Prize Winners & Honorable Mentions 2023

Prize Winners & Honorable Mentions 2023

Samuel Washington Allen Prize, selected by Danielle Legros Georges

“Bahia” by Carolyne Wright

Honorable mentions: 

“I grow old… I grow old” by Vivian Shipley
“The Octagonal Schoolhouse” by Joyce Wilson

Amy Lowell Prize, selected by Doug Holder and Denise Provost

“What Grows From a Heart Stopped Cold” by Paula J. Lambert

Honorable mentions: 

“Bill Evans and My Brother’s Hands” by David Gordon

“Jerusalem” by Monica Raymond

E.E. Cummings Prize, selected by M.P. Carver

“Pat Schroeder Was Our Mother” Carla Schwartz

Honorable mentions:
“Alone on the road back to Seoul” by Judith Hoyer

“What I Watch the Sea Tell the Seashore” by Paula J. Lambert

Diana Der-Hovanessian Prize, selected by J. Kates

ANIMATE’M, ANIMA, M’ANIMAL by Enric Casasses, translated
from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem

Honorable mentions: 

“Pear” by Duan Qingqing, translated from the Chinese by Paula J. Lambert

“In a Small Provincial Chinese Town” by Halyna Kruk, translated from the Ukrainian
by Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky

Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize, selected by Daniel Barnum

Voz by Jennifer Jean

Honorable mentions:

Dearling by Carolyn Oliver 

#stringofbeads by Lee Ann Roripaugh

Finalists:

fist of wind by Nefertiti Asanti

Mirabilia by Gail Hanlon

Sandman by Huan He

Local Habitations by Mark Wacome Stevick 

Trail of Roots by Gail Thomas

Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize, selected by the NEPC Board

Winthropos by George Kalogeris

Honorable mention: Paradise by Victoria Redel

Finalists:

The Sliding Boat Our Bodies Made by Jennifer Barber

Casualty Reports by Martha Collins

Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz

the Colored page by Matthew E. Henry

People Once Real by Richard Hoffman

Sleeping As Fast As I Can by Richard Michelson

Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble by Carolyn Oliver

Aunt Bird by Yerra Sugarman

More Poems About Money by Daniel Wolff