“What I love most about Fox’s poem is how touch is everywhere, and always transformative: the barber’s “spit / landing on my forehead changing me,” or the realization that, “if I touch him back, / everything about me will be true.” This is a stunning, graceful narrative, as accessible as it is transcendent.”

— Poetry judge Michael Mlekoday on “A Way with Those Hands,” the Honorable Mention poem for the 2022 Bertolt Clever Award and the 2022 Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Award