Clearing: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Originally from central Pennsylvania, Allison Adair is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, Kenyon Review Online, North American Review, and ZYZZYVA, among other journals. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors' Award, the Orlando Prize, and first place in Mid-American Review's Fineline Competition, Adair lives in Boston, where she teaches at Boston College and GrubStreet.

The Clearing
I
After the Police Have Been Called
Letter to My Niece, in Silverton, Colorado
As for the Glossy Green Tractor You Were
Miscarriage
Week Six of the Fire
Self-Portrait as Cenotaph
Hitching
Debt
First Plow at Red Mountain Pass
Herr's Ridge, 1983: A Reenactment
Fine Arts
Angelus
Silverton
What We Should Really Be Afraid Of
II
Fable
Ways to Describe a Death Inside Your Own Living Body
Mother of 2 Stabbed to Death in Silverton
Local Music
Gettysburg
Advice for the New Mother
Crown Cinquain for the Tattooed Man I Refused
He Waited for Days
As I Near Forty I Think of You Then
When Horses Turn Down the Road
Letter to My Foundling: #235, Boy
Memento Mori: Bell Jar with Suspended Child
III
Western Slope
Whale Fall
If Imagination and Memory Met Unexpectedly, One Last Time
Morning Tea
Mine Fire at Centralia
Stopping Over the Arno
City Life
Flight Theory
What Falls Behind
No Response
Recurring Dream
Crown Cinquain for a Lost Child, Eight Years Later
At the Park One Day, My Six-Year-Old Asks If Mermaids Are Real
The Age We Were
Local History
River Bone
Honey
Disaster at Gold King Mine
The Big Thinkers
RD 8 Box 16A (Rural Route)
Bear Fight in Rockaway