Congratulations to all winners, honorable mentions, and finalists! And many thanks to everyone who entered. We’re grateful for your participation.
Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Enzo Silon Surin
Jennifer Garfield, “my own animal”
Honorable mentions:
Ivy Schweitzer, “Manchester” Carolyn Oliver, “Phantasia on Dvořák’s Poetic Tone Pictures, Op. 85 “
E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by Marcia Karp
Owen Lewis, “(from captivity) When living children”
Honorable mentions:
Sara Backer, “Shifting” Susan Donnelly, “Chattanooga Choo Choo” Mary Beth Hines, “Waking Uncle Edward”
Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by George Kalogeris
“The Girl Grown Up” by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated from the German by Donald Mace Williams
Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Sarah Audsley
J. Kates, “The Rainmaker”
Honorable mentions:
Wendy Drexler, “Gossip and Metaphysics” Laura Rodley, “A Matter of Physics” Quintin Collins, “Dying Laughing”
Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Jennifer Jean
Naomi Mulvihill, We All Might Be
Honorable mention:
Carolyn Oliver, Night Ocean
Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the NEPC Board
Heather Treseler, Auguries & Divinations
Honorable mentions:
Andrea Cohen, The Sorrow Apartments Daniel Tobin, The Mansions
Finalists:
Linda Carney-Goodrich, Dot Girl Rebecca Faulkner, Permit Me to Write My Own Ending Richard Fein, Dear Yiddish Matthew E. Henry, The Third Renunciation Halyna Kruk, translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Ali Kinsella, Lost in Living Gary Metras, Marble Dust Jeffrey Thomson, Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory