Finalists

Our fifty poets for the 2024 anthology appear below. Please join us in congratulating them!

  • Dominique Ahkong, “Witch of the East”
  • Audrey Rose, “Variations on the Electric Slide”
  • Sherah Bloor, “The Gathering”
  • Marietta Brill, “Sunflower Mandala”
  • Jiordan Castle, “Sometimes I Want to Move to the Suburbs”
  • River 瑩瑩 Dandelion, “Ghazal Remix for Holy Summers”
  • Lachlan Chu, “American Love Song”
  • Lauren Crawford, “Galveston”
  • Bertha Isabel Crombet, “Big Bang”
  • Emma DePanise, “Waterspout”
  • Isabella DeSendi, “My Death Urge is Strong (Self-Portrait at Thirty)”
  • Gabriel Fine, “Brain Scan”
  • M.K. Foster, “Of the lights that goe before you”
  • Dewey Fox, “Till You See a Street You Know”
  • Rob Greene, “To the Young Second Lieutenant Standing Behind Me in Line”
  • Arielle Hebert, “Extra Life”
  • Perry Janes, “Ode to the Landmark Main Art Theater, Since Demolished, in Royal Oak, Michigan”
  • Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong, “Last Spring”
  • Karan Kapoor, “My Father Could’ve Been a Bullet if He Found a Pistol”
  • Mickie Kennedy, “Blue Collar”
  • Chris Ketchum, “Fentanyl”
  • Divyasri Krishnan, “Meditations in the Hottest Summer on Record”
  • Mary H. Lee, “Good morning, I am forgetting”
  • Perry Levitch, “Leporiform”
  • Shannan Mann, “A Bouquet of Lotuses for Your Birthday”
  • Michael Mark, “Devotion”
  • Olivia McClure, “Something about Me”
  • Nathan Metz, “Fragment Sonnet”
  • Mia Nakaji Monnier, “Where I'm From”
  • Rachel Morgan, “Motherless Afternoon”
  • Hannah Lee Nahar, “Bricolage”
  • Andrew Navarro, “Heroes, Villains, Clouds”
  • Fiker Girma, “Wishlist”
  • Michael O'Ryan, “Wyoming, February”
  • Casey Patrick, “Fern”
  • Sharon Pretti, “Water Line”
  • Phil SaintDenisSanchez, “land back on Tchoupitoulas (no one else can bring my music)”
  • Lis Sanchez, “Carla Medina de Cienfuegos, August 23, 1899*. Dark Rags Wing Down”
  • Daniel Schonning, “That They Are There”
  • Melissa Holm Shoemake, “Self-Portrait in Haint Blue”
  • Jamie L. Smith, “In the Space Between Pain ”
  • Jaz Sufi, “Magic Trick”
  • Avia Tadmor, “My Grandfather Delivers a Survivor’s Testimony at Yad Vashem but Does Not Say Auschwitz”
  • Ashley Wang, “God and I Play Russian Roulette ”
  • Danielle Weeks, “Tun State”
  • Ann Weil, “Moon Child”
  • Dylan Weir, “Bambi”
  • AJ White, “Full Disclosure”
  • Carson Wolfe, “While Wishing She Was Dancing to Kate Bush”
  • Andrew Chi Keong Yim, “On Day One, I Quit”

Updated Sept. 20, 2024