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