top of page

Hole In The Head Review

A Biannual Journal of Poetry

Echoes of Casablanca, María DeGuzmán

Spring 2026

Note from the Editor:
Mike Bove

Note from the Prose Poetry Editor:
Jefferson Navicky

The 2025 Charles Simic Poetry Prize
judged by Bill Schulz:

Winner: Olivia Jacobson

Photograph of My Father, Age Seven

Runner-Up: Mary Buchinger

Runner-Up: Tricia Knoll

Editor's Choice: Joanna Young

Finalists:

Aaron Fischer

Fatherland, Etc.

Christopher Volpe

A Tree is an Example

George Burns

Katabasis for Semele

Hope Jordan

To Measure the Earth

Mary Beth Hines

Cape Hedge, September

Patrick Meeds

Elevator Etiquette

Rose Jenny

Poems:

Woman Seated in the Temple of the Cats, María DeGuzmán

Abby Murray

In Praise of Plastic Flowers

Alice Haines

Alicia Wright

Boy's Guide to Pyrotechnics

Aubrey Yarbrough

Poem Panting Like a Deer for Water

Betty Stanton

Anatomy of Grief

Elizabeth Switaj

Gus Peterson

Working Out Again

J.I. Kleinberg

and small birds

Jonathan Memmert

Joseph Cooper

The Elephant Seal

Mara Lee Grayson

On the Actor or His Magnificent Face

Mario Duarte

Outside Garcia's Panes

Matthew Zhao

Melissa McKinstry

Again, Dragging a Chair in Front of the Fireplace,

Merridawn Duckler

Directions to Our House

Onna Solomon

Rebecca Brock

I Dream of Crows and Then I Try to Sing Myself to Sleep

Rebecca Watkins

Richard Foerster

Self-portrait as Postage Stamp

Robert McDonald

t love smith

Pretty Handsome

bottom of page