Best New Poets 2025

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Apr 17

Written By The Pinch

After a lengthy review process of all poets who were eligible, the staff have chosen to nominate Havilah Barnett for “Mute Girl as Whale Fall” from the Spring 2024 issue and Allison Field Bell for “O’Keefe Country” from the Fall 2024 issue for Best New Poets. Read them below!

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O'Keeffe Country

“I picked them up and took them home too.” She means bones. She means rocks. She means flowers. Sky. Dirt. Tree. The whole country she painted. What it means to paint something. To write. All that taking. All that blue.

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Falcon Storm Song

Greek Myths are Overrated, Murderer, Cloudy with a Chance of Dementia