Le Hinton
Epidemic

Le Hinton - Epidemic

Contest - 1st Place
Le Hinton is the author of four poetry collections including, Black on Most Days (Iris G. Press, 2008) and The God of Our Dreams (Iris G. Press, 2010). His work has been (or soon will be) published in… Read more »
Shenan Prestwich
Settling

Shenan Prestwich - Settling

Contest - 2nd Place
Shenan Prestwich is a Washington, DC-based poet and graduate of the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing program. Her poems have appeared in publications such as Slow Trains, PigeonBike, Lines +… Read more »
D.M. Armstrong
Take Care

D.M. Armstrong - Take Care

Contest - 3rd Place
D. M. Armstrong is the fiction editor of Witness Magazine and recipient of the Black Mountain Institute fellowship at UNLV, where he’s a PhD candidate in Fiction. Most recently his stories have… Read more »

Epidemic - 1st Place

Le Hinton

each morning Grandmom awakened
fed oak slabs to a passive stove

heat
breakfast
the surviving family

at the kitchen table she trusted King James
belief
in his god and this ravenous influenza

a life with two fewer sons

each belief burned away in a fever
each night full of reaching for tiny hands

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each night full of reaching for tiny hands
each belief burned away in a fever

a life with two fewer sons

in his god and this ravenous influenza
belief
at the kitchen table she trusted King James
the surviving family
breakfast
heat

fed oak slabs to a passive stove
each morning Grandmom awakened
Read more »