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