Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Kirun Kapur
“Elegy Sequence for Charles Coe” by Carla Schwartz
Finalists:
“A Blues for Otis” by Michelle Courtney Berry
“On Cenotaphs and Friendship: Notes Toward Quantum Elegy” by Carolyn Oliver
“What Omma Never Taught” by Kim Sunée
Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Jason O’Toole
“Rough Marble” by Anastasia Vassos
Finalists:
“Between Two Quarries” by Meredith Bergmann
“The Secrets in the Silence” by Mary Christine Delea
“The Mudroom of My Grieving” by Robbie Gamble
E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by Wendy Drexler
Finalists:
“I Listen to Money Singing” by Dolores Hayden
“Places with Terrible Wi-fi” by Sonja Ringo
Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by Lloyd Schwartz
“In My Niece’s Garden” by Nora Bossong, translated by Jay Aelick
Finalists:
“The Flute Player” by René Guy Cadou, translated by J. Kates
“Genesis 20: A Poetic and Restorative Translation,” translated by Tzivia Gover
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Therese Gleason Carr
Towards a Retreat by Samaa Abdurraqib
Finalists:
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize, selected by Heather Treseler
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon
Finalists: