It’s an honor to share these electronic pages with the other long-listees… Here’s the link to read my poems, on pages 10 and 11: https://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Aurora-Long-List-Copy-3.pdf
A starry-eyed thank you to The Interpreter’s House for publishing my poem “Cassiopeia”!
Here’s the link to “Cassiopeia” in Issue 84: https://theinterpretershouse.org/greenhause-84
“Holding Hands in the Absence of Parachutes”, finalist in Solstice’s Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize
A huge thank you to everyone at Solstice for selecting my sonnet “Holding Hands in the Absence of Parachutes” as a finalist for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize! Here it is: https://solsticelitmag.org/content/holding-hands-in-the-absence-of-parachutes/
“The cure to all the maladies that ail us”, finalist in The Good Life Review’s Honeybee Prize, featured as a Monday Micro
Thank you to the wonderful people at TGLR for choosing this poem as a finalist! It’s featured as a Micro Monday selection at this link: https://thegoodlifereview.com/2025/10/13/the-cure-to-all-the-maladies-that-ail-us-by-jonathan-greenhause/
“The Celluloid Heroes of New Jersey”, Honourable Mention in subTerrain’s 19th Annual Lush Triumphant Literary Award
Thanks again to the always-phenomenal subTerrain for giving a home to these Jersey heroes! You’ll find a link to this 5-parter here: https://www.subterrain.ca/samples-to-read/the-celluloid-heroes-of-new-jersey
“A Guide to Parenting, with Macaques on Itsukushima”, highly-commended for the 2024 Welsh Poetry Competition
Thanks again to Kathy Miles for highly-commending another one of my poems! The macaques on Itsukushima will be THRILLED when they hear about this!
A link to buying the anthology in which my poem appears with the 2024 winners can be found here: https://www.welshpoetry.co.uk/winners-poetry/
An enormous thanks to Malika Booker for selecting “As Long as You Breathe the Past, It’ll Keep Not Happening” as 1st Prize in the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition!
Here’s the link to the poem: https://www.poetryteignmouth.com/competition-2024.html
Here’s the link to the 2024 Birdy Poetry Prize announcement, readings, and Q & A
Congrats to Alicia Rebecca Myers for winning this year’s Birdy Poetry Prize with “Warble”!
And thanks again to Tracy Million Simmons and Linzi Garcia of Meadowlark Press for organizing this wonderful reading!
Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UH2PIk-IUw
My reading is from 19:05 to 28:03, and the individual poems begin at:
20:10: Circles
22:05: Animal House
23:35: Unwrapped
25:37: Fireflies & Ice Cream
26:25: Cradle
Please also check out Zachary Lundgren’s reading starting at 4:00, Alison Hicks’ reading at 28:05, and Alicia Rebecca Myers’ reading at 48:00, and a TERRIFIC Q&A Session starting at 102:00!
A big thank you to Harpur Palate for publishing my poem “A Clear Field With Oxen Plowing the Constellated Heavens”!
Thank you again to the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Contest for selecting my poem “Russian Nesting Dolls” as a 2023 Laureates’ Choice!
“Russian Nesting Dolls” can be read here on Page 22:
Many thanks to Arts University Bournemouth for longlisting and publishing my poems “Bidding Goodbye to the Ghosts of Our Alternate Histories” and “Infinity, & Zero” in their 2023 Digital Anthology!
“Bidding Goodbye to the Ghosts of Our Alternate Histories (page 22) and “Infinity, & Zero” (page 35) can be read here:
My two poems “A PARTIAL ACCOUNTING OF EVERYTHING THAT’S GONE WRONG” and “SHOWERED IN CONFETTI” can be read here on Saranac Review’s website
Thank you to Saranac Review for publishing these two poems! Here they are:
My poem “□ Check Here” can now be read “□ here” on RHINO’s website
Thank you to RHINO for publishing my poem “□ Check Here” in their 2022 issue, which can now be accessed online here:
https://rhinopoetry.org/poems/check-here-by-jonathan-greenhause
My poem “Our Shrinking Plot of Earth” can be read here on Acumen’s website
A BIG THANK YOU to Danielle Hope for choosing this poem alongside Anna Barker’s “When I think of my body as a crow” on Acumen‘s “Guest Poems” page!
