Olivia Stogner won the Percy Bysshe Shelley Remembered Poetry Contest with her poem "Mary's Creature Speaks," but here are the runners-up.

This profound poem explores the metaphysical relationship between feminine and masculine energies.

Delve into introspection & human connection in this thought-provoking poem. Explore vanity, fear, perception, love, and fleeting moments.

Experience the raw emotion of trauma, shame, and resilience in this evocative poem. A powerful message of hope and healing for all.

King Arthur pondered the question "Is might, right?" Thomas Taylor answered "Yes!" The poem "Suffering, Shame, Rebellion" disagrees.

Olivia Stogner explores what Dr. Victor Frankenstein's monster really is in "Mary's Creature Speaks." The monster is closer than we think.

In this story... an apple turns its back on the ripening sun.

Andrew Levy writes on the intersections of class and the ecology of commerce, and experimental music and the digitalization of freedom.

Three poems by Robert Beveridge that explore the East, divination, and the pursuit of life.

The Empire State, "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere," concrete jungle, Ginsberg's Moluch. This is Benjamin Nardolilli's NY.

Poem by Àngel Vàsquez called The Saints Need Bloom, which addresses diaspora, family, love, and Santería ritual.

Stephen Pearl Andrews, columnist for The Errant Compass, reflects on poets and poetry. Poets as provocateur? Poetry as terror? Read and see.

A memoir through poetry that explores the Borderlands in spaces mental and physical.

Four Tanka Poems From Ukraine Very Much Decalogue+ about the war in Ukraine.