Contributors
Andrew Adair
Suus Agnes
Ashia Ajani
Jay Alexander
Visual: Contemporary Interpretation of Classical Chinese Art Themes
plum blossom (Issue V)
Scott Edward Anderson
Becoming (from Dwelling: an ecopoem,
Honorable Mention for the 2017 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Mary Ardery
Philip Arnold
Visual: Boneyard, Hunting Island, South Carolina
Eric Atkisson
D. Slayton Avery
David Axelrod
Summer Evenings in the Grande Ronde (Issue II)
Apostles of Imminence (from Cold Mornings of the Northern Spring,
Runner-Up for the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Balk
Matthew James Babcock
Short Discourse on Species (Issue II)
Maggie Blake Bailey
Dusk (Issue I)
Reservoir (Issue I)
Joe Balaz
Start Talking Dolphin (Issue V)
Vrinda Baliga
Cathy Barber
Brit Barnhouse
Jai Hamid Bashir
Jack B. Bedell
Stevie Belchak
Kyce Bello
Grass Widow (from Refugia, Runner-Up for the 2018 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Fatma Benkirane
Anne Bergeron
Beka Bevans
Anisha Bhaduri
Nina Bhatt
Rhony Bhopla
I Would Have Said to My Mother This Spring
My Mother Said to Me Last Spring
Hannah Mae Bissell
Monarch (Issue II)
Daybreak Chorus (from Heartwood,
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Sebastian Bitticks
Galen Clark Recalls Sunrise Over the High Sierras (Issue III)
Ralph Black
Apiarial (from Bloom and Laceration, Winner of the 2017 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Stephen Black
Reversals
Heirlooms: Watershed Redemption by Diana Hartel
Heirlooms: The Bones of Winter Birds by Ann Fisher-Wirth
Lydia Boehm
Visual: Plant and Floral Figures
Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier
A Negative Heart (Issue II)
Waiting to Embrace (Issue II)
Betsy Bolton
Bryan Boodhoo
Jemma Borg
Heather Bourbeau
Despy Boutris
Rachel Bower
Zoe Boyer
Joanna Brichetto
What White Tree is Blooming Now (Issue III)
Dragonfly, Secondhand (Issue V)
Zoë Brigley
Blind Horse Elegy (from Letter to a Horse's Head, Runner-Up for the 2018 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Linda Briskin
Michael Brosnan
Mikita Brottman
Ada Brown
Julie Phillips Brown
Substrata (from The Adjacent Possible, Winner of the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Rachel Burlock
Vivian Calderón Bogoslavsky
Visual: Identifying the Stains
Julia María Schiavone Camacho
Lauren Camp
Face, Circle, Abundant
Various Companions (Issue IV)
Hush Point
Roger Camp
Visual: Fallen Angels
Orange Clock Vine (Thunbergia gregorii) (Issue V)
Spring Crocuses (Crocus nudiforus) (Issue V)
Sarah Capdeville
A. Henry Carnell
Lia-Lucine Cary
Jennifer Case
Visual: Climate Collage Postcards
Mason Cashman
Jess Cherofsky
Rina Garcia Chua
Allisonn Church
Harry Clough
Brian D. Cohen
Orb (Issue II)
Nest (Issue II)
Tree Trunk I (Willow) (Issue I)
Tree Trunk II (Douglas Fir) (Issue I)
Tree Trunk III (Douglas Fir) (Issue I)
Tree Trunk IV (Maple) (Issue I)
Whale (Issue II)
Caroline Collins
Erika Connor
A Gathering of Crows (Issue IV)
A Feather from the Crows (Issue IV)
Erin Conway
Sandy Coomer
Archipelago (Issue III)
Hemisphere (Issue III)
Lake Superior (Issue III)
Pebble Beach (Issue III)
Róisín Á Costello
Candace R. Craig
William C. Crawford
