Golden Glosa Bird-Watching at Radnor Lake

Sydney Mayes is a poet from Denver, Colorado. She is the inaugural ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year, and her work can be found in The Atlantic, Prairie Schooner, and Poets.org, among other publications. In 2024 Mayes was a finalist for the Furious Flower Poetry Prize and the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry. She currently serves as the executive editor of Nashville Review.