Our second annual Shadow Award mega-issue is brimming with dark and offbeat poetry. We may not publish poetry often, but we don’t mess around when we do. Below you’ll find the 10 poems that rose to the top of a record-setting turnout, and primary judge Mary Lenoir Bond toiled long and hard to make sure we published the very best.
The poems you find here will also appear in our third-annual Prize Winners Anthology, due out this fall. Take a look at the results page to check out those poets who made it to the short list, but didn’t quite rise into the Top 10. And don’t forget that our Flash Worlds flash fiction is in full swing, with soft deadline fast approaching (July 31st).
But enough yammering. Let’s get to the poems…
Shadow Award 2017 Winner
Ten Years Later
by Erin Kirsh
2nd Place
Elegy for Nuestra Señora la Reina
by Matilda Berke
3rd Place
Elements Lost and Found
by Mori Glaser
The Molotov Cocktail 