Aria Aber, “Dirt and Light” from The New Yorker, March 2021

Kaveh Akbar, “Orchids are Sprouting from the Floorboards” from Calling a Wolf a Wolf (Alice James Books, 2017)

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, “Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you.” from Poetry, October 2021

Chelsea Dingman, “Microchimerism” from I, Divided (Louisiana State University Press, 2023)

Beth Ann Fennelly, “Two Sisters, One Thinner, One Better Dressed” from Poetry, July/August 2021

Rachel Eliza Griffiths, “Elegy, Surrounded by Seven Trees” from Seeing the Body: Poems (W.W. Norton & Co., 2020)

Noor Hindi, “Against Death” from TriQuarterly, Winter/Spring 2021

Sara Eliza Johnson, “Elegy Surrounded by Water” from Bone Map (Milkweed Editions, 2014)

C.T. Salazar, “If a Star, Break This Elegy into All Its Reaching Fingers” from Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art

Diane Seuss, “i saw a little movie of a person” from frank: sonnets (Graywolf Press, 2021)

Tracy K. Smith, “Joy” from The Body’s Question (Graywolf Press, 2003)

Natasha Trethewey, “Myth” from Native Guard (Ecco, 2007)

Alison Benis White, “Postcards to M.” from Kenyon Review, July/August 2021

Kevin Young, “Rosetta” from Book of Hours: Poems (Knopf, 2014)