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Ninth Letter is pleased to present Anne Menasché’s poem “My Father Cooks My Mother Breakfast,” the 2024 Regeneration Honorable Mention selected by Stephanie Anderson.

Anne Menasché grew up in New York’s Hudson Valley, and she is now based in Upstate New York, after spending several years working in Washington, D.C. Her poetry has appeared in publications including ballast, Bicoastal Review, Frontier Poetry, River Heron Review and storySouth.  

Guest Judge: Stephanie Anderson is the author of the award-winning One Size Fits None: A Farm Girl’s Search for the Promise of Regenerative Agriculture as well as From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture (The New Press). Her essays and short stories have appeared in outlets such as The Rumpus, TriQuarterly, Flyway, Ninth Letter, The Chronicle Review, and many others. She lives in South Florida, where she serves as assistant professor of creative nonfiction at Florida Atlantic University.

Volume 22, Issue 01 – Now in Print

Change. Movement. Evolution. The poems, stories, and essays in Volume 22, Issue 01 of Ninth Letter are working, in unique ways, around these themes. It’s curious, how themes arise as we choose work. It isn’t until after all pieces have been selected that we really notice how they are in conversation. Or perhaps it isn’t curious at all; rather, the natural response to writers’ observant nature in this time of rapid reality shifts. From nano to macro, the writers in this issue consider the elements or results of change, and sometimes, how despite the change, things remain the same.

Featuring work from Lisa Bass, Adam Clay, Patrick Crerand, Timothy DeMay, Kathy Fagan, C. Francis Fisher, Otis Fuqua, Regan Green, Kristen Holt-Browning, Junmoke James, Kristi Maxwell, Rose McLarney, Maggie Nipps, Michael O’Ryan, Meghan E. O’Toole, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Emily Skaja, Ellen Skirvin, Elizabeth Torres, Casey Walker, and Devon Walker-Figueroa.