44.1, Spring 2020

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Editor’s Note: Love of Words in the Time of Coronavirus

THE 2019 EDITORS’ AWARDS

Nonfiction
Kirk Wilson, “Skin the Bunny” [winner]
Cherie Nelson, “To Trace the Sky” [finalist]

Poetry
Aurielle Marie, “Father-Son & Holy” [winner]
Joanne Dominique Dwyer, “Bridal Suite” [finalist]
Lani Yu, “Culture Shock” [finalist]
Lani Yu, “The Cycle” [finalist]

Fiction
Eleanor Bluestein, “In Loco Parentis” [winner]
Jennifer Buentello, “Americana” [finalist]
George Looney, “All the Guessing Gets Us [finalist]

Leiby Prize Finalists
Angelo R. Lacuesta and Roy Allen Martinez, “Bedweather”
My Tran, from “My father is housed inside a whale”

NONFICTION
Jennifer Popa, “Unwell”
Dan Anderson, A Boy with a Coin”

POETRY
Yasmeen Alkishawi, “Arabian Dream Broadcast”
Kay Cosgrove, “You Have My Life in Your Hands”
Kay Cosgrove, “God’s Law is Not Fully Knowable to Human Beings, Thomas Aquinas Wrote”
Billy Collins, “Sleeping in the Other Room”
Mary Moloney, “To Bats Who Jam the Radar of Other Bats”
Jeanne Wagner, “The Judas Kiss”
Kerry James Evans, “Half-life”
James Harms, “Poppies. Fire.”
James Harms, “Your Bed in Bethany”
Astrid Cabral, “Vegetal Stillness” tr. Alexis Levitin
Astrid Cabral, “Mudez Vegetal”
Astrid Cabral, “Dialogue” tr. Alexis Levitin
Astrid Cabral, “Diálogos”
Len Krisak, “Ironed, Washed, Folded”
Kathleen Lee, “A Few Things I’ll Tell You”
Kathleen Lee, “In a Town Called Helper”
Ed Skoog, “Driftwood at the Beach Trailhead”

FICTION
Peter Sheehey, “Hopefully We’ll Know More in the Morning”
Gabriel Thibodeau, “Circling”
Zak Salih, “Thanatosis”
Dinah Cox, “On the Lookout for Nazis These Days”

GRAPHIC NARRATIVE
Colleen Kolba, “Centered”

COVER ART
Greedy Woman by Ruby C. Williams

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