Sydney Mayes is a poet from Denver, Colorado. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Poets.org, The Hopkins Review, ONLY POEMS, Gulf Coast Journal, Obsidian, Beloit Poetry Journal, Denver Quarterly and Prairie Schooner. In 2024 Mayes was selected by Roger Reeves as a finalist for the Furious Flower Prize, Marilyn Chin as a finalist for the Adrienne Rich Award and honored as the inaugural ONLY POEMS Poet of the Year. Two time Pushcart nominee and Executive Editor of Nashville Review, Mayes is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at Vanderbilt University

Other poems on the web by Sydney Mayes:
Five poems
"self-portrait as a young woman"
"Lula Bell"
Two poems

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