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Asking For A Friend by Abby E. Murray
Asking For A Friend by Abby E. Murray

and you don’t want / your daughter learning
to shoot a rifle / with the other kids
who aim at a silhouette / of someone’s son

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RHINO 2018, Founders' PrizeDarren AngleApril 1, 2018Abby E. Murray
Worms by Erika Brumett
Worms by Erika Brumett

Little tillers. Ploughs of night-
writhe and gizzard. Eyeless, they grind

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RHINO 2018, Editor's PrizeDarren AngleApril 1, 2018Erika Brumett
Hat by Dejan Aleksic
Hat by Dejan Aleksic

To hang from birth
In a window of an old shop

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RHINO 2018, Translation PrizeDarren AngleApril 1, 2018Dejan Aleksic, Charles Simic
You Have To Be Ready by Amanda Galvan Huynh
You Have To Be Ready by Amanda Galvan Huynh

she had to be open
twenty-four/seven

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RHINO 2018, Editor's PrizeDarren AngleApril 1, 2018
Odysseus by Joseph Fasano
Odysseus by Joseph Fasano

How you imagine him is how you enter things.
He is kneeling. Or he is weeping. Or he is turning


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RHINO 2018, Founders' PrizeDarren AngleApril 1, 2018Joseph Fasano
betty by Amy Bilodeau
betty by Amy Bilodeau

all monikered & mouthfed
you are so infinitely betty

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RHINO 2018, Editor's PrizeDarren AngleApril 1, 2018Amy Bilodeau
Midden by Paul Otremba
Midden by Paul Otremba

Perhaps it was a trade, a bargain not fully realized,
like the arrowhead accepted by the flesh.

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RHINO 2018, Founders' PrizeDarren AngleApril 1, 2018Paul Otremba
Amelia Earhart Folds Origami Cranes by Adie Smith Kleckner
Amelia Earhart Folds Origami Cranes by Adie Smith Kleckner

The fastest way to circumnavigate is to fold
the quiet black between stars.

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RHINO 2018, Founders' PrizeDarren AngleApril 1, 2018Adie Smith Kleckner
The Great Butterfly Collapse by Greg Grummer
The Great Butterfly Collapse by Greg Grummer

To then put on one’s coat and to walk out the door, alive.

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RHINO 2016, Founders' PrizeDarren AngleJanuary 16, 2018Greg Grummer
<span class='poet-name'>Colin Dodds</span><br><span style="text-decoration:none;">From</span> <span style="font-style:italic;">Crossing Bedford Avenue</span>
Colin Dodds
From Crossing Bedford Avenue

Hate
is the only way to comprehend some things

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RHINO 2017Darren AngleApril 1, 2017Colin Dodds
Tashlich by Lee Sharkey
Tashlich by Lee Sharkey

Words travel through pitch-dark centuries
to touch my recalcitrant body.

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RHINO 2016Darren AngleApril 26, 2016Lee Sharkey
Report from the Neandertal Mind by Catherine Wing
Report from the Neandertal Mind by Catherine Wing

Weather several ice age age.
Hunt them ibex. Fish them bream.

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RHINO 2016Darren AngleApril 26, 2016Catherine Wing
Scripture: Hour by José Angel Araguz
Scripture: Hour by José Angel Araguz

Pencil hiss hour. // Hour of crinkled paper.
 

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RHINO 2016Darren AngleApril 14, 2016José Angel Araguz
Scripture: Meadowlark by José Angel Araguz
Scripture: Meadowlark by José Angel Araguz

I thought of what closely followed,
what had left me at its door.

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RHINO 2016Darren AngleApril 14, 2016José Angel Araguz
Wanderlust Ghazal by Dipika Mukherjee
Wanderlust Ghazal by Dipika Mukherjee

My language is a Bedouin thief, /
delighting in foreign sands;

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RHINO 2016Darren AngleApril 10, 2016Dipika Mukherjee
These Kingdoms of Ours by Derek JG Williams
These Kingdoms of Ours by Derek JG Williams

how to liberate (my skull) the devil
would be king (deposed)

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RHINO 2015Darren AngleApril 26, 2015Derek JG Williams
Appendix P by Sarah Ann Winn
Appendix P by Sarah Ann Winn

Fig. 28: A grey ball of roads
 

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RHINO 2015Darren AngleApril 26, 2015Sarah Ann Winn
Hart Crane Pantoum (No. 1) by Bill Yarrow
Hart Crane Pantoum (No. 1) by Bill Yarrow

The imagination is the only thing worth a damn.
I pass my goggle-eyed father on the streets.

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RHINO 2015Darren AngleApril 26, 2015Bill Yarrow
Wind (Blackbox) by Monika Zobel
Wind (Blackbox) by Monika Zobel

A shore of eyebrows, you said,
or eyebrow shore.

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RHINO 2015Darren AngleApril 26, 2015Monika Zobel
         (       ) by Suzanne Zweizig
( ) by Suzanne Zweizig

As we talk we hold the dark—
me curled on this side

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RHINO 2015Darren AngleApril 26, 2015Suzanne Zweizig
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 RHINO Poetry is supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, Poets & Writers, Inc, and by The MacArthur Funds for Arts and Culture at The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

 
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