John Biscello, with music by Ben Wright: “The Horse’s Mouth”
Carl Boon: “Narrative”
Janelle Rainer Cordero: “In A City With A Meth Problem” and “For A Friend”
Maril Crabtree: “A Blessing of Wet Earth” and “In the Dark”
Emily Fox: “Mutter”
Angela Galik: “As Long As”
Tate A. Geborkoff: “Agonium Martiale, or War in Five Parts”
Gerard Grealish: “Squeak”
John Grey: “Neighborhood Improvements” and “Child, That Cannibal Cult”
Carol Hamilton: “On Time” and “Built on Naked Faith”
Danielle Hanson: “Astronomy,” “Saying Goodbye to the Slugs” and “Bluegrass Barn, Saturday Night”
Penny Harter: “Into the Lake” and “Undone”
Mila Hose: “Sense”
Ann Howells: “In a Conquered Country,” “Sandy Point,” and “Some wit has written WASH ME”
M. A. Istvan: “My Mother’s Change” and “The Heart and What It Wants”
Jacqueline Jules: “Two Elderly Aunts”
Clyde Kessler: “Hildy Dencottle,” “Betty Eldon,” and “Arnie Folber”
Joanna Kurowska: “Gravity & Something Else”
Jennifer Lothrigel: “Morning Walk in Fishnets” and “Signs from the Universe”
Brittney Menefee: “The Spaces Between Skyscrapers” and “The Topiary Park”
Kelly A. Moore: “Kinship”
Simon Perchik: “It knows nothing…”
Brady Peterson: “Still, The Urge”
Stephanie V. Sears: “At the Museum” and “Secret Warfare”
Wally Swist: “Deer, in Three Movements,” “The Chakras as Flower Essences,” and “The Wood”
Larry D. Thomas: “Until He Saw Their Mother”
Meg Thompson: “Grapes” and “I Grew Up”
Robert Blake Truscott: “Conflagration,” “Lynching,” and “Dear Miriam,”
Anna Tynsky: “Fuerte” and “Tangents”
Clarence Wolfshohl: “The Witness,” “The Taste of Tomato,” and “Fishing at Lake of the Ozarks”