Here are the nominees for the 2023-2024 Four Feathers Press Online Edition Awards. Please vote for your choices (which I will deeply consider) by commenting in the comment section below before the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on June 29th...
Ghazal Train
R A Ruadh "Parting is..."
Mary Langer Thompson "Stoneheart"
Jeffry Michael Jensen "PRONOUNCEMENT: GUZZLE GHAZAL GRUNGE"
Mark A Fisher "petition"
Gia Civerolo "ghazal: is there a vacancy or not?"
Dean Okamura "Passage"
Carl Stilwell "GHAZAL GOSPEL GOTCHAS"
Patrick Thomas Jeffries "Dancing Line"
Jackie Chou "Grieving the Loss of My Former Self"
Marianne Szlyk "Ghazal for Maryvale Park in July
4fp: Hell or Heaven (4fphellorheaven.blogspot.com)
Lorelei Kay "Banning the Bean"
Gia Civerolo "howling for angels"
Rick Leddy "Daylight Moon"
Bill Cushing "SOME NOTES OF A RELIGIOUS NATURE"
Caleb Delos-Santos "Another Demon Dream"
Maria A Arana "Who wants to grapple with death?"
Alicia Viguer-Espert "Leaving Paradise"
Radomir Vojtech Luza "Lord Lavender"
Marianne Szlyk "Before My Mother Lands in Heaven,"
Matt McGee "No Offense, Abe"
Dean Okamura "I struggle with simple things"
Joan McNerney "Rendezvous"
Spirits and Specters
Caled Delos-Santos "What is a Specter?"
Lori Wall-Holloway "Library Mystery"
Jeffry Jensen "THE GALLOPING WESTERN DELUSION"
Carl Stilwell "Thanking the Birds"
Jackie Chou "Specters at the Rosemead Community Center"
Marianne Szlyk "Girl in a Subway Station, 1992"
R A Ruadh "Power lines"
Ellyn Maybe "I HAVE FALLEN 3 TIMES"
Joe Grieco "EULOGY INSTRUCTIONS"
Alicia Mathias "Eleven Geese"
Lynn White "On The Day Of The Dead"
Shih-Fang Wang "Haunted"
Pamela Shea "Spectral So Cal Poem"
Points and Lines (4fppointsandlines.blogspot.com)
Dan Garcia-Black "Watts Da?"
Alicia Viguer-Espert "Power"
Gia Civerolo "ants crawled across empty paper lines"
Mark A Fisher "humanity"
Jeffry Jensen "Pointing Across the Imaginary Lines of Extinction"
Gary Justice "A loss for words"
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal "My Mind is on Fire"
R A Ruadh "Shaping Life"
Matt McGee "Nag"
CLS Sandoval "The Metaphor that Wished He Was a Simile"
Lori Wall-Holloway "Time to Make Room"
R A Ruadh "The unofficial uncounted"
Mark A Fisher "exoneration"
Shih-Fang Wang "After Death"
Emil “Gene” Schultz Jr "Conflicted"
Mirjana “Mira” N. Matarić "Like a Rose"
Dean Okamura "Norman Rockwell, 'New Kids in the Neighborhood' (1967)"
CLS Sandoval "Tree's Canopy"
Mary Mayer Shapiro "Coming Home"
Jackie Chou "Wide-brimmed Hats"
Gia Civerolo "her memory never smiles anymore"
Deborah Edler Brown "He comes to her in dreams"
Alicia Viguer-Espert "My Neck"
Michael G Hickey "To That Brown Girl in Sophomore Biology"
Carl Stilwell "An Exclusive Interview with the Universal Soldier"
Ellyn Maybe "People"
Petrouchka Alexieva "Take Out My Brains"
Joan McNerney "O Amazing Muse Man"
Tim Tipton "Jacket"
Lorelei Kay "Growing Old is Hell"
Lynn White "We're All Doomed"
Alicia Mathias "CAN YOU HEAR THE CRIES"
Rick Leddy "Too Many"
Mark A Fisher "pangs"
Jeffry Jensen "ALL A BIG BARE-KNUCKLE SNOOZE"
Jerry Garcia "Not Even St. Christopher Crosses the Boulevard Safely"
Alexis Rhone Fancher "Crocodile Love"
Ellyn Maybe "WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE"
Alicia Viguer-Espert "The Phone Call"
Denise Dumars "The City by Day"
Lynn White "Rhythms of Time"
Gia Civerolo "i hate milk"
Karen Pierce Gonzalez "Cosmic coffee with pie"
Ellyn Maybe "IN THE HOUSE OF GRAPEFRUIT AND CITRUS"
Jackie Chou "Love Potion 3.14"
Mary Langer Thompson "Lemon Power"
Marianne Szlyk "Ritz Cracker Pie"
Dayna Leslie Hodges "Sigh"
Lynn White "Lest We Forget"
CLS Sandoval "My Mother's Relief"
PJ Swift "That collective song"
Alicia Viguer-Espert "Remembering the Monastery"
Jack G Bowman "People Missing in your Life"
Mary Mayer Shapiro "Bruce Brockmann"
Leah Mueller "Runaway"
Alicia Mathias "REVELATION"
Joe Grieco "GRAYEYARD BOYS"
Shih-Fang Wang "Long Ago"
Dean Okamura "East L.A. Japanese American family"
Hedy Habra "Hokusai’s The Great Wave"
Marianne Szlyk "A Tender Spell"
Forthcoming
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Chosen from the issue winners by the editor
