Contents - 46.2 Winter 2021

Aimee Nezhukumatathil,
Judge (Mississippi)

Judge’s Introduction to “diary of a dead eel boy,”
SRPR Editors' Prize Winner 2021

First Place: Dean Gessie (Canada)

diary of a dead eel boy

Runner-Up: Shannon Pulusan (New Jersey)

Runner-Up: donia salem harhoor (New Jersey)

Honorable Mention: Matthew Brailas (Connecticut)

Elegy

Burning Fake Money

Honorable Mention: Ani Tuzman (Massachusetts)

Orange Stars

Pink Soup!

Honorable Mention: Gabriel Jesiolowski (Maryland)

Entry for an Inverted Flower

Wendy Guerra (Cuba)
Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson (Maryland) and Esperanza Hope Snyder (Colombia)

A Cabala of Castoffs
From Pompeii
Excess Baggage
The Prince and the Pauper
Consulted Archives

Emily Butler (Massachusetts)

Ghost House

Daniel Barnum (Connecticut)

Fireflies

Ọlákìtán Aládéṣuyì

When Mother Kisses

Emma DePanise (Indiana)

Goliath Frog Drives Me to the Emergency Room after I Fracture Both My Arms

Jacqueline Krass (Wisconsin)

Subpoenas

Abigail McFee (Michigan)

This Year I Have Been

Kristin Fogdall (Vermont)

Oracle

Matthew J. Spireng (New York)

The Summer My Father Died

Kate O’Donoghue (Indiana)

Put Down the Bottle, Shake These New Hands

Raven

Daniel Borzutzky (Illinois)

Introducing the SRPR Illinois Poet
Day #1103
I don't know
Lake Michigan, Scene 520
Before I die
Lake Michigan, Scene #1130
Lake Michigan, Scene #1201 (Nonessential Personnel)
Dream Song 527–528
Risk Management
Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018

Daniel Borzutzky and Carlos Soto-Román (Chile)

The SRPR Interview: Daniel Borzutzky

Robert Rothman (California)

Raccoon

Frank Jamison (Tennessee)

Moonshine
Praise Song for Waking

Geula Geurts (Israel)

The Epicenter of Dawn

Nathan Manley (New Hampshire)

City in Winter

Peter Leight (Massachusetts)

When I’m Looking for a Door

Joe Rupprecht (Pennsylvania)

it’s for you again

William Virgil Davis (Texas)

Philosophy

Rebecca Macijeski (Louisiana)

Death Attends a New England Burial

Ann E. Michael (Pennsylvania)

Exploratory Mechanisms

Ann Pedone (California)

Aristophenes, the Clouds

Becka Mara McKay (Florida)

Poem That Takes Anatomical Liberties
Poem as Loose Brick in the Smokestack

Donna Pucciani (Illinois)

From the Naked Tree

John Palen (Illinois)

The Kids Call Home

Rebecca Yates (Minnesota)

Coronavirus Poem #19
Meeting the New Boyfriend, 31 Years Old

Ben Gunsberg (Utah)

Good Mix

Shaun Anthony McMichael (Washington)

The Heartening

Antonia Pozzi (Italy)
Translated by Amy Newman (Illinois)

Twilight Return

Camille Carter (Montana)

Stasis

Craig Greenman (New Hampshire)

Bachelor
Thoughts on the Banking Crisis
Council Meeting

Timothy Dodd (Pennsylvania)

Visions, Away

Alina Ştefănescu (Alabama)

“And We Really Didn’t Know”: Song of Eastern Bloc Immigrant Children
First Elegy
Leaflostness
Even the Air is Violet Between Us
The Apogee of Fabulousness May Be Sadness

Andrew Dorkin (Georgia)

The SRPR Review Essay: Seriousness, Humorously