Meet the 2024 National Poetry Series Competition Winners Posted in: News
The National Poetry Series congratulates the five winners of the 2024 National Poetry Series Competition:
Games for Children by Keith Wilson
Chosen by Rosalie Moffett for Milkweed Editions
82nd Division by D.M. Aderibigbe
Chosen by Colin Channer for Akashic Books
Blue Loop by AJ White
Chosen by Chelsea Dingman for University of Georgia Press
Our Hands Hold Violence by Kieron Walquist
Chosen by Brenda Hillman for Beacon Press
Shade is a Place by MaKshya Tolbert
Chosen by Maggie Millner for Penguin
… And congratulations also to our finalists!
Laura Joyce-Hubbard, Over the Half-Bright World
Sandra Kasturi, Snake Handling for Beginners
Kelly Sawin, This Most Mortal Garden
regan good, The Blood Ribbon
Vi Khi Nao, REVERSE ABYSS
Paige Webb, Sundry Theatres
Emily Pittinos, A Girl Ago
Katelin Kelly, Tuck
Samuel Cheney, BELIEVERS
Melanie Tafejian, Happiness Index
Benjamin Paloff, Human Trials
Matthew Zhao, King of Song
Samyak Shertok, Operation Rhododendron
Dana Roeser, I WAKE TO A LIFE IN WHICH THE BEDS KEEP MOVING
Diana Keren, Lee Dramedy
Lydia Abedeen, Half Wife
Jerry Lieblich, otherwise, without
Francisco Marquez, Losing My Language
Elizabeth Hutton, I Didn’t Know How Plastic
Dan Kraines, Strap
Asa Drake, Maybe the Body
Sebastien Butler, Viscera
Arden Levine, Spoke
Christine Byrne, The Cuckoo’s Nursemaid
Jen Karetnick, Sensor Hypothesis
Bruce Bond, Blackbird
Charlie Clark, Devil Music
Anne-Marie Thompson, Is
Edward Salem, Intifadas
Chris Watkins, The Drag Gospel of Queer Jesus
Preeti Parikh, Integumentary
Laura Romeyn, HIDES
Renee Emerson, Work of Breathing
Abigail Dembo, The Lamp and Other Sources of Shadow
Amorak Hue,y Mouth
JC Andrews, Of an Ilk
Sonia Greenfield, Blade of Hunger
Jaimee Hills, High Dive
Julie Marie Wade, This Is Jeopardy!
Mario Chard, Baffle Gate
Daniel Moysaenko, Overtakelessness
Steve Castro, Conejo y Gallo
Ian-Khara Ellasante, stay girl: don’t
Stephanie Glazier, Of Fish & Country
Rodrigo Toscano, Whitman. Cannonball. Puebla.
Kent Shaw, Gigantic
Katie Chaple, How clearly you can see some nights
Kimberly Grey, BEWILDER MEANT
Korey Hurni, Another Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Jacqueline Berger, Left at the Ruin
Michelle Alexander, cray
Elaine Bleakney, TAKE THE EXIT THEN EXIT
Christopher Bakken, THEOLOGOS
Leanna Petronella, The Mermaid of Mama Georgina
A.C. Qian, Vinegar Ceremony