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.
“Outside Greater L.A.”, highly-commended for the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry, from The Poetry School
Boundless buckets of gratefulness to judges Simon Armitage and Jade Cuttle for selecting my poem “Outside Greater L.A.” as one of the highly-commended poems to be published in The Poetry School’s Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry! And congratulations to Jane Lovell for her prize-winning “Ming” 🙂
And you can download and peruse at your leisure the entire 2020 anthology here:
“Unwrapped”, from Fourteen Hills’ Zoom reading on May 28th, 2021
A huge thank you to Rachel Huefner and the rest of the editing team at Fourteen Hills (especially the poetry editors, Sen Ruiz and Trianne Harabedian) for a wonderful virtual reading last Friday for Issue 27, Summer 2021! The following is a link to my reading of “Unwrapped”, which can be heard from 33:22 to 35:30, and be sure to catch Olive Maurstad’s fantastic story “Last One” right after it 🙂
https://www.14hills.net/c131280e-3990-4a3f-8e83-a4b69f855beb
“How to Raise a Young Child”, longlisted for Regal House Publishing’s 2021 Terry J. Cox Poetry Award
Many thanks to Regal House Publishing for longlisting my manuscript for the 2021 Terry J. Cox Poetry Award! And congratulations to the winner, Sunu P. Chandy, for her collection “My Dear Comrades”! Please check out more regarding Ms. Chandy’s upcoming book and Regal House Publishing by clicking the following:
My “Positively Poetry Reading Series” performance for the Hoboken Public Library’s National Library Week!
Yes, here are those promised cows, daffodils, and the absence of Holocaust poems:
You can almost smell that I-78 highway extension through the thin gloss of YouTube.
And here’s a friendly guide to jump straight to your favorite poems:
00:00 Introduction
01:02 The origin of life
02:28 A small dot appears. A genesis. A thing out of nothing
05:45 Thanks a lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling
07.46 Departing from Sengen Jinja
10:00 Naming Things
11:46 Why My Kid Sobs at the Ice Cream Parlor
14:18 Not a Holocaust Poem
15:53 Cows & Daffodils
17:58 Lakawa a Stat on
20:05 A Single Swallow Doesn’t Signal Spring
20:39 Animal House
22:09 A poem written in my past life as a 15th century Georgian monk
23:32 From Out of the Darkness
26:47 Beacons of Light
28:02 Post 11
29:17 Epilogue
Check out the “Positively Poetry Reading Series” through the Hoboken Public Library!
In honor of National Poetry Month, the Hoboken Public Library is hosting the “Positively Poetry Reading Series” through its Facebook page. Hoboken’s reference librarian, Ethan Galvin, reached out to me and 8 other New Jerseyans who live and breathe poetry (and several cancer-causing chemicals), and he will be uploading our videos every Tuesday and Thursday of this month.
If you love backdrops featuring the I-78 extension, you’ll love my reading, which will be viewable anytime after 7pm on Tuesday April 20th. It’s got cows, daffodils, and definitely no Holocaust poems. Welcome to Spring!
“Exit the Town Drunk”, finalist for The New Guard’s Knightville Poetry Contest
Many thanks to Shanna McNair and Scott Wolven for selecting my poem “Exit the Town Drunk” as a finalist in The New Guard Knightville Poetry Contest 🙂 And special congratulations to the winner, Amy Tibbetts, for her poem “Smooth Rock Tripe”. You can read Amy’s poem and mine in the print edition of Volume X , which will be published early next year; here’s a link to the contest announcements page and information on how to pre-order Volume X:
Jonathan Greenhause 