New England Poetry Club Prize-Winners’ Reading, 2023
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2023 Contest Poems
Monica Raymond, “Jersusalem”
Amy Lowell Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Doug Holder and Denise Provost Monica Raymond writes poems, plays, and sometimes prose from an old house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her magical realist … Read more
Lee Ann Roripaugh, #stringofbeads
Lee Ann Roripaugh (she/they) is a biracial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, mostly recently tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 (Milkweed Editions, 2019), which was named a “Best … Read more
Halyna Kruk, “In a Small Provincial Chinese Town,” translated from the Ukranian by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky
Photograph (L to R): Ali Kinsella, Halyna Kruk, Dzvinia Orlowsky Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates Halyna Kruk is an award-winning Ukrainian writer, translator, educator, and literary critic. … Read more
Carolyn Oliver, Dearling
Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, 2022; selected for the … Read more
Joyce Wilson, “The Octagonal Schoolhouse”
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Honorable Mention, selected by Danielle Legros Georges Joyce Wilson is editor of The Poetry Porch, a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997. Her poems have … Read more
Duan Qingqing, “Pear” translated from the Chinese by Paula J. Lambert
Honorable Mention, Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates Pear These days, the elders, even peers my own age, are leaving, one after another. You were peeling a pear when I … Read more
Judith Hoyer, “Alone on the Road Back to Seoul”
E. E. Cummings Prize Honorable Mention, selected by M.P. Carver Judith Hoyer is a Wayland, Massachusetts resident whose full-length poetry collection, Imagine That, was published by FutureCycle Press in February … Read more
Paula J. Lambert, “What Grows from a Heart Stopped Cold”
Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Doug Holder and Denise Provost Paula J. Lambert has published several collections of poetry includingThe Ghost of Every Feathered Thing (FutureCycle 2022) and How to … Read more
Paula J. Lambert, “What I Watch the Sea Tell the Seashore”
E. E. Cummings Prize Honorable Mention, selected by M.P. Carver Paula J. Lambert has published several collections of poetry includingThe Ghost of Every Feathered Thing (FutureCycle 2022) and How to … Read more