High Tension Juice Heading for LA, Hoover Dam (Issue I)
Hooded View of Death Valley Crater (Issue I)
David Crews
On Wilderness: Rethinking Climate Crisis
To dream, swim (from Incantation, Honorable Mention for the 2020 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Jesse Curran
The Space Between: On Climate Change and Haiku Perception
Brendan Curtinrich
Frances Davis
Noah Davis
Heron on Blood and Water (Issue II)
Todd Davis
Upon Finding a Skull (Issue II)
Pawpaw Elegy
Natalie Deam
Janine DeBaise
Louis Dennis
Crocuses (Issue V)
Orange Hibiscus (Issue V)
Prickly Pear (Issue V)
Red Hot Pokers (Issue V)
Erin Despard
M. C. Benner Dixon
Elizabeth Dodd
In the Cabinet of Wonders (from In the Cabinet of Wonders, Honorable Mention for the 2018 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Boson Particles, Light Snow (Issue IV)
Maximiliane Donicht
Vis Inertiae
Alexis Doshas
Abandoned Trailer & Cemetery (Issue III)
Butterfly Meeting (Issue III)
Poppy Seed Heads (Issue III)
Donelle Dreese
Rachel Carson at Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Young Rachel Carson (from Organelle, Honorable Mention for the 2018 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Small Towns (from Organelle, Honorable Mention for the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Benjamin DuBow
Danielle Dubrasky
Venus (from Lighting Out for the Invisible, Runner-Up for the 2020 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Clair Dunlap
Pond in the Woods (1922) (Issue V)
Julie Dunlap
Heirlooms: Sudden Spring by Rick Van Noy
Ryler Dustin
Sara Dykman
Kristin Dykstra
Meg Eden
Melissa Eleftherion
The Hierophant as Brown Marmorated Stink-Bug
Aaron El Sabrout
Renee Emerson
Naomi Ernest
Jean Anne Feldeisen
Nicholas Finch
H. E. Fisher
Ocean: An Autobiography
Sound Fossil
Jeffrey Flannery
Danielle Fleming
Catherine Fletcher
Alice B Fogel
Lucas Foglia
David R. Forman
Kadi Franson
Mike Freeman
Melynda Fuller
The Whole of the Moon (Issue II)
Molly Fuller
Fractals of Skin Hunger (Issue V)
Andrew Furman
Michael Garrigan
Coal Country Paradise (Issue V)
Thea Gavin
Hiking Across Grand Canyon Alone At Night Barefoot
Anisa George
Nina George
Mimi German
Afflicted (from Eyes of Horse Hair, Honorable Mention for the 2020 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Katrina Gersie-Spronk
Heirlooms: One Size Fits None by Stephanie Anderson
Matthew Gigg
Jessica Gigot
Caitlin Gildrien
Surface Tension
The Secret to Getting the Ants Off the Peonies
Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
Charity Gingerich
The Afterlife of Lepidoptera (from After June, Winner of the 2018 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Sarah Giragosian
Ben Goldfarb
Emma Goldgar
Visual: Mother Nature
Hireath (Issue V)
Werifesteria (Issue V)
Heather E. Goodman
Benjamin Goodridge
Andrew Gottlieb
Robin Gow
Samaré Gozal
Visual: Ett tyst år / A Silent Year
Lauren Grabelle
Visual: Natural Boundaries
Elephant, W. 33rd Street (Issue III)
Galápagos Giant Tortoise, Museum of Natural History (Issue III)
Giraffe, Bronx Zoo (Issue III)
Penguins, Central Park Zoo (Issue III)
Nicole Grace
John Grant
Charlotte Gross
Maricela Guerrero
Amy Guidry
Visual: In Our Veins
Issue III Cover Art: Sustain
Carolyn Guinzio
Sekyo Nam Haines
