Poetry Quarterly Fall 2010 (Prize Winner Edition) Featuring: Susan Davis (Grand Prize Winner 2010)*** The Season Begins in a Waiting Room 1st Runner Up Mary Parker To the Young Girls 2nd Runner Up Anthony De Gregorio Japanese Musicians 3rd Runner Up Sarah Sousa Comic/Tragic 4rd Runner Up Sarah Sousa The Memory is a Faulty Instrument 5th Runner Up (Tied for 5th) Christopher Bursk Why Algebra Ought Not to be Taught 5th Runner Up (Tied for 5th) Sherman Pearl Read the Label, She Said WINTER WISH GAIL HUFFER VOYEURISM MATT RYAN ANGEL POSTURE COLIN DEKEERSGIETER CONCLUDING INSOMNIA COLIN DEKEERSGIETER ON THE WATERFRONT, FLORIANA ROB SCHULTZ WARD JONTER RI GADSON IDAHO PRIMER JONTERRI GADSON NOT JUMPING BUT FALLING HEATHER LENOIR CATCALLS HENRY 7. RENEAU, JR. SOME OTHER MEA CULPA EDWARD RAGG REVERSING SONNETS EDWARD RAGG WALKING BACKWARDS EDWARD RAGG DREAMING OF LITTLE RED WINNONA PASQUINI SAYING GOODBYE TO THE ARMADILLO FALLON COLLINS BURIAL STEPHANIE ANDERSON AUGUST ASHLEE PAXTON-TURNER INTUIT THE SPADE JIM DAVIS LETHAL SWIRL OF PASSION ROSIE POVA CHECKED OUT ALAYNE PETERSON AFTER THE BLAST ALAYNE PETERSON AT A STARBUCKS; WITH A FRIEND STEPHANIE HARPER DAMN BRACES. BLESS RELAXES JASON LEVITT A BOY ON A BASKETBALL COURT SCOTT BRENNAN THE FLAP OF A BUTTERFLY’S WINGS... STEVE MCKEAN STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA ANTHONY JONES SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF SO WHAT ANTHONY JONES AFTER THE FOG J.B. ROWELL EPITAPHS GERALD JONAS BEFORE WINTER ARRIVES ASHWATHI IYER ADAM"S BLUES JESSE WATERS PUSH PAUL PIATKOWSKI FIRST HARRY KALAS THEN BOB SHEPPARD PAUL PIATKOWSKI AMERICAN SHEET & TIN PLATE CO. THOM DAWKINS LAUDS THOM DAWKINS FOUND IN MY GARDEN AFTER THE RAIN MATT DENNISON SUBJECT: LOVE IAN CHUNG CAPTAIN OF THE BURNING SHIP MANGESH NAIK MY FAVORITE SEA ROCK MANGESH NAIK CARPENTER"S SONG MATTHEW BROWN A POTENTIALLY QUITE REMARKABLE THURSDAY JEFF COOMER SOLUTIO FAIRNESS PECK EVERLASTING BALANCE APARNA MUKHEDKAR THE WELL JOHN O"REILLY HOT HOUSE PLANTS RACHEL OLIVIER WARM ISCHEMIA CHRISTIE ISLER LAESTRYGONIANS HURLING ROCKS AT THE FLEET OF ODYSSEUS JIM DAVIS EXPLANATION EMILY ALLEN THE OPENING ABIGAIL GREEN-DOVE COMING OF AGE CHARLES MANIS WHEN I FIND THE NOTE TRAILING OFF INTO A PHONE NUMBER CHARLES MANIS KNOW THE PLACE FOR THE FIRST TIME MATT HOWARD THE AYUHUASCA CEREMONY SEAN THOMAS PARALLAX EMILY ALLEN ST. DENIS IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CEMETERY EMILY ALLEN TEMPORARY SOLACE KATHERINE MCINTYRE WHERE IS KAFKA WHEN YOU NEED HIM? J. J. STEINFELD DISPOSAL CHLOE VINER PASTORAL OF A CHILD ZEBADIAH TAYLOR COW EYES MARJORIE CONNOLLY DANTE IN THE MODERN STYLE GREGORY WEBER