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An excerpt from “Roots,” by Samantha Kamer, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: Southeast Region. (bit.ly/AEP2018Southea…)

An excerpt from “Frustration,” by Kelly Shea, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: Southeast Region. (bit.ly/AEP2018Southea…)

An excerpt from “Of Fireflies,” by Mack Rogers, as featured in America’s Emerging Poets 2018: Southeast Region. (bit.ly/AEP2018Southea…)

An excerpt from “The Last Window,” by Gayle Wittig, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “A Bushel and A Peck,” by Michelle Awad, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “a beetle on its back,” by Kiyoko Reidy, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “If Not Poetry,” by Kaylyn Alyra Weddle, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “The Winds’ Hollow Cries,” by Rick D. Hallbeck, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “To Have and to Hold,” by Emmalee Windle, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “If Not Poetry,” by Kaylyn Alyra Weddle, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “a beetle on its back,” by Kiyoko Reidy, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

An excerpt from “The Last Window,” by Gayle Wittig, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: bit.ly/abep_zpublishi…

From "To Have and to Hold," by Emmalee Windle, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: zpublishinghouse.com/collections/mo…

From "The Winds’ Hollow Cries," a poem by Rick D. Hallbeck, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: zpublishinghouse.com/collections/mo…

From "A Bushel and a Peck," by Michelle Awad, as featured in America’s Best Emerging Poets: zpublishinghouse.com/collections/mo…

"It will no longer be a secret, your secret. It will be theirs, too, and that in itself, is enough to scare you. Do you continue to carry this secret alone, or do you allow someone else to bear the burden with you?" - A Secret, Jenny Leighann Tudor

"You forgot how it feels to touch it, to wrap your arms around its stern body and finger its strings. Forgot that holding it feels like a lost lover, a baby tooth, a penny on the ground." - Guitar, Blythe Cate

"Give me my water that the desert of myself might overflow with things not baked by hot half-certainties" - Poseidon’s Invocation, John Ellis

"when you say i miss you i don’t want to feel the ache of every mile between us" - distance, Lauren Cox