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We’re closing out volume 39 with Barbara Crooker’s selections from POET HUNT 28. Be sure to check out Dawn Dupler’s grand prize–winning “Scars” and honorable mention selections by Johnny Cate and MacGuffin regular Rebecca Foust. Immediately following this section is a four-poem spread by POET HUNT 29 guest judge Michael Meyerhofer. And don’t forget about the prose: the unfolding postmodernism of Max Blue’s “Preservation”; the satirical “Taylor Kills a Unicorn” by Laton Carter; and the madcap reporter’s narrative in Nicholas Litchfield’s “Superstars of Today.” This issue features artwork by Metro Detroit painter and designer Linda Pelowski.

8: Brendan Todt – Sarah’s mother never like Motherwell.
9: Daniel Meltz – That Good Planet Earth
10–11: Cale Plett – For an Untaken Road Trip
12: Cale Plett – Duplex
13: Megan Gannon – Dispatch Halfway Up the Summit
14–19: Max Blue – Preservation
20: Frank Freeman – Reading Du Fu
21: Wendy Lyon – Gramarye for the Newborn Child
22–23: Mary Fister – Swing, Swang, Swung
24–25: Mary Fister – Root Words
26–27: Mary Fister – The Village of Good Bread
28–36: Magdi Hazaa – To-Do List
37: Mike Barrett – Sharing a Nap in Bruges
38: Leslie Hodge – Tunnel of Fire
39: Leslie Hodge – Eight Ball
40: Dixie Partridge – These Vagrant Hours
41: Dixie Partridge – Illuminations, in September
42–46: Bill Bilverstone – Dream House
47: Shana Hill – The First Time I Notice Him
48: Annette Sisson – My friend since middle school explained
49–54: Isabella Barrengos – The Pond by Our House
55: S. Rogers Ellis – Owl
56: Liza Porter – The Southern Baptists Visit the Methodists
57: Liza Porter – …absolutely nothing like rocking
58–62: Terry Sanville – The Watch
63–66: Arthur Davis – The Princess of Ghanduharh
67: Edward Aust – Sometimes you just have to walk away
68–73: Franz Jørgen Neumann – Oriole
74–75: Margaret Diehl – Unease
76–77: Margaret Diehl – The Woman Under the Ice
78: Richard Kenefic – Feynman, Ice Climbing
79–87: Nicholas Litchfield – Superstars of Today
88: Jackleen Holton – In this light
89: Jackleen Holton – You Belong to Me
90: Andy Roberts – Keychain
91: Mercedes Lawry – Foodbank Provisions
92–95: Phil Andersen – I Remember You
96: Francine Witte – The Rain Tells the Truth for a Change
97: Linda Pelowski – Baywoods View
98: Linda Pelowski – Crooked River
99: Linda Pelowski – Winter Sunset
100: Linda Pelowski – Lake Muskoka
101–102: Barbara Crooker – Poet Hunt 28 Commentary
104: Dawn Dupler – Scars
105: Johnny Cate – Sixteen Jackies
106: Rebecca Foust – Throbber
108: Michael Meyerhofer – Phone Sex After Forty
109: Michael Meyerhofer – Ode to Mary Anning
110: Michael Meyerhofer – Last Video Call Before My Father’s Surgery
111: Michael Meyerhofer – Do Not Resuscitate
113–119: Charlene Koski – Billable
120: Laton Carter – Taylor Kills a Unicorn
121: Michael Salcman – Building a Prize-Winner
122: Annie Przypyszny – On the Case of Spontaneous Combustion in Bleak House
123: Cathryn Essinger – What It Means to Be Blessed
124: Cathryn Essinger – Another Land War
125–128: Bill Kitcher – Blues and Scotch and Sophie
129: Dan Murphy – The 1980s: A Love Song
130: Michael Stone – Hot Nights in a Sheet
131–136: Jon Fotch – Slingshot
137–141: Bethany Tap – Fearless
142: Sandra Salinas Newton – Lady Spring
143: Johanna DeMay – My Husband’s Pacemaker
144: Joshua Coben – Apnea Dreams
145–148: Teresa Milbrodt – Musings
149: Jen Ashburn – Memory of My Brother Disguised as a Letter to Zeina Hashem Beck
150: Jen Ashburn – I Imagine My Father as Goose
151: Steve Myers – Natura Morta
152–160: Contributor Notes

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