Gabriela Halas
I become then
Hunting with My Father
Kenia D. Hale
Christopher Harris
Chestnut Tree (North Dartmouth, MA) (Issue V)
Monkeypod Tree (Papaikou, HI) (Issue V)
Sweetwater Wetlands (Tucson, AZ) (Issue V)
Maple Tree (Seattle, WA) (Issue V)
JoeAnn Hart
Terizen (Issue II)
Reef of Plagues
David Hawkins
Kathleen Hellen
Beric Henderson
Nestling (Issue IV)
Tree of Man (Issue IV)
Issue IV Cover Art: Family Tree
Anna Hengstberger
Billie Hinton
To The Grassy Bald We Named Sweet Bay
Jennifer Steensma Hoag
Amy Hoagland
Emily Alta Hockaday
Marybeth Holleman
Natalie Homer
Under the Broom Tree (from Under the Broom Tree,
Honorable Mention for the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Ray Hudson
Heirlooms: Telling My Father by James Crews
Marcia Hurlow
The Grace of Loss (from To All Appearances, Runner-Up for the 2020 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Iqbal Hussain
Rhiannon Inman-Simpson
Alyssa Irizarry
Cobra Skull (Issue II)
Hummingbird Skull (Issue II)
Octopus (Issue I)
Squid I (Issue I)
Visual: Querencia
Nicholas James
Russell James
Wes Jamison
Pitcher Plants, Kisatchie National Forest
Melissa Jean
Joe Jiménez
And what if I’m not more than any of this? (Issue III)
Still Life of a Monte Unwilling to Be Anyone's Death
(from Beastlight, Runner-up for the 2017 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Christopher Johnson
Acadia National Park: A Confession
A Wander on Monadnock
Elsa Johnson
Moonstuck (from The Wind Speaks, Winner of the 2020 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Madison Jones
Vacation at the End of the World (Issue V)
Rebecca Kanaskie
Aris Katsilakis
Talley V. Kayser
Cuttings (Issue I)
Room for Craft: Michael Branch
Notes from the End of the Affair
A Better Animal (Issue IV)
Maura Kelly
Jenny Kendler
Spawning III (Upstream) (Issue I)
Whooping Cranes with Polluted Sky (Issue I)
Ravitte Kentwortz
A Fishwife’s Song of Incredulous Burn
Brandon Kilbourne
Elia Anie Kim
Joe Klementovich
Eli J. Knapp
Searching for a Landscape Identity
Brian Kohl
Nikki J. Kolb
Ted Kooser
A Summer Linden (Issue II)
At Dusk, in December (Issue IV)
Kateri Kosek
Wreck of the Michigan: An Inquiry (Issue III)
Adrie Kusserow
Brian Laidlaw
Dyno Simulator: Rock Climbing & Ecopoetic Practice
Linda Laino
Nest (Issue III)
Offering #2 (Issue III)
Susanna Lang
Heather Lang-Cassera
Alexis Lathem
Bérgère
Not This
Pastoral (Issue I)
Penelope’s Resistance
Colette Lawlor
Mercedes Lawry
Wild Horse Island, August 2020
Ian Lee
Kamakshi Lekshmanan
Clare Walker Leslie
Jim Lewis
Joseph Lezza
Xiaoly Li
Winter Coleus
Unsung, Five Cinquains
Kali Lightfoot
Barbara Liles
What Would Emily Say? (Issue V)
Nicholas Littman
David Lloyd
Kendrick Loo
Nancy Lord
Whose Words These Are (Issue III)
Yvonne Love
Jane Lovell
Mark Luebbers
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Age 5, Considers the Causes of Exile and Migration (Issue III)
Sherry Luo
Jeanne Lutz
Home Variations (from Until the Kingdom Comes,
Runner-Up for the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Brandi Malarkey
Snake Skin (Issue V)
Issue V Cover Art: Swallowtail (Protesilaus glaucolaus) and Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)
Ken Malatesta
Farzana Marie
