In the Good Years, by Laura Cresté
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Finalist, selected by Heather Treseler Laura Cresté is the author of In the Good Years (Four Way Books, 2025) and You Should Feel Bad, winner of … Read more
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, by V. Penelope Pelizzon
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Winner, selected by Heather Treseler (Photo credit: T. Deaton) V. Penelope Pelizzon is a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry. Her recent book, A Gaze Hound That … Read more
Towards a Retreat, by Samaa Abdurraqib
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize Winner, selected by Therese Gleason Carr Samaa Abdurraqib, PhD (she/her) is based in Wabanaki Territory (Maine). She’s the editor of From Root to Seed: Black, Brown, and … Read more
“The Flute Player” by René Guy Cadou, translated by J. Kates
Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize Finalist, selected by Lloyd Schwartz From the French, “Le joueur de flute” J. Kates is a minor poet, a literary translator and the president and co-director of … Read more
“Between Two Quarries” by Meredith Bergmann
Amy Lowell Prize Finalist, selected by Jason O’Toole Meredith Bergmann is an award-winning sculptor whose public monuments can be seen in New York, Boston and beyond. She was poetry editor of American … Read more
Slow Burn by Evan Wang
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Finalist, selected by Therese Gleason Carr Evan Wang (王潇) was the 9th National Youth Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of Slow Burn, which made history … Read more
“On Cenotaphs and Friendship: Notes Toward Quantum Elegy” by Carolyn Oliver
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Finalist, selected by Kirun Kapur (Author photograph by Benjamin Oliver) Carolyn Oliver is the author of Whale Garden (forthcoming from River River Books in 2027), The Alcestis Machine (Acre, 2024), … Read more
“Rough Marble” by Anastasia Vassos
Amy Lowell Prize Winner, selected by Jason O’Toole The poems of Anastasia Vassos have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. She is … Read more
“What Omma Never Taught” by Kim Sunée
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Finalist, selected by Kirun Kapur Kim Sunée is the author of the bestselling memoir, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home, which has been … Read more
“Chess” by Lee Pelletier
E.E. Cummings Prize Winner, selected by Wendy Drexler Lee Pelletier is a poet originally from CT who now lives in Washington, D.C. She has been published in South Florida Poetry Journal, Frontier … Read more