Poetry in Plain Sight: April 2026-March 2027
48 poems were selected for the current Poetry in Plain Sight program year:
April 2026
- Susan Spalt: “Without Poetry”
- Joseph Bathanti: “In This Ether”
- Christina Ruotolo: “Sing…Her”
- Robert Hill Long: “Art and Labor”
May 2026
- Dave Russo: “How Oak Trees Spread Across North America”
- Anna Lena Phillips Bell: “Paean”
- John Hoppenthaler: “And Also, the Floods”
- Anne Emler: “hummingbird haiku”
June 2026
- Kit Wienert: “Sense of the Past”
- Morrow Dowdle: “White Deer”
- Becky Gould Gibson: “Perhaps the Rain”
- Ross White: “Young Adult”
July 2026
- Michael Boccardo: “How to be a Force of Nature: Volcano”
- Jenny Hubbard: “Rescue”
- Caroline Kenna: “Feast for the Eyes”
- Scott Owens: “Cicada”
August 2026
- Alys Traylor: “By the Gaslight”
- Caroline Grinton: “I Close My Eyes”
- Vicky Teng: “At the Super Global Market”
- Maxwell Wei: “Harvesting a Year’s Worth”
September 2026
- Kenneth Chamlee: “Classified”
- Pam Baggett: “Grandmother”
- Paige Gilchrist: “September”
- Kathy Weisfeld: “Graveside”
October 2026
- Debra Kaufman: “Skunk as Wallflower”
- Karen Luke Jackson: “Feast on these Things”
- Chris Abbate: “Cold Front”
- Claire Hermann: “Persimmons”
November 2026
- Dean Marshall Tuck: “TV Static”
- Maura High: “After a Controlled Burn, Mop-Up”
- Jane Shlensky: “Of a Mind”
- Beth Copeland: “Late November”
December 2026
- Valerie Macon: “Midnight Train”
- S.L. Cockerille: “Reasonable Mourning”
- Nancy Martin-Young: “Exuberance”
- Joanne Durham: “Starfish Lane”
January 2027
- Janis Harrington: “Snowshoeing in the Italian Alps”
- Katie Seymour: “Conspiracy of Truth”
- Lora Hawkins: “Heisenberg Tells Us”
- Michael Pope: “Cardinal”
February 2027
- Mary Alice Dixon: “After You Hear the Greening”
- Liza Wolff-Francis: “Becoming Sculpture”
- Bridget Bell: “All These Beautiful Bodies”
- Doida Gilmer: “Darkwalkers”
March 2027
- Paul Jones: “Red Cockaded Woodpecker”
- Florence Nash: “Uneasy Season”
- Bridget Baker: “Being/Becoming”
- Jackson Benson: “Good Veins”
About the Selections
128 North Carolina poets submitted 334 poems for consideration. The poems were judged anonymously by Karen Mittet and James Wyshynski.