August 31, 2019
Out Loud: Audio Selections from the Kenyon Review
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August 31, 2019
Post Meridiem
Runner-up2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers after Hayao Miyazaki In Seattle, my mother dreams up a surplus of wolves. We are walking down a light-rimmed road, the bus stop slick […]
August 31, 2019
Stars
Runner-up2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Text from Virginia Andrews, said she sawChris Gates’s father in town, said it was heartbreaking, said it made her think aboutnot moving, […]
August 31, 2019
November Picnic with Louise
Winner2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Those boys who followed you all last summerare waiting at your window, but you laughholding a lemonade on the dead grassfour welcome […]
November 1, 2018
What I Left Behind
Winner 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The summer I found myself in a girl’s arms, our limbs sticky with sweat and sugar, there was a knock […]
November 1, 2018
Extraterrestre
Runner-up 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers At the age of nine I was catapulted into the stars To land, face down, on an alien planet. A […]
November 1, 2018
Chapter Seven Quiz
Runner-up 2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Once you finish the quiz, you may leave your body How did she begin? a. as one of three sisters, beautiful […]
November 1, 2018
Young Poets Introduction
Editor at Large2018 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, now in its fifteenth year, recognizes an outstanding single poem by […]
November 1, 2017
Movie Scene on a Highway Shoulder
2017 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Winner Picture this: A scene from the movie Snowpiercer, where the main character needs to make a choice. A film analysis: […]
November 1, 2017
Young Poets Introduction
2017 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers The Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers, now in its fourteenth year, recognizes an outstanding single poem by a high […]
November 1, 2017
Clemente Curls
Runner-up 2017 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Pittsburgh, city of bridges, like my favorite waves of hair. The ones that don’t sit perfectly still, the ones that […]
November 1, 2017
Family Portrait with Lost Map
2017 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Runner-up The road signs passed my eyes like fevers, settled into the wind carrying my father’s words. He must have been […]