Contents - 43.2 Winter 2018

Li-Young Lee, Judge (Illinois)

Judge’s Introduction to “Immigration Algorithm (Application Form D (3) b (1) a),” SRPR Editors’ Prize Winner 2018

First Place: Mark Svenvold (New York)

Immigration Algorithm (Application Form D (3) b (1) a)

Runner-Up: David Wright (Illinois)

Runner-Up: Chad Foret (Mississippi)

That Which Shines

Honorable Mention: Ed Frankel (California)

Singing Lullabies in Dangerous Places

Honorable Mention: Timothy McBride (North Carolina)

Soudure

Honorable Mention: Lan Duong (California)

In This House

Joshua Corey (Illinois)

The Works and Days of the Black Paintings

Katy Didden (Indiana)

The Aqueduct
What Taught Us Trees

Chanel Brenner (California)

We Never Heal, Just Remember Less

Lauren Breyer (Illinois)

Milk

Angela Narciso Torres (California)

Introducing the SRPR Illinois Poet
Translating the Dead
Slash-and-Burn
Pearl Diving
Disappearing Act
Sea Psalm
The Morning I Hear
The Abscission Layer
Lines Borrowed from a Marriage and Other Places
Friday Night
Ode to the Areola
Amores Perros
What Happens Is Neither the End

Angela Narciso Torres and Joanne Diaz (Illinois)

The SRPR Interview: Angela Narciso Torres

Sasha Banks (New York)

If He Won’t Be Free, I Do Not Want Him
Still
Love Is the Eye

Sara Tuss Efrik (Sweden)
Translated by Paul Cunningham (Georgia)

The Hiding Place
The Dark Summer

Emily Rosello Mercurio (New York)

Convallaria

Jules Gibbs (New York)

Target

Jaclyn Dwyer (Ohio)

Prayer That Isn’t Prayerful and Maybe Not Even Hopeful
When She Asks

Ashwak Fardoush (New York)

That Blue Night in New Mexico

Beth Steidle (New York)

101

Susan Terris (California)

from Dream Fragments

Mahnaz Yousefi (Iran)
Translated by Sadjad Qolami (Iran)

To Suffer, Unlike Not to Suffer, Is Not Difficult
To the Bedside

Paul Cunningham (Georgia)

The Word Is Piercing
The Word Is Calling
The Word Is Small

Nichole Goff (Arizona)

Bluelake

Gabriel Ojeda-Sague (Illinois)

When I'm Afraid with You
River
One Tool of Many
Spending
An Illustration

Caroline Plasket (Kentucky)

Every Night for Almost a Year, My Mother Cared for My Father’s Mother

Karen An-Hwei Lee (California)

Meditation on Fourteen Gratitudes and Radiolucence
On the Turning of the Year
Dear Millennium, Toss Everything in the River and Read Celan
Dear Millennium, on Little Valentines as Micro-Corpuscles

Brian Rejack (Illinois)

The SRPR Review Essay: Taking Joy in Keats, the Comedian Poet