“Nothing in Life is Easy”, shortlisted for the 2020 Sexton Prize for Poetry

May 25, 2020Poetry, PoetsJonathan Greenhause

An enormous thank you to The Black Spring Eyewear Press Group and to judge Terese Svoboda for shortlisting my manuscript for the 2020 Sexton Prize for Poetry, and good luck to all the other shortlisted poets!

https://store.eyewearpublishing.com/blogs/news/announcement-the-2020-sexton-prize-for-poetry-shortlist

Jonathan Greenhause

Poetry, & Other Clearly Delusional States

Category Archives: Poetry

“Nothing in Life is Easy”, shortlisted for the 2020 Sexton Prize for Poetry

“This is Not a Pipe,” The Dalhousie Review, 2016

“Animal House,” selected for The Poetry Society’s “Zoo” competition, 2019

“To Sugarcoat the Truth,” selected for The Poetry Society’s “Truth” competition, 2019

Runner-Up in America’s 2019 Foley Poetry Contest: “Thanks a Lot, Shakespeare, for the Starling”

“Un incendio difícil de traducir”, Notre Dame Review, 2018, audio recording

Audio of “Fire Flowers”, RATTLE, 2014

Audio of 2017 Ledbury Poetry Competition Winners Event, “The fire escape, no longer weighed down”

“Water~Stone Review” interview, 2019

“You’re the deciduous forest”, Water~Stone Review, 2018

“The Secret Names of Objects”, Crannóg, 2018

3rd Prize in The 2017 Plough Prize’s Open Poem Competition, “Domestic Poxes”

“Our Bodies Conjugated in the Possessive Tense”, The Fenland Reed, 2018

2018 Aesthetica Creative Writing Award for “A poem written in my past life as a 15th-century Georgian monk” (which first appeared in “The Rialto”)

Interview featured on Tŷ Newydd’s website for the 2017 Ledbury Poetry Competition

“Pine Hills Review” interview, 2014, and “Please Hold the Doors”

“It’s just another day in a state-sponsored democracy”, Gemini Magazine, 2016

“El pasado convertido en fiera”, Prism Review, 2013

“Our Recurring List of Heartbreaks”, Southword Journal, 2016

“Reggie ordered a package of miniature people”, Dunes Review, 2017

“Something Love Resembles”, Coe Review, 2013

“7%”, Tampa Review, 2016

Two Poems, Word Fountain, 2017

“Pennsylvania”, Literal Latte, 2014

2 poems, Green Mountains Review, 2017

“Fjords” interview, 2014

“Cows and Daffodils”, The Believer, Issue Eighty-Five, November/ December 2011

“Fire Flowers”, RATTLE, Summer 2008

Link to my Poetry Chapbook “Secret Traits of Everyday Things”, on sale at Encircle Publications

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