The editors of America are pleased to present the winner of the 2017 Foley Poetry Award.

"Starknowing. He places his hand in hers,/ but she doesn’t recognize it. What was love once/ is beyond forgotten now, is never having known"

"But give me your silences,/ and I will wear them on my clothes,"

On the long trip home they stopped in Glanmore

When my father totaled the white Volvo

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!