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Submission period for the 20th (and final) Dogfish Head Poetry Prize closes July 31st, at midnight
Submission Guidelines The twentieth annual (and final) Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning book-length manuscript by a poet...
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Apr 1, 20221 min read
"Completing Margaret's Deer" by jim bourey
In the ditch a deer carcass, no head from You Are Happy by Margaret Atwood It was a silent beauty I found, had yearling antlers, much...
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Apr 1, 20222 min read
Two poems by Cameron Morse
The Bigness of the Herd I can never get over the bigness of the herd, the stampede of clouds cascading over the warehouse, I-70’s...
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Apr 1, 20221 min read
Two poems by Charles K. Carter
Tongue I am drawn to you like my tongue is drawn to the gap between my teeth – there’s no good reason but it fits and it feels right...
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
"In the Name Of" by Daniel Edward Moore
trinitarian genes the DNA of spilt-personality gods I discovered mine drinking Jack & Coke chilled by a bear in...
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Mar 7, 20222 min read
Two poems by Christy Prahl
Birthright The mechanics of this body have never made a baby. They may have once held the start of a baby, a clot expelled one morning...
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
"Failure" by Alexander Lazarus Wolff
You’d never held a gun before, the percussion ricocheting throughout the bones in your skull. And the sag of your smile, the dismay, as...
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
"How This Bee Stuffs Its Pockets" by Hayden Saunier
There is a name for the color of pollen this honeybee is packing into its thigh pouches as it works the Mexican sunflowers with exuberant...
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Mar 7, 20223 min read
Two poems by Paul Siegell
Refresher. (For Warren Longmire) Someone called their mindfulness a “glass-bottomed suspension bridge,” so in that land I stood a ladder....
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
"Two Photographs" by Ann Quinn
1. Connecticut hospital June, 2020 This piece is about space and speed. Within the almost unbearable confinement of the corridors, we...
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Mar 7, 20222 min read
Two poems by Courtney LeBlanc
Snails & Stars Snails can sleep for up to three months which I think just makes them depressed but we aren’t always good about...
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
"Roads" by Peycho Kanev
The cars are metastases crawling inside the veins of the roads. And then they disappear in the flatline of the horizon. Green is the...
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
Two poems by Angie Dribben
Spellbound Where I’m from we’re taught young the catch patterns of a man. Bake the blood of our moons into their supper. It’s his tongue...
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Mar 7, 20221 min read
Two poems by Mark Danowsky
Taken Out I was raised by those raised by a generation to spend a long time “getting ready” so someone can stand at the foot of the...
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Mar 7, 20222 min read
"Artist's Cairn" by Nancy Avery Dafoe
I have written about rocks before— our subconscious desire to return to our mineral state— but a recent confrontation with what appeared...
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Mar 7, 20222 min read
Two poems by Alex Carrigan
Tunnel Sounds I play music to trap my mind. I stare down a tunnel and wait. I waited and stared down the tunnel for the echo to catch...
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Mar 7, 20223 min read
Two poems by Michael Brosnan
Swimming Take the tuna salad, for instance. The thin man in front of me in the midday line at a Hell’s Kitchen deli orders it for lunch....
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Mar 7, 20222 min read
"Don't" by Morgan Boyer
After Jimmy Cvetic’s “Just Because” Don’t skin the pencil of its yellow coating like you’re some French fur trader Don’t hide behind the...
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Jan 1, 20221 min read
"cypress" by Cordelia Hanemann
homage to D.H. Lawrence I return too often to the bayou land of my marriage there: lone cypress folded in like a dark thought for...
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Jan 1, 20222 min read
"Spider/Magpies/Crows" by Sandra Kohler
Air thick, not cold, still, moist. Gray skies. The world is not transformed by a vow or a wish. A spider hangs above the chair next to...
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