Finalists

Our fifty poets for the 2023 anthology appear below. Please join us in congratulating them!

  • Helene Achanzar, "O My Worry, I Reach for Your Hand"
  • Miriam Alex, "On the Reproduction of Images"
  • Emily Alexander, "Who I Am"
  • Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio, "Index of Me"
  • Gauri Awasthi, "Partition Story "
  • Lina Herman, "Before We Rushed Our Daughter to the Hospital"
  • nicole v basta, "beside her unearthing"
  • Tina Blade, "Vine Maple"
  • Anthony Borruso, "Murphy's Law"
  • Christine Byrne, "Cups"
  • Asia Calcagno, "Searching Every One of My Former Ten Addresses on Google Maps"
  • Ian Cappelli, "The Frame of the Stolen Painting"
  • Joseph R. Chaney, "Riches"
  • Juliana Chang, "The Most Taiwanese Thing about Me"
  • Laura Cresté, "Egg Party"
  • Poonam Dhir, "Drawing from Old Currents"
  • Maria Esquinca, "Death Fragments: On Loving My Mother"
  • Ira Goga, "Faggots"
  • Will Goodwin, "The Music in My Airpods Is Non-Diegetic"
  • Regan Green, "On Shaving"
  • Julian Guy, "I Wake Up and the House is On Fire"
  • Marcy Rae Henry, "Last Payphone in Times Square"
  • Parker Hobson, "All Snakes’ Day"
  • Jackson Holbert, "After C.D. Wright"
  • Jasmine Khaliq, "Ghazal for my Father"
  • Anthony Thomas Lombardi, "Speed Trap Town"
  • Alejandro Lucero, "Busted Pandemic Sonnet for My Dead Dad "
  • Nick Martino, "Polaroid: Prison Visit"
  • Melissa McKinstry, "Showering My Son"
  • Alicia Rebecca Myers, "G-Day"
  • Greg Nicholl, "Sage"
  • Sam Niven, "Solstice Poem"
  • Martha Paz-Soldan, "Carmen Amaya"
  • antmen pimentel mendoza, "Self-Portrait in a Canadian Tuxedo on the Road to St. George, Utah"
  • Pablo Piñero Stillmann, "Present"
  • Annie P. Quigley, "Portrait with My Two Grandmothers"
  • Meg Reynolds, "Discipline"
  • Monica Rico, "Five Things Borrowed"
  • Caitlin Roach, "Washington"
  • Dennison Ty Schultz, "Today I’m Not Thinking about Gender So"
  • Samyak Shertok, "Love in a Time of Revolution"
  • Aurora Shimshak, "Pill Abortion"
  • Hannah Smith, "Armadillo"
  • Shirley Stephenson, "Calibrate"
  • Matthew Tuckner, "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
  • Dāshaun Washington, "A Fairy Tale of Blackboyhood"
  • Alice White, "Multiple Choice"
  • Jim Whiteside, "Caught the Bug"
  • Lizabeth Yandel, "Grocery Store, 12 a.m."
  • Nicholas Yingling, "The Anorexics Dream of Flight"

Updated Sept. 22, 2023