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TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY


 

Turtle Island Poetry Award

 

Sorry, there will be no contest this year.

previous winners:

 

Turtle Island Poetry Awards:

2013: Michael Spring for Blue Wolf

2014: Katherine Soniat for The Goodbye Animals

2015: Sara Backer for Bicycle Lotus

2016: Ted Jean for Desultory Sonnets

2017: Darryl  Lorenzo Wellington  for Life's Prisoners

Editor's Choice Chapbook Awards:

2014: Joan Colby for Pro Forma

2015: Judith Arcana for Here from Somewhere Else

2016: Martin Willitts Jr. for The Wire Fence Holding Back the World

and Gary Lark for River of Solace

2017 Sara Clancy for Ghost Logic

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Issue15 Summer/2018

ISSUE 14 Winter/Spring 2018

ISSUE 13 SUMMER/FALL 2017

ISSUE12 SPRING/2017

 

ISSUE 11FALL/WINTER 2016

ISSUE 10 Spring/Fall 2016

 

ISSUE 9 Summer/Fall 2015

 

 ISSUE 8 SPRING/2015

 

ISSUE7 WINTER/2015

 

TIQ6: Fall Issue 2014

 

TIQ5: Summer Issue 2014

 

TIQ4: Spring Issue 2014

 

TIQ3: Winter Issue 2014

 

TIQ2: Fall Issue 2013

 

TIQ1: Summer Issue 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY 24

Winter 2022/2023

2 poems by Michael Lauchlan, 4 poems by Sara Backer,

2 poems by Barbara Parchim, a poem by Lorrie Ness, 

a poem by Pepper Trail, a poem by Mark DeCarteret,

and 2 poems by Michael Spring

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Turtle Island Quarterly 23

2022

featured poet:  Michael Spring (4 poems),poem by Lorrie Ness, 2 poems by Joan Mazza,poem by Jared Smith, poem by Barbara Parchim,poem by Paul Willis, poem byJ.I. Kleinberg,poem by Emily Ransdell, poem by Tim Mayo,poem by Brett Warren,poem by Bill Griffin,poem by Richard Weaver, and haiku by Xiaoly Li
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TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY 25

Winter/Spring 2024

 

 

2 poems by LORRIE NESS, 2 poems by BILL GRIFFIN, a poem by PAUL J. WILLIS,

2 poems by ELEANOR KEDNEY, a poem by CHRIS ANDERSON,

a poem by KOLBE RINER, 2 poems by LIZ WEIR,

2 poems by JC ALFIER, a poem by JERRY SMALDONE

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Winter/Spring 2020

TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY 18

featuring:

Peter Grandbois, Sara Backer, Paul Jones, Barbara Daniels,

Sam Barbee, Al Ortolani, Martin Willitts Jr., William Cullen Jr.,

Michael Spring, Jonah Bornstein,  John Davis, John L. Stanizzi

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TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY 20

​Fall/Winter 2021​

Poems by Lorrie Ness ( featured poet), Peter Grandbois, Karen McPherson, Michael Spring, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington,  Sara Backer, Paul Willis, P. L. Watts, Michael Estabrook, Robert Knox, Claire Keyes, Roger Camp, Suzanne S. Rancourt, Wayne Allen Jones, Jared Smith, and an essay by Chila Woychik 

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TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY 21

Summer 2021​

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2 poems by Vivian Eyre, poem by Jayne Marek, poem by

Mary Beth Hines, 2 poems by Mark DeCarteret,

poem by Barbara Parchim, poem by Will Cordeiro,

poem by Kathleen Brewin Lewis, 2 poems by Michael Spring,

poem by Caroline Johnson, poem by Barbara Daniels,

poem by Martin Willitts Jr., poem by Pepper Trail,  

poem by Sara Backer, poem by John L. Stanizzi,

lyric essay by M.J.Iuppa

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TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY 22

2022

featured poet: Peter Grandbois ( 3 poems), 

with special feature:

Ukraniane poet Lyudmyla Diadchenko/ translated by Padma Thornlyre,

2 poems by Joan Mazza, poem by Lorrie Ness, poem by Sara Backer,

poem by Elisabeth Harrahy, 2 poems by Tamara Kaye Sellman,

poem by Leonore Wilson, poem by Mary Beth Hines, poem by Michael Spring,

poem by Robert Beveridge, 2 poems by Charles Rossiter,

and another special feature: 3 poems by contributing editor Jared Smith

 

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TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY 19

Spring/Summer 2020

Featured poets: SARA BACKER and GEORGE DREW

Book Reviews by MARGE SIMON and JARED SMITH

Poems by LORRIE NESS, WILLIAM DORESKI,

GERARD SARNAT, JOAN COLBY,

BARBARA PARCHIM, KIKA DORSEY, 

MICHAEL LAUCHLAN,  JOHN GREY, 

ELIZABETH WEIR, ANNETTE SISSON,

MARTIN WILLITTS JR., JOHN L. STANIZZI,

and a story by JIM ROSS

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TURTLE ISLAND QUARTERLY 17 SPRING/SUMMER 2019

featuring: Sara Backer, Terri Kirby Erickson, Martin Willitts Jr,

Daniel Romo, Mark Thalman, Roger Camp, David P Miller, Michael Jones, Storey Clayton, Jennifer Markell,

Michael Spring, DS Maolalai,  Sarah Hase, Gerard Sarnat

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