23.2 - Summer/Fall 2011

2010 Barthelme Prize

Two poems: Historical Action Figures, and To Petrol and Honey by Mark Bibbins
Three poems: Sasha Pimentel Chacón: On a Business Meeting in Bulacan [...], and Sasha Pimentel Chacón: Safely Watching a Solar Eclipse, and Sasha Pimentel Chacón: In Their Dark Habits by Sasha Pimentel Chacón
A Short History of Marriage by Jennifer Chang
Claire Donato: Credo for Clairvoyance by Claire Donato
Two poems: Ode to the Little "r", and Three Girls, One of Them a Coward Girl by Aracelis Girmay
The Space Traveler's Tense by Benjamin S. Grossberg
Swearing-In by Sofi Hall
English by Yusef Komunyakaa
Genius by Dorothea Lasky
Three poems: The Medical Expert Held the Floor, and The 1987 Edition of the Sears Roebuck [...], and It Is Not for Dogs to Tell Their Masters [...] by Anthony Madrid
Ill-Timed by Rusty Morrison
From "Zhenya" by Valzhyna Mort
Tender Mercies by D.A. Powell
The Royal Court at Storm King by Andrew Seguin
Office [Station of the Harnessmaker] by Allison Titus
Two poems: Ecclesiastes, and Datura Innoxia by Brian Trimboli
Antipodal by R.A. Villanueva
Two poems: Invocation, and Self-Immolation by Greg Wrenn
The Forms Frozen in Familiar Remoteness by Andrew Zawacki