Jeremy Nathan Marks
Anna Martin
Robert Martin
Visual: Ruralcore, Rural Queer
Samantha Martin-Bird
Sam Masler
Illustrations (Issue I)
First Chanterelle
Pastoral
Polistes carolina
Ghazal: Quilt
Sara Massidda
And we’ll be there (Issue III)
Jerry D. Mathes II
Ramsey Mathews
Grant McClure
Meridith McClure
Micah Daniel McCrotty
Beth McDermott
Anne Haven McDonnell
The Woman Who Held a Fish in Her Hands (from Breath on a Coal, Runner-Up for the 2020 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Love Poem for a Friend (Issue V)
Bosque
Daniel McGee
Eliza McGowen
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Ocean (Issue II)
Heidi McKinley
T. J. McLemore
Room for Craft: Jorge Perez-Gallego
Lucien Meadows
Portrait of My Father as Icarus
Paul Anthony Melhado
Alley Pine (Issue IV)
Kissena Back Lot (Issue IV)
Kissena Trees (Issue IV)
Winter lake (Issue IV)
Michelle Menting
Vanessa Micale
Emily K. Michael
Ben Michelman
My Mom Takes My Nine-Month-Old Son to Put Down Her Dog
Jessica Miles
Amy Miller
These Horses Will Not Be Harnessed
Instructions for Entering Paradise (Issue V)
For a Laid-Off Worker
Caroline Miller
Badlands (Issue I)
Hollow (Issue I)
Overset (Issue I)
Daniel Miller
John MacNeill Miller
Caroline Misner
Jason R. Montgomery
Visual: “Death of Lake Cahuilla”
Ellene Glenn Moore
Ruth Nakamura
Martha Nance
Admiring a night’s work, My Yard, Minnesota (Issue V)
Bright sunshiny day, My Yard, Minnesota (Issue V)
Rodney Nelson
The Day of Saint Richard of Wyche
Mary Newell
A Bias Toward the Beneficial (Issue II)
Shelby Newsom
Jessica Ng
Shilo Niziolek
Mitchell Nobis
Field Trees (from We Hold These Truths,
Runner-Up for the 2019 Hopper Poetry Prize)
It’s All High Tide Now
Lisa Novick
Relationship is Everything (Issue V)
Rachyl Nyoka
Paulina Bianca Ocampo
The Sea King’s Daughter in the Post-Colonial
Donna O’Connell-Gilmore
Salaam Odeh
Jim O’Donnell
Carolyn Oliver
Irene Hardwicke Olivieri
Reverie of the seals (Issue III)
Ned Olmsted
Tyra Olstad
Rina Olsen
My Grandfather Says the Polar Bears Are Coming Soon
Tyler Orion
Post-Surgery Exposure to Wind, Water
Ana Martínez Orizondo
Rita Orrell
Sir David Attenborough, I Think I Love You
Maia Pandey
Aditya Pandya
Bobby Parrott
Emily Paskevics
Margie Patlak
Shalini Pattabiraman
Marissa Paysinger
The Difference Between the Map and the Bird
George Perreault
Katherine N. Peters
Jyothsna Phanija
Sarah Platenius
Waterfall (Issue IV)
Water Bug (Issue IV)
We Are Held (Issue V)
For Snow (Issue V)
Visual: Uncharted Wonder
Kristen M. Ploetz
Waiting for the Hoarfrost
When the Cardinal Takes Flight (Issue I)
Mary Jane Pories
Visual: Flashes: Color Notes on Pleasure and Pain
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Visual: Mixed-Media Landscapes
Sean Prentiss
Jessica Purdy
Gwendolyn Pryor
Erin Elkins Radcliffe
Hui Ran
even a caged bird is free in the mind
Anna Reeve
Kristen Staby Rembold
Long Ago (from Music Lesson, Honorable Mention for the 2017 Hopper Poetry Prize)
The Sower
Forest Bathing
Susan Richardson
Hannah Richter
Meghan Rigali
Rebecca Ritter
José A. Rivera
Laura Rockhold
Ellie Rogers
Amber Rollinson
Jenny Ruth
Burn It, Bury It, Send It Down River (Issue I)
Pat Ryan
John Saad
Safeguard (from Longleaf, Winner of the 2016 Hopper Prize for Young Poets)
