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
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
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
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
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
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
Amy Lowell Prize Finalist, selected by Jason O’Toole (Author photo by Karen Hobbs) Mary Christine Delea is from Long Island, NY and now, after having lived all over the country, … Read more
Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize Winner, selected by Lloyd Schwartz From the German, “Im Garten der Nichte” Jay Aelick is a nonbinary writer and critic who makes up 1/2 of the SBU … Read more
Samuel Washington Allen Prize Winner, selected by Kirun Kapur Carla Schwartz’s poems have appeared in her collections, including Signs of Marriage. Learn more at https://carlapoet.com, or on social media @cb99videos. … Read more
Sheila Margaret Motton Prize Finalist, selected by Heather Treseler (Photo credit: Raisa Covaleski) Dzvinia Orlowsky is author of seven poetry collections published by Carnegie Mellon University Press, including Bad Harvest … Read more