- Nicole Grace – One Note
Nicole Grace's "One Note" is a sensory exploration of contemplation, alive with natural and meditative imagery.
- Patrice Bavos – Sedona Prayer
New Jersey poet Patrice Bavos offers a gracious praise poem of a spiritual place with her lovely "Sedona Prayer".
- Eloise Klein Healy – Iris
Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".
- Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt
With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.
- Mark Hammerschick – Permafrostedness Rising
"Permafrostedness Rising" is a tragic poem written from the perspective of native arctic people, detailing a world altered by climate change.
