Poetry Prize Short- and Longlist Honorees

It’s been our immense pleasure to read such talented entries this year, and we had a deeply difficult time choosing between them. Below are our short- and longlist honorees.

Poetry Prize Shortlist

No Way of Returning Home - Melanie Hyo-In Han

Sensor Hypothesis – Jen Karetnick

Chimera – LeeAnn Olivier

Semblance - Fleur Lyamuya Beaupert

Longlist

Blood, Bone, and Imagination – Rebecca Rogerson

Sobriety Crystal / Sobriety Cave – Isabel Sobral Campos

Held By Water – Sawnie Morris

An Indifferent Sky – Matt Hohner

Artarianica – Jessy Randall & Briget Heidmous

Life Cycles of the Lost – Elmaz Albinader

Pretty Yes, and Everything Else – Yeva Johnson

Promissorrows of the Capitalocenée – Knar Gavin

Bitter Bitter – Ginger Ko

The House of Bliss – Elizabeth Torres

To Punani Camp - Samodh Porawagamage

American Lonely – Alison Townsend

Muslim Wandering - Rukhsar Palla

Swerve – Tracey Knapp

Survival Exhibits – Megan Foley

Anchor to a Floating City – Gretchen Steele Pratt

After the Anthropocene - Jordan Wyberneit

A Body Is Not in a Hurry - Christa Fairbrother

Six – Rachel Zavecz

Camerawoman - Michelle McMillan-Holifield

I Think I'm Almost Ready to See the Ocean - Michael Mlekoday

House of Ferns - Ogochukwu Bibiana Ossai

Promise - Bern Mulvey

Book Content to Breathe Inside the Tree – Patrick Lawler

Holy Devastation – Leila Bilick

Travel – Kirk Wilson

The Vents – Craig Blais

Survival as an Act of Resistance - Jacquese Armstrong

Ozymandias Goes to Piggly Wiggly – Brady Alexander