Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry To His Mother Alexei Navalny, (June 4, 1976— February 16, 2024) The tidal forces as you enter a black holeand approach the singularity would tear you apart.And also space and time. It is a small thingto be a mother, a heavy, small thing. To be a body, … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry Cause and Effect That’s what happened:his factory was fined for coughing thick smokefrom its stacks, so his boss has him working laterto claw back the shortfall; you stop waiting up for himafter too many nodding nights and roll away in bed;you feel lonelier together and avoid hard … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry Winter 2023 The hirsute man sits in the jeweller’s doorway.The dishevelled dog,a constant by his side.Passers-by avert their eyesexcept oneuniformed stranger.He walks towards themwith concerned dismay,crouches to talk,takes the dog away. Colette Lawlor is a biologist who teaches adults and lives on Morecambe Bay, UK. Since her … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry Rebecca Loggia has been writing stories since childhood, eventually earning a degree in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Her work has been published in the Santa Clara Review, Allegory Ridge, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose, and elsewhere. Her essay, “How to Rewrite a Medical … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry A thread of birds pulledfrom the shorn field becomesa scarf knit by the wind,intertwining the branches, flowingastride the bare necks of trees then expands to a needlepoint shawlthrown wild within the October aircovering the grey and brown shoulders of low hillsagainst the coming cold then explodes, full as … Read more
Winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry No magic roundabout reverie herethe anti ice cream van haunts the suburbssinging scrap iron, any old iron A tannoy trumpets a thin melodya voice singing with a scrape of scrap metalno magic round about here A Bedford van drives slowly down the streeta hawker sings, walking aheadscrap … Read more