Here’s the 2015 Longlist!
The final selections were often painfully difficult for our editors to make. Each indicated at some point in the jurying process that they’d found a good number more than the mere seven poems they were asked to select. The longlist is meant to call attention to this unfortunate reality and to give our audience a sense that there were many more worthy poems than just the final 50 or so that will be published in our 2015 Global Poetry Anthology. Below are the top 70 poems of 2015.
Join us for breakfast and poetry as we post three new poems a day throughout August.
As we make the poems available, the titles below will become clickable.
| The African Burial Ground by Anna Berry |
Meteor Shower by Amali Rodrigo |
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| Africa Today by Joseph Ushie |
38 Michigans by Eva H.D. |
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| A Good Day’s Work? by Phil Davey |
Music for a New England Daughter by John Stokes |
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| And Then I Saw Andrew by Victoria Korth |
My Hand and Cold by Natalie Shapero |
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| As Soon as We Are Born We Start to Die by Jennie Malboeuf |
Parade by Mark Abley |
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| A Summer Killing by Lisa Jacobson |
Passage Grave by Rosamund Taylor |
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| The Bat, the Bell, the Bird and the Body by Tim Collins |
The People Skirt by Kathryn Mockler |
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| By the Shore by Rose Maloukis |
Personal Creed by Jabez Churchill |
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| The Cadaver by Josh Bartolome |
The Poetry of Money by Ron Pretty |
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| Cold War, 1982 by Olivia McCannon |
Reindeer Herders by Anjali Yardi |
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| Dotage by Kathleen Balma |
Remember Jericho by Jean Baptiste Biesemans |
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| Dream Research by Sue Reynolds |
Resonate by Taylor Bratches |
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| Elantxobe by David Bunn |
Robert Pinsky by Sneha Madhavan-Reese |
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| Elena! by Kevin Brophy |
Rule of Threes by Sandra Lloyd |
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| Escape to Grosse Isle by Ann Giard-Chase |
Shapes and Sizes by Stephanie Warner |
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| Evening Stroll by the Canal by Jena Woodhouse |
Shards by Peter Norman |
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| Father Is In Insurance and Out Most Nights by Gayelene Carbis |
Siege by Shoshanna Wingate |
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| Firebird by Jessica Wilkinson |
Slant of the Girl by Jessica Van de Kemp |
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| Funeral Home by Richard Sanger |
Sleeping Woman Jilted by Abigail Ardelle Zammit |
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| Gambling Everything by Jayne Jenner |
Smoke by Bryan Walpert |
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| Half by Michael Prior |
The Spare Room by Harry White |
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| Heart Sutra by Kyeren Regehr |
The Spiral of Life by Luiz Henrique Domingues |
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| Heirloom Tomatoes by Bruce Meyer |
The Stage by Ewan Macpherson |
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| Her Absence by Shahilla Shariff |
Stillborn by Vicki Goodfellow-Duke |
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| Histories by Jordan Mounteer |
Still Life with Blood Orange by Kevin Brophy |
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| Hunger by Gillian Wallace |
Story of a Leaf by Sarah Burgoyne |
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| I Like Canada by Joshua Levy |
Sunday Drives by Bruce Meyer |
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| Into This World by Mary O’Keefe Brady |
There Are No More Horses Here by Johanna Emeney |
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| It Would Have Been A Girl by Sue Reynolds |
Thomas, Not Saying by Pete Smith |
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| Last Love by Roberta Senechal de la Roche |
Thoppil Bhasi by Sneha Madhavan-Reese |
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| Letter to My Dead Mother by Dorianne Laux |
Under the Ashes by William Leo Coakley |
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| The Lost School of Botany by Michael Henry |
Weather by Luke Hankins |
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| M1 by Cynthia Hughes |
What the Sea Remembers by Felicity Plunkett |
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| Macular Degeneration by Jacqueline d’Amboise |
Who Vanishes as He Approaches by Linda Rogers |
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| Manure Pile Covered in Snow by Thomas Lux |
Wound Care Ghazal by Amber Homeniuk |
