OCTOBER 2025: CONTEST ISSUE.
Cover Artist: Cheryl Gross (Artist Website, Instagram)
Sunshine Cowgirl, 2023, 30 x 22”
Acrylic, archival ballpoint, coffee, India ink, colored pencil, watercolor on paper
Diane Seuss, Contest Judge
Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager, Editors
Bo Hee Moon
Winner, 2025 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Nancy Cohen
Scent of Steamed Rice
Arrival and/or Departure Records
Pre-Remembrance
Korean Baby Doll
Mermaid Folklore
JC Andrews
Finalist, 2025 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Alexa Frangos
Dovetail for my Grandmother
My Mothers Mothers Mothers
Noah
Arkansas, June
Women Scrubbing Porches with Wet Brooms
Abbigail Baldys
Finalist, 2025 Coniston Prize
Artwork Courtesy of the Biodiversity Heritage Library
DBA/2J
C3H/HeJ
C57BL/6J
129S1/SvImJ
C3HeB/FeJ
Callista Buchen
Finalist, 2025 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Dolores Poacelli
Anticipatory Grief
The List of Terrible Things
Daily Brief
Pillow
Jenna Rozelle
Finalist, 2025 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Anna Dibble
Instinct
Wish in One Hand
Bodies
In January
Time Is
Lisbeth White
Finalist, 2025 Coniston Prize
Artwork by Desirée Alvarez
At age 11, the earth & i await my first period
At age 45, Earth & I await my last period
Storm/Mother/Line (a failed crown)
Night Women
Noteworthy poems
Sara Bluemead, “Your Baby is as Big as a Pop Rock”
Jill Klein, “manifest the eaglets flying”
Leticia Priebe Rocha, “The Most Magical Place on Earth”
Carol Young, “After a Variation by John Murillo”
Luisa Muradyan, “This Poem Is Not Meant to Devastate You”