Editor's Prize Winner | April 24, 2018
Editors’ Prize Poetry Feature: Meghann Plunkett
Meghann Plunkett
Featuring the poems:
- In the Fist of the Blade Holder
- Boston, 1992
- South County, Matunuck, RI
- 1996
- To My Assailant, 15 Years Later
- Awaiting the Elegy
- The Dove
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