Poems Accepted for The Flat Water Stirs: An Anthology of Emerging Nebraska Poets

• Bree Ackerman: “Eyes”
• Bonnie Andersen: “Plum Trees,” “Ezra the Goat,” and “Wake in Heavenly Peas”
• Douglas A. Anderson: “Outer Space”
• D.S. Biggs: “A Reflection Upon Uprootedness” and “The Water Here Runs Flat”
• Lin Marshall Brummels: “Picker’s Decay,” “Throw Away Lives,” and “Hotel Breakdown”
• Tana Buoy: “Bastards in the Snow,” “Forsaken,” and “I Put the Gun in My Mouth”
• Jeremy Caldwell: “Food Pantry in Scottsbluff, Nebraska,” “Double Checking” and “Peace”
• Sophie Clark: “Flowerpots”
• Sharon Nicole Cole: “Panoramic Panties” and “Honeybees”
• Jay Collier: “I Have Stood Among Trees and Stars”
• Gustavo Cruz (Miguel Gonzalez): “After the Divorce: Living with Grandmother” and “Visiting My Mother While My Father Dies, 1996”
• Drew Decamp: “Cenotaph” and “Oracle”
• David Z. Drees: “Always Keep an Eye in the Side-Mirror,” “Chuck and the Golden Arches,” and “The Feeling”
• Sean Dunn: “I Saw a Flier Today” ​
• Robert Klein Engler: “Fontanelle Forest,” “Midtown in October,” and “All in a Day’s Work”
• Meghan Eslick: “Mask of Ignorance”
• Maritza N. Estrada: “After the Ash Has Died” ​
• Diana Failla: “Downtown Ride Home” and “The Silk Dress” ​
• Kara Gall: “Nothing Metal Can Be Worn in Surgery,” “The True Meaning of Being a Woman,” and “Nobody Asks about our Sex Life” ​
• Andrew Gelbert: “A Couple Like Us”
• Michael Grove: “Adulting,” “Glitter Skips Across The Pond as Buddha Passes Me a Joint,” and “Jesus Spotting”
• Vicky MacDonald Harris: “Disaster Capitalism”
• Kellie Hayden: “Dendrochronology”
• Heidi Hermanson: “My Relationship with God,” “Death on an Installment Plan,” and “At the Downtown Y”
• Allison Hraban: “At The Nile,” “Always An Elegy,” and “In All Lights”
• Amber M. May: “Object D’Art”
• Sarah A. O’Brien: “Traveling” and “Timeless”
• Colleen O’Doherty: “Columbine’s Mother”
• Jim Plath: “Cityscape,” “I Can Get Back From Here,” and “Painted Glass”
• James Kyle Rackley: “Refugees”
• Marcella Remund: “Bird Girl,” “Stuck on Red,” and “Exegesis, Book of Women”
• Dee Ritter: “Old Books,” “The Back Porch,” and “Moving To Jerome”
• Erika Schwartz: “You Wander in & out of My Life like a Train-hopping Hobo,” “I vs. We,” and “You Only Call Me When You’re Leaving”​
• Elizabeth Sederburg: “Back Roads” and “2006”
• Thadd Simpson: “That’s My Dog” ​
• Nathan Sousek: “Crossroads” and “Lighted”
• Kim Tedrow: “Cigar Ribbon Quilt” and “Tornado Dreams”
• Courtney Upah: “Words Lost to the Night”
• Trent Walters: “Bruised Fruit After a Wind-fall,” “A Stranger Sort of Siren,” and “One Small Song for the Quiet Country” ​​
• Kelly Weber: Excerpts from Their Bones Remember Water ​
• M. Drew Williams: “Union,” “Five Weeks after the Elm Fell on Our Lawn,” and “Straggler”
• Aubree Woelber: “January Evening on Selby Avenue,” “Kalach, A Dozen,” and “Praise”
• Liz Ziska: “No Man’s Landfill,” “Familial Currency,” and “Aquamarine Thirst”
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