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| Clare MacQueen |
David Memmott: Subjective Regionalism |
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| SHJ Editors |
Roisin McLean: The Fifth Eye |
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| Clare MacQueen |
An Introduction
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| Doris Bittar |
[A True Humanitarian] |
| Paul Fericano |
[In Every Word] |
| Michael Hettich |
The Net |
| Karen Kenyon |
How to Make a Poem |
| Steve Kowit |
They Are Looking for Che Guevara |
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| The Steve Kowit Poetry Prize 2016 |
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We deeply appreciate that William Harry Harding and the San Diego Entertainment & Arts Guild (SDEAG) have acknowledged the “time and love” that went into Steve Kowit’s work at Serving House Journal. And we are deeply touched that they believe “The Kowit should have a home of sorts” here as well. With kind permissions from Harding and Garden Oak Press, and from the poets themselves, we are honored to reprint the following winners and Honorable Mentions from the inaugural Steve Kowit Poetry Prize competition. These works were first published in the San Diego Poetry Annual 2016-17 in February 2017:
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| William Harry Harding |
Introduction from the Publisher of SDPA
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| Molly Larson Cook |
Love Song with Flip Chart and Pointer [Grand Prize Winner] |
| Joseph Milosch |
If Nothing Else [First Runner-Up] |
| David Denny |
Summer School [Second Runner-Up] |
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| Claire Hsu Accomando |
Pilgrims |
| Deborah Allbritain |
Taking Down Christmas |
| Tara Betts |
Prayer Box |
| Trish Dugger |
The Scarcity of Sharks |
| R. G. Evans |
Moon at Day |
| Stephen Gold |
A Different Conversation |
| Debbie Hall |
The Baby Rattler Coiled Between the Bookcases |
| Terry Hertzler |
Close Enough to Touch |
| Oriana Ivy |
Questions for God |
| Arthur Kayzakian |
Ode to Peeing in the Streets |
| Kathy Keogh |
Funeral March |
| Sylvia Levinson |
American Kaddish |
| Una Nichols Hynum |
First Christmas Without You |
| Suzanne O’Connell |
My Old Pocketbook |
| Robt O’Sullivan Schleith |
Song for a Year that Was |
| Sherman Pearl |
Don’t Choose Me |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher |
Roman Holiday |
| Ron Salisbury |
The Gate |
| Vivian Shipley |
Grabbling for Catfish in Cumberland Lake, Kentucky |
| Ciera Valdivia |
Welcome to the Living Vision |
| Jeff Walt |
Kitchen Music |
| Ying Wu |
Metaphors |
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| Jack Cooper |
A Note of Thanks [from our Guest Poetry Editor] |
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| Laura Altshul |
Hannah Cries Out from the Grave |
| Sarah Bigham |
Why her fingertip became the blade |
| Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson |
Homecoming |
| William Doreski |
Pianos of Snow |
| Renee Elton |
Little Birds |
| Patrick Theron Erickson |
Conversation |
| Sheri Gabbert |
Double Feature |
| J. M. Hall |
Seduced by Autumn |
| Seth Jani |
Garden Wall |
| Georgia Jones-Davis |
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Flowers Don’t Neither |
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Moon Morning |
| Al Maginnes |
Ellipsis |
| David Memmott |
Dreaming Back the Wild |
| Michael Meyerhofer |
Westbound Elegy |
| Joyce Miller |
Carriers |
| Alexis Rhone Fancher |
Two Poems: |
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Every Day Is Mother’s Day |
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June Fairchild isn’t dead— |
| Sanjeev Sethi |
Movement |
| Ian C. Smith |
He unstraps his leg, works on the head |
| Robert Joe Stout |
Two Poems: |
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Break Up |
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Two A.M. |
| Eileen Van Hook |
Three Poems: |
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Birdie |
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Caution |
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Leaving Home |
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[For more poetry, see also “Kowit’s Korner” and “Remembering Okla Elliott.”]
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A Farewell to Okla |
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| Okla Elliott |
Four Poems: |
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An Old Man Dying Tells His Son |
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Antinomies and Intensities |
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Aubade |
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Entrances and Exits |
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| Shaindel Beers |
Ephemera |
| Priscilla Charrat Nelson |
[“Looking Like an Academic”] |
| Lynn Marie Houston |
The Book You’re Reading Now Has All Our Names in It |
| Sean Karns |
[Beginnings] |
| Daniel Rifenburgh |
[Death Shall Be No More] |
| Sivan Rotholz Teitelman |
[This Incomparable Human] |
| Arne Weingart |
A Death on Facebook |
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| Duff Brenna |
PrimeTime [a post-cyberpunk novel by David Memmott] |
| Clare MacQueen |
“Where the Mind’s Scribbling Ends” [Beneath the Coyote Hills, a novel by William Luvaas] |
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| Lyndsey Ellis |
Variety & Illusion |
| Sam Gridley |
Al’s Wormhole |
| Roisin McLean |
Piercings [from the author’s debut collection The Fifth Eye] |
| Tom Sheehan |
The Side Arts of Blindness |
| John Talbird |
Watching |
| Tony Van Witsen |
Nowhere to Go But Up |
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[See also Flash Fiction above.]
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| David Memmott |
Subjective Regionalism [Digital Paintings]:
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#191 |
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#199 |
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#220 |
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#233 |
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#246 |
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#247 |
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#289 |
| Fabrice B. Poussin |
Photographs:
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Clarity |
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To J.P. [#2] |