Finalists

Our fifty poets for the 2022 anthology appear below. Please join us in congratulating them!

  • Sarah Ghazal Ali, “Parable of Flies”
  • Kenzie Allen, “Quiet as Thunderbolts”
  • Amy M. Alvarez, “Hadeology”
  • Arao Ameny, “The Mothers”
  • Claressinka Anderson, “Epigraph”
  • Colin Bailes, “Bluegrass”
  • Caleb Braun, “Self-Portrait as Yard Boy”
  • Kōan Brink, “Self-Portrait as Lake”
  • Madeleine Cravens, “Creation Myth”
  • Patricia Davis-Muffett, “On Looking Away”
  • Steven Espada Dawson, “Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Brother’s Heart”
  • Fay Dillof, “Little Infinites”
  • Kinsale Drake, “Blacklist Me”
  • Sara Elkamel, “In This Town We Rescue Cats”
  • Jalen Eutsey, “West Perrine Park (The Big Park)”
  • Lupita Eyde-Tucker, “Eucalyptus”
  • Katie Farris, “Why Write Love Poetry in a Burning World”
  • J. Bruce Fuller, “They Said”
  • Katherine Gaffney, “Like a Salmon (Or Fool in a Blue House)”
  • Benjamin Goldberg , “Fugue with Allegory & Intake Room”
  • Maria Gray, “Where Were You when Mac Miller Died”
  • Justin Groppuso-Cook, “How I Learned to Drink Oni, the Bitter Vine of Knowledge”
  • Kaleem Hawa, “Haifa is a Punk Rocker”
  • Abriana Jetté, “Thinking of Instinct”
  • Kuhu Joshi, “Raag Desh”
  • Ashley Keyser, “Eating the Siren”
  • Willie Lee Kinard III, “A Tangle of Gorgons”
  • Peter LaBerge, “Sight of Love”
  • Suzanne Langlois, “Denouement”
  • Kent Leatham, “Blueprint”
  • Esther Lin, “Habit”
  • Jennifer Loyd, “I Want to Tell Rachel Carson about Centralia, Pennsylvania, and Twenty-Four-Hour Gas Stations”
  • Grace MacNair, “Necessity Is the Mother of Invention”
  • james mckenna, “Long”
  • Madeleine Mori, “Tachistoscope”
  • M.A. Nicholson, “Dandies, Wilde”
  • Alixen Pham, “The Burden of Translation”
  • T. R. Poulson, “Birds Never Nest Here”
  • Gaia Rajan, “I Tried Everything”
  • Jacob Anthony Ramírez, “The Lives of Jazz Fathers”
  • Cyndie Randall, “J”
  • Cai Rodrigues-Sherley, “It Took A Long Time”
  • Anny Tang, “My Mother”
  • Wyeth Thomas, “The Heir of All Knowing is Forgetting”
  • Brandon Thurman, “New Moon Ceremony”
  • Kieron Walquist, “You, Me, Frank Hayes, Sweet Kiss”
  • Ross White, “Mule”
  • David Winter, “Lucky Jew”
  • Eric Yip, “Fricatives”
  • Mariya Zilberman, “Yanka Kupala Street”

Updated Sept. 24, 2022