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We’re featuring 2023–2025 Michigan Poet Laureate Nandi Comer in volume 41.2!! A four-poem spread beginning on page 108 finds Comer at her kinetic best: seeking out a house party, calling the request line, and surveying the urban topography of the Motor City. Immediately preceding all of this: the winning poems of Poet Hunt 30, featuring Grand Prize Winner Joshua Kulseth’s “Kalanchoe” and contest commentary by judge Darrel Alejandro Holnes. Not to be outdone, prose selections include Eric DePriester’s modern parable on NIL (and mustard), Danielle Mullen’s tale of library abstinence, and recipes for dinner and life from Payal Nagpal.

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9: Peycho Kanev – Prelude
10: Sharon Pretti – Stopping at the Florist Before a National Protest
11: Sharon Pretti – Pain as a Thing Occurring Again and Again for a Long Time
12: William Doreski – Crow Song
13: William Doreski – Pink and Purple Languages
14: Cam McGlynn – Prayer to Mary Oliver
16: Danielle Mullen – Lead and Gold
28: Sandra Fees – There Is Nothing New Until There Is
29: Jae Newman – Dead Names
30: Angie Macri – It isn’t red or sugar but silver
31: Justin Pulice – Semi-Detached
32: David Brehmer – Definitions
34: Shanda Connolly – Broken Smile
42: Katharyn Howd Machan – Intro to Creative Writing: An Essay, a Story, a Poem
44: Moyo Esther – The Girls Who Carry Oceans
45: Ben Cooper – In the Morning Light
46: Susan Shea – The Other Side of the Promise
47: Sharon Goldberg – What I Think About While I’m Having Sex with My Beloved
49: Payal Nagpal – You Are What You Eat
53: Taylor Franson-Thiel – My Husband and I Start Planning When We Might Want to Get Pregnant
54: Loralee Clark – Autism: Questions on a Meditation
55: Joe Cottonwood – Not Forget
56: Sydney Lea – After His Disaster
58: Jeff Ingber – Picnic in Buda
65: John Findura – My Father, My Grandfather, Then Me
68: Emily Kerlin – Dad’s Trip
70: Hoon Kim – How would men stand if they had no pockets
72: J. Alan Nelson – Save the Damn Penny
73: Robert Fillman – Poker Face
74: Andrea Cavedo – Mrs. Misanthrope
79: Daniel Nathan Terry – The Bipolar’s Familiar
80: Lisa Compo – Barely a Memory, Barely a Garden
81: Lisa Compo – Orison
82: Kashiana Singh – Shifting Orbit
83: Kashiana Singh – The Sepsis of Survival
84: Patrick Scheckel – Frozen Chuck
92: George Tidmore – Toilet Bowl Fish Trip
94: George Tidmore – Application for Naturalization
97: Elizabeth Mayville – Pasta 1
98: Elizabeth Mayville – Sunset 1
99: Elizabeth Mayville – Blue Scraps
100: Elizabeth Mayville – Daffodils
101: Darrel Alejandro Holnes – Poet Hunt 30 Commentary
104: Joshua Kulseth – Kalanchoe
106: Rachel Desiree Felix – My Name Does Not Translate
107: Kate Peper – Skin Magic
109: Nandi Comer – Big Three Nocturne
110: Nandi Comer – Ode to the Party Flyer
112: Nandi Comer – Ode to the Request Line
113: Nandi Comer – Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: DJ Assault
114: Timothy Hennum – Neighbors
121: David Waters – Last Dance
132: Deborah Wanzer – Sonnet for a Dead Sister
133: Deborah Wanzer – For Amy
134: Barbara Daniels – How to Look Your Best
135: Barbara Daniels – Lady Blue
136: Brittany N. Jaekel – Compass Rose
137: Elizabeth Collis – Cows and Country
142: Eric DePriester – Which Mustard
144: Daniel Ruefman – Bedim-332
148: Barbara Krasner – The Abandoned Dutch Farmhouse
150: C. J.

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