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The MacGuffin’s Winter 2018 issue highlights the winners of our 22nd National Poet Hunt Contest. Guest judge Naomi Shihab Nye gives a short introduction on page 102 followed by the contest’s winning poem, Bethany Reid’s memorial “The Last Time I Heard Her Play the Piano,” and the two Honorable Mentions penned by Kathleen McClung and Sue Fagalde Lick. In the prose category, Anna Vangela Jones’ father-daughter tennis match of “Tape and Glue” will keep you riveted until the final set and Laura Grace Tarpley’s “Two Weeks in Africa” will provide some helpful hints for your next intercontinental trip.

In this issue:

5: Sophia Rivkin – Hummingbird
6: Richard T. Rauch – Scared Crows
7-16: Bill Pippin – Bright Angel
17-18: Laura Grace Tarpley – Two Weeks in Africa
19: J. Lorraine Brown – Romancing a Pacemaker
20: Barbara Westwood Diehl – An Orthography
21: Barbara Westwood Diehl – The Asylum Seekers Make Earrings
22-28: J. Paul Ross – Chalatenango
29-34: Rik Barberi – Grabbing Stars
35-46: Christian Felt – The Snoopy Orphan
47: Richard Widerkehr – Night Ferry
48-52: Lesley C. Weston – Phantom Limb
53-60: Lucas Bryant – Tempest in a Bottle
61: Erin Newton Wells – A Gift of Gargoyles
62-68: Michael Baker – “We Don’t Care for That ‘Round Here”
69-73: Laura Knapp – Damsel
74-76: Tommy Dean – A Small Act of Contrition
77-79: Ellen J. Perry – Solstice
80: Barbara Westwood Diehl – Curiouser and Curiouser
81: Larry Narron – Drama Department
82-87: David Gardner – Enrique
88-93: Lily Iona MacKenzie – The Ring of Fire
94-96: Joe Alan Artz – Prom Date
97: Sue Averell – Six O’Clock in Chicago
98: Sue Averell – Unstill Life 227
99: Sue Averell – NYC Dreaming
100: Sue Averell – Lake House Dreaming
102: Naomi Shihab Nye – Poet Hunt 22 Commentary
103: Bethany Reid – Biographical Statement
104: Bethany Reid – The Last Time I Heard Her Play the Piano
105-107: Kathleen McClung – Big Sky Drine-In
108-109: Sue Fagalde Lick – An Ordinary Afternoon
111-118: Bill Diamond – Graffiti
119-125: Susan V. Meyers – Small Atrocities
126: Virginia Boudreau – March On
127: Virginia Boudreau – The First Day
128-134: Timothy Reilly – The Lottery
135-142: Mickey J. Corrigan – Murphy’s Second Law
143-152: Anna Vangala Jones – Tape and Glue
153: Mary Schmitt – After Skating on Rough Ice
154: Jeanine Stevens – Terzanelle in Arles
155: Milton J. Bates – Introspection
156-159: Contributor Notes

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