesticus Rex
As My Husband & I Stroll the Town Square

Elisabeth Preston-Hsu (Georgia)

His Nightmares Pin and Gag Him, Fabric Twisting Hard. It Didn’t Matter
Elegy with Fugitive Pigments

Jacqueline Rosado (Florida)

Portrait of an Abortion
Exit Interview with My Mother Leaving the Abortion Clinic

Brandon Amico (North Caroline)

On the First Day of the Year (6)
On the First Day of the Year (7)
On the First Day of the Year (8)

Ana Prundaru (Switzerland)

Confectionery
To the Parade of the Living

SRPR Presents Poetry For All
Joanne Diaz (Illinois)
and Abram Van Engen (Missouri)

“My Mother—Died Unpeacefully” by Victoria Chang