Seven-time Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee Jennifer Hambrick is the author of four poetry collections: a silence or two (Red Moon Press), winner of a 2025 Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America; In the High Weeds (NFSPS Press), winner of the Stevens Prize from the National Federation of State Poetry Societies; Joyride (Red Moon Press), winner of the Marianne Bluger Book Award; and Unscathed (NightBallet Press). Hambrick has been featured in American Life in Poetry and on Rattlecast, and is a frequent recipient of poetry commissions, many for interdisciplinary collaborations. Hambrick’s poems appear in Rattle, The Columbia Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Santa Clara Review, Maryland Literary Review, San Pedro River Review, POEM, Modern Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online, and in numerous other journals and invited anthologies. Awards and prizes include the Sheila-Na-Gig Press Poetry Prize, First Prize in the Haiku Society of America's Haibun Award Competition, First Prize in the Martin Lucas Haiku Award Competition (U.K.), four First Place awards and a Special Award in the inaugural Heliosparrow Haiku Frontier Awards for avant-garde haiku and short poetry, and many others. A classical musician, public radio broadcaster, multimedia producer, and cultural journalist, Jennifer Hambrick is often presented in interdisciplinary collaborations. She lives in Columbus, Ohio. jenniferhambrick.com

Nightrain

Nightrain after Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days We missed the sunsetand now we are lying in this bedthe lights offeverything closed in darknessmarking the death of dayof wakefulness, obscuringthe colors of the world. I notice the rain tendering the leaves—dropping sometimes in needleslight and slender, sometimeslike paint splotching a tarp, rotund,worldly. Drops fall in disheveled timetaps …

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