Past Contest Results

2022

 

Contest Judge: Ashley M. Jones

Winner:
Meghan Malachi, “We Moved Out of the Projects and into a Home” ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
Judith Mary Gee, “The Dead Don’t Eat Our Chickens” ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
Scudder H. Parker, “You Would Have Loved This” ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
Caroline Parkman Barr, “Venus De Milo with Drawers Moves Out of the Malibu Dreamhouse”
Philip West, “A Rough Understanding of the Cosmos”
Brittany Mishra, “In the Mortgage of Desire”
Ana Cagnoni, "reins"

2021

 

Contest Judge: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Winner:
Dean Gessie, “diary of a dead eel boy” ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
Shannon Pulusam, “it takes 3 minutes to steep green tea” ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
donia salem harhoor, “Tapedum Lucidum” ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
Matthew Brailas, “Elegy”
Patricia Goa, “Burning Fake Money”
Ani Tuzman, “Orange Stars”
Allie Hoback, "Pink Soup"
Gabriel Jesiolowski, "Entry for an Inverted Flower"

2020

 

Contest Judge: Austin Smith

Winner:
David Groff, “Disbelieving These Deaths, I Go to Sit by Lake Hebron” ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
Todd Copeland, “Wonders of the World” ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
Erica Bodwell, “Field Notes: To Excavate Beyond Despair” ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
Kelsey Taylor, “You Can Have It All”
Cody Smith, “In the Exhaust of An Outboard Motor, I Talk to Myself and to Grandpa”
Gabriel Dozal, “Dear Crosser, Did You Know That You’re Not Your Body”

2019

 

Contest Judge: Rachel Webster

Winner:
Mirande Bissell, “The Mammoth Steppe” ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
Abigail McFee, “I Thought I Was the Scream That Woke Me” ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
Alex Chertok, “After 6 Weeks Apart” ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
Mitchell Untch, “Burning the Field”
Harry Bauld, “Arizona”
Andrea Deeken, “Evolution”
Robin Rosen Chang, “Hoodoos”

2018

 

Contest Judge: Li-Young Lee

Winner:
Mark Svenvold, “Immigration Algorithm (Application Form D (3) b (1) a)” ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
David Wright, “There Is Another Book” ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
Chad Foret, “That Which Shines” ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
Ed Frankel, “Singing Lullabies in Dangerous Places”
Timothy McBride, “Soudure”
Lan Duong, “In This House”

2017

 

Contest Judge: Ewa Chrusciel

Winner:
Kelly Michels, “Elegy for the Poppy” ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
Greg Emilio, “For Whenever You Eat This” ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
Erika Goodrich, “Proof of Disappearing” ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
John Sibley Williams, “Othering”
Stephanie Kartalopolous, “Dispatches from a Land”
Marcia Loughran, “Vespers”
Kelly Michels, “Communion with an Olive”
Greg Emilio, “Bethesda”

2016

 

Contest Judge: GC Waldrep

Winner:
Nancy Hewitt, "The Secret of White" ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
Leila Chatti, "Ramadan Aubade" ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
Jennie Maria Malboeuf, "Christ is a Great Blue Heron" ($100)

Honorable Mention:
Leila Chatti, "Autumn Aubade with Pigeons"

2015

 

Contest Judge: Rachel Zucker (http://www.rachelzucker.net)

Winner:
Julie Marie Wade, "Source Amnesia" ($1000)

1st Runner Up:
Justin Hunt, "Nocturne" ($100)

2nd Runner Up:
Jacqueline Kolosov, "Terra" ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
Emily Rose Cole, "Premonition"
Susan Charkes, "There Are Rumors"
Jacqueline Kolosov, "March Odes"
Lucy Ricciardi, "All of the Above"

2014

 

Contest Judge: Joshua Corey

Winner:
Emma Bolden, “It was no more predictable” ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
Jonathan Soen, “Fragments from a Book” ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
Lynne Knight, “The Gospel of Infinity” ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
Emma Bolden, “My little apparition, my little ghost”
Kathryn A Hindenlang, “This is the Nature”
Tori Grant Welhouse, “mor/bid”
Carine Topal, “Bone Jar: The Oven {An Elegy}”
Greg Emilio, “Sex”

2013

 

Contest Judge: Juliana Spahr

Winner:
Jesse Nissim, “Fire” ($1000)

1st Runner-Up:
Dante Di Stefano, “Praying to Ares After Listening to My Father's Voice Message” ($100)

2nd Runner-Up:
Carol Matos, “Goodbye Charlie” ($100)

Honorable Mentions:
Leland James, “A Brief History of the Electric Chair”
Susan Charkes, “Conveyance”
Michael Sukach, “Poetry Critic: a Found Pastoral”
Arne Weingart, “Parenthetical”