Priyanka Sacheti
Photographing Flowers in a Winter Called the Pandemic
Htet T. San
Visual: The Frail Second
Natural Disasters (Issue IV)
Kasey Butcher Santana
Escape to the Hive: Keeping Bees to Keep Myself
Chris Schacht
Lisa Schantl
Chantel Schott
Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Visual: Mutational Coexistence
black bear story
Abby Seethoff
A Newcomer’s Guide to Recycling in Missoula
Sibani Sen
Dave Seter
Stopping by Bombay Hook (Issue IV)
Hibah Shabkhez
Tara K. Shepersky
Off-Base (Issue IV)
Dispatches from the Middle of the Night
Gift
Mona Shomali
Issue II Cover Art: Pesticide Trail
Kayann Short
Food for Bears (Issue I)
Swallowtail Summer
sid sibo
green crow gleaming
Incongruous
Jim Sienkiewicz
Dorsía Smith Silva
Leonora Simonovis
Stephen Siperstein
First Chanterelle by an Old Hunting Road (Issue I)
Sound of Waves (Issue II)
Telling my Students About Hope (Issue II)
Glacier Imitation
Judith Skillman
Fire Behavior (Issue III)
Yakima River, October (Issue III)
Visual: Five Paintings
Glacial Moons (Issue V)
J.D. Smith
The Starfish (Issue I)
Questions on Toads (Issue I)
Michael Smith
Consider All the Possibilities (Issue II)
Shayla Smith
Megan Snyder-Camp
Susan Solomon
Adam Sonstegard
Gwendolyn Soper
Mark Spitzer
Heirlooms: Fishing Through the Apocalypse by Matthew L. Miller
Brett Ann Stanciu
Rebecca Starks
Carol Steinhagen
Eric Fisher Stone
My Eighth Birthday
The Songs of Animals (Issue II)
Meredith Stricker
Writing like trees, writing with trees (Issue IV)
Paradise, That Other Place Residing Here (Issue V)
Heather Swan
Gem (Issue III)
Vespers (from Root Causes, Honorable Mention for the 2017 Hopper Poetry Prize)
After (Issue V)
Lake Edge, January
Suzanne Swanson
Kelsey Swintek
Visual: Costa Rica
Issue I Cover Art
Ag Synclair
Christy Tending
Popsicles at the End of the World
Alice Thomas
John Thomson
Don Thompson
Fruit trees next door (Issue I)
Night Walk (Issue II)
Palm Dairy (Issue I)
Solitary Bees (Issue II)
Kerry R. Thompson
Bloom (Issue II)
Europa (Issue II)
Treadmill (Issue II)
Ursul (Issue II)
Michael Thompson
Visual: Kites
Idyll and Eden (Issue V)
Natalie Tomlin
An Untestable Question (Issue III)
Leath Tonino
Heather Tourgee
Alyssa Towns
Travis Truax
Driving Oklahoma Is Rarely Met with Much Excitement (Issue IV)
Brigit Truex
Genesis According to Stone (Issue III)
Traces (from The History of Water, Runner-Up for the 2017 Hopper Poetry Prize)
Bathsheba Veghte
Natalie Vestin
We Were Here: Cigarette/Deadheads (Issue I)
We Were Here: Snake/Mandible (Issue I)
Rosarium
Jyothi Vinod
Kelly Garriott Waite
Cynthia Scott Wandler
Chelsey Waters
Tim Weed
Heirlooms: To Look Out From by Dede Cummings
Jess Weitz
Amy Weldon
Elizabeth J. Wenger
Rebecca Stetson Werner
Fran Westwood
Joseph Harlan White
Angelica Whitehorne
Maya White-Lurie
Margaret Whitlock
Amie Whittemore
Room for Craft: Allison Hutchcraft
Amelia L. Williams
Department of Agriculture Photographer, 1943
Jess Williard
This Year
Succession (Issue III)
Succession (Issue III)
Rebekah Wolman
Jenny Wong
Heirlooms: Wander-Thrush by David Crews
Lilac Bush
Christian Woodard
Eun-mi Yang
Anthea Yip
John Yohe
Rebecca Young
Vey Yu
Isaac Yuen
Life Lessons from the Odd and Ancient