Patricia Carragon: "Frozen Kisses" Mercedes Dawson: "Ink Stained" John Dorsey: "A Red Sea of Burning Bridges" Courtney Elmlinger: "Caught Along The Veins Of A Sugar Maple" Barry Graham: "Keeping Your Promises: to Robert Frost" Carol Lynn Grellas: "My Mother's Piano" Michael D. Grover: "Brushing Grandma's Hair" Alicia Hoffman: "Majestic" Doug Holder: "Private Dining Under a Blouse" Steffen Horstmann: "Broken Ghazal" Samantha Ledger: "Tie me to the oak tree" Thomas Michael McDade: "Call Dreams Kites" Jillian Parker: "Somewhere in the Silence" Kelly Rose Pflug-Back: "Birch", "A Cure For The Water Trapped Inside Your Body" Gillian Prew: "the gnawing sorrow" S.P.: "Release" Ray Succre: "I’ve Seen the Burning Day Rise Too Soon" Diana Norma Szokolyai: "Skeleton of a Whale"