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