My poem “How to Take Up Writing Again,” shortlisted for this year’s Wales Poetry Award, can be read on page 10 of the PDF here on the Poetry Wales website:
Link temporarily unavailable, but I’ll update this as soon as the video is back up 🙂
My poem “Foxes & Hounds,” an Editor’s Choice in the 2023 Sandy Crimmins Poetry Contest, can be read here on the Philadelphia Stories website
And congrats to the wonderful poet John Blair for his winning poem, “Aphorism 31: The Immortality Box”, and to all the other contributors, as well!
Here’s a birthday link to my poems “Cradle”, “The Bath”, and “Unwrapped”
And thank you to Meadowlark Press for your wonderful birthday wishes!
https://www.meadowlark-books.com/2022/10/happy-birthday-to-our-newest-meadowlark.html
My poem “At My Niece’s Birthday Party, 1,431 Miles North of Guantánamo,” can be read (and heard) here on the Michigan Quarterly Review website
And an enormous thank you to Urvi Kumbhat for her wonderful commentary afterward 🙂
“Symbolic,” on Michigan Quarterly Review’s Facebook page
Poem written to promote MQR’s upcoming issue “Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink,” which includes my poem “At my niece’s birthday party, 1,431 miles north of Guantanamo”
“To the middle-aged cyclist on a bench by the old cemetery during early morning traffic on Newark Avenue while writing on a small note pad,” appearing online at Allium, 2022
“The Perfect Dad”, from my upcoming book Cupping Our Palms, has been chosen by Billy Collins as an Honorary Mention to be published in the Fish Anthology 2022!
“Adelaide & the Aliens”, appearing online at Banshee Press, Spring/Summer 2018, recent upload
“Nightly Feats of Survival”, appearing online at Bryant Literary Review, 2022
Cupping Our Palms, Winner of Meadowlark Press’s 2022 Birdy Poetry Prize!!!
https://www.meadowlark-books.com/2022/04/congratulations-jonathan-greenhause.html
A million thanks to publisher Tracy Million Simmons, publicist Linzi Garcia, and judge Bart Edelman, who has chosen my manuscript Cupping Our Palms as the winner of Meadowlark Press’s 2022 Birdy Poetry Prize!!! Thank you as well to all the finalists and semifinalists and all the poets and readers out there, without whom we’d all just be writing and reading by ourselves.
Here’s the link to the wonderful Birdy Poetry Prize announcement and reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eINqPahAg4
And here’s a breakdown of the event so you can skip right to:
2:21 – 8:55: A reading by Ruth Maus (“Valentine”)
9:30 – 17:47: A reading by Brian Daldorph (“Kansas Poems”) and 17:47 – 22:51: Brian’s reading of poems by the late Antonio Sanchez-Day (“Taking on Life”)
24:09 – 40:23: A reading by Alison Hicks (“Knowing Is a Branching Trail”)
40:40 – 44:30: Announcement of the finalists and semifinalists
45:10 – 46:15: Tracy’s introduction of Bart Edelman (“Whistling to Trick the Wind”)
46:15 – 48:00: Bart’s introduction to “Cupping Our Palms” and subsequent commentary (48:00 to 50:00)
51:55 – 53:48: A few words (or rather, loss of words) from me, followed by 7 of my poems:
53:48: Thanks a lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling
55:30: Beacons of Light
56:33: Damn Our Shortsightedness
57:53: The fire-escape, no longer weighed down
59:30: To Sugarcoat the Truth
1:01:24: A poem written in my past life as a 15th century Georgian monk
1:02:33: Cupping Our Palms
Again, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MEADOWLARK PRESS!!!!
“After 3 Days”, appearing online at Permafrost Magazine, 2022
“Shedding Wilderness”, appearing online at Roanoke Review, 2022
“You Once Felt Gigantic”, New Ohio Review, Fall 2019, recent audio recording
“Consoling The Whims Of The Tiniest, Whiniest Dictators”, highly-commended for the 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition
My tiny whiny dictating children and I would like to thank Kathy Miles for selecting this poem for 10th place — obviously in honor of the greatest soccer player in the world, Lionel Messi — in the Welsh Poetry Competition. Congrats to the winner Estelle Price for her wonderful
ekphrastic poem “iii”.
“Eviction”, appearing online at New York Quarterly, 2021
“Babu Bangladesh!” by Numair Atif Choudhury
You should order this novel RIGHT NOW. It is BRILLIANT.
Jonathan Greenhause 