Winner Christina Daub At Calvert Cliffs K says she likes seeing the native art through my eyes, did not know about the festival in her own town. I nod. One never really grasps a place till someone comes to visit. We laugh at lunch, at Neruda who, after forty years, said he had no idea […] The post 2026 Enoch Pratt Poetry Contest Winner and Honorable Mentions first appeared on Poet Lore.
Guest Editor’s Note: On Devotion I inherited the idea of devotion as religious obligation. That commitment was also a cultural and linguistic one, in response to displacement, as the child of formerly undocumented Polish immigrants. We missed births, weddings, and funerals on the other side of the Atlantic for many years, but participated in the same rituals, uttered the same prayers. In the ornate basilica of my childhood, I grew up lighting candles for relatives
Read 7 poems from Guest Editor Patrycja Humienik’s Guest Edited folio “On Devotion” from our recent print issue From Patrycja Humienik's folio "On Devotion" in Poet Lore Volume 120 3/4Jane HuffmanA few notes on a composition by Edmond JabésSome words come too close. Limerence, too close. Like mishearing someone’s name three times but being too […] The post Poems from Winter/Spring 2026 first appeared on Poet Lore.