Monica Youn
In Past Winners>2017GOLDACREWe have seen claims that Twinkies…aren't baked, the sponge cake instead being 'a pure chemical reaction' involving something that 'foams up'; the deception is made...
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In Past Winners>2017SILK NOR SAY I could be quiet when asked. How quiet? No one asked. I fell into a thicket of bad calls. I knotted a delicate serge about my neck. Wind battled heat again. Whatever...
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In Past Winners>2017Ganymede A man trades his son for horses. That's the version I prefer. I like The safety of it, no one at fault, Everyone rewarded. God gets The boy. The boy becomes...
View ArticleVincent Toro
In Past Winners>2017GUANÍN This island like a basket of laundry accidentally bleached. This island of moonshine and conch shells, of open air bars with signs above the register that read All...
View ArticleMolly Spencer
In Past Winners>2018INTERIOR WITH A WOMAN PEELING ORANGES, SNAPPING BEANSAs Aleppo fell, December 2016 1.They are not in season. Nothing isin season. It's December. The oranges I couldn't resistat...
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In Past Winners>2018Mis/conception All day the blood drips from me, the body's burp and slick of a woman overcome by her own uterus, paranoid panty checks and from the bowl always the same mucous...
View ArticleBrian Tierney
In Past Winners>2018All Stars Are Lights, Not All Lights Are Stars What's next, I see it. Balancing there like a melonon the point of a stick distracting bears, soon, no one will remember,save...
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Sarah Gridley
In Past Winners>2018THE DEPLETIONS My thoughts are all a case of knives.—George HerbertÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂIn the middle of the night I find myself in a...
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In Past Winners>2018The Newspapers How they tumbled down the snow-filled streets, how they slept in battered vending boxes and hung from dowels in the public library. How my father kept the...
View ArticleElizabeth Knapp
In Past Winners>2018Fourth of July In America, we like our flags fried and rolled in powdered sugar, which is why fireworks always remind usÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ of bombs, the shock and awe of a mighty nation....
View ArticleEmily Tian
In Past Winners>2018Motorcycle Poem Where you think this will go— Son in a black leather jacket revving the engine to represent one last door clanging shut against all the shits he used to give. A...
View ArticleEve L. Ewing
In Past Winners>2018what I mean when I say I'm sharpening my oyster knife I mean I'm here to eat up all the ocean you thought was yours. I mean I brought my own quarter of a lemon, tart and full of...
View ArticleJennifer Chang
In Past Winners>2018A Horse Named Never At the stables, each stall was labeled with a name. Biscuit stood aloof—I faced always, invariably, his clockwork tail. Crab knew the salt lick too well....
View ArticleAnna Rabinowitz Prize
Deadline: October 1, to December 22, 2018 (postmark date). The Anna Rabinowitz Prize is awarded to poets and their collaborators for venturesome, interdisciplinary work made in the previous year and...
View ArticleAri Banias
In Past Winners>2019ORACLE I was wrong it isn't suffering that's easy pleasure that's difficult How is it I have been living this way holding my piss a mirror scuffed by distant talk, secretly livid...
View ArticleAri Banias
In Past Winners>2019CURRICULUMView with a cathedral in it, sooty. Fountain with the face of a merman about to spit water through chipped lower lip but holding it in. Another postcard rack. Another...
View ArticleKelli Russell Agodon
In Past Winners>2019At Times My Body Leans Toward LossYou don't remember seeing the deer give birth on the highway, so when I said, I worry about thingsI can't control, you told me the pitchfork I...
View ArticleSarah Gridley
In Past Winners>2019HOUSEWORK A deer that falls no longer scatters. A bee is filling in the ribs. The leaves? Become the apron's detail work. Her eyesight changes in the woods.
View ArticleNancy Chen Long
In Past Winners>2019Interstice Until a chemical or electrical charge bridges a gapbetween neurons, we are obliviousof our seventh birthday. Our memory is floodedwith holes, pocked like cotton...
View ArticleCecily Parks
In Past Winners>2019The Rio Grande Now is the summer the Rio Grande will remember as the summer the children were taken from fathers and mothers who brought them to the Rio Grande The law of drought...
View ArticleAnna Maria Hong
In Past Winners>2019THE GLASS AGE Every age an age of glass: A slipper shoes the foot, takes giant steps of tock and tick, a cone blown, known gone, glass is fashioned, metal spun to color, mineral...
View ArticleVitoria Perez
In Past Winners>2019Dar Muharram My mother doused herself in pale blue cloth and lighter fluid.Inch by inch, she covered her flesh and tightened her shroud;her eyes screamed regret as soon as her...
View ArticleG.C. Waldrep
In Past Winners>2019UNTITLED (DRONE POEM)The general grief possesses us, a desert music. And the spirit of the frontier? Pause and remember the day we struck the movie set, winter's wet planks. You...
View ArticleSara Henning
In Past Winners>2019ONCE, I PRAYED IN THE WATER Lake Hanson, South Dakota Blessed be the good-time girl thighs-deep in a striped inner tube cattail fronds & cigarette butts lush...
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