Finalists
Our fifty poets for the 2021 anthology appear below. Please join us in congratulating them!
- Mary Ardery, “Fourth Grade Soundtrack”
- Bryce Berkowitz, “Microwaving Sub Sandwiches in the Trailer”
- Kyle Carrero Lopez, “After Abolition”
- huiying b. chan, “How We Survived: 爺爺’s Pantoum (I)”
- Su Cho, “How to Say Water”
- Caitlin Cowan, “Miscarry”
- Chris Crowder, “On the Street Marked 'Dead End'”
- Marissa Davis, “Marketplace”
- Tarik Dobbs, “Dragphrasis: Alexis Mateo Calls Home the Troops with a Death Drop”
- Patrick James Errington, “Not an Elegy”
- April Freely, “Every Verb Is a Lesson”
- Augusta Funk, “Poem in My Mother’s Voice”
- Nicole Caruso Garcia, “Is This Your Cow?”
- Adam J. Gellings, “Second Person”
- Henry Goldkamp, “The Our Daddy”
- Boston Gordon, “Clinical Assessment of Gender Identity”
- Mandy Gutmann-Gonzalez, “Sarah Good’s Confession”
- Sadia Hassan, “A List of Places I Am [ ]”
- Jane Huffman, “Six Revisions”
- Katherine Hur, “Nineteen Sixty-Three: Year of the Rabbit”
- Zebulon Huset, “[Start at the Beginning]”
- Hannah Perrin King, “Transcript of My Mother's Sleeptalk: Chincoteague”
- Lauren Licona, “the first creation story i ever heard”
- Sharon Lin, “An Offering at the Altar”
- Nathan Lipps, “How to Believe”
- Aaron Magloire, “In Which I Travel to Alternate Dimensions in Search of Healing after Another Black Man Is Shot by Police”
- Kristina Martino, “All I Can Have Are Field Recordings of the Field”
- Hannah Matheson , “Daniel Johnson”
- Erin L. McCoy, “How a Lake Flash-Froze a Herd of Horses ”
- Nancy Miller Gomez, “Siren Song”
- Yvette R. Murray, “Strangeness3”
- Alicia Rebecca Myers, “Winter Solstice”
- Karisma Price, “My Phone Autocorrects 'Nigga' to 'Night'”
- Margaret Ray, “First, and Then, and Then”
- Remi Recchia, “Dead Name”
- Caitlin Roach, “Derivations”
- Micah Ruelle, “The Last Birthday Gift”
- Samyak Shertok, “No Rhododendron”
- Tyler Starks, “Walk It Off Octopus”
- Jessica Lynn Suchon, “Adultery”
- Jennifer Sutherland, “Positioning”
- Natalie Tombasco, “Nomenclature”
- Katelyn Botsford Tucker, “House for Sale”
- Michael VanCalbergh, “A Creation Myth”
- David Joez Villaverde, “Granizo, or Apologia Pro Lustro”
- Grace Wang, “Zodiac Year of the Lamb”
- JinJin Xu, “To Red Dust (II)”
- Jay Yencich, “Demonym”
- Gavin Yuan Gao, “Myth, or Luck as a Swan Boat”
- Rebecca Zweig, “This Poem Has a One Night Stand”
Updated Sept. 29, 2021.