Contest Results
2022
PRIZE WINNER:
A Brief Campaign of Sting and Sweet by Laura Amsel
2021
Prize Winner:
Reading Szymborska in a Time of Plague by Joan Baranow
FINALISTs:
First Time, Every Time by Lisa Caloro
Wildlife by Miranda Beeson
2020
Contest suspended during the pandemic
2019
Prize Winner:
The Return of the Naked Man by Robert Tremmel
FINALISTs:
All These Hungers by Rick Mulkey
Night Blue by Margaret Young
SEMI-FINALISTs:
Shellback by Jeanne-Marie Osterman
Mostly Human by Sheila Squillante
Perigee by Diane Kerr
The Art of Falling by Julia Wendell
Judas Salt by John Blair
Passiflora by Kathy Davis
Omnidawn by Soledad Caballero
Transit of Mercury by Helen Wickes
Suburbia: Poems by Jacob M. Appel
In the Zero of Sky by Tamra Plotnick
2018
Prize Winner:
Speaking Parts by Beth Ruscio
FINALISTs:
Waxing the Dents by Daniel Edward Moore
After Running Off a Cliff (But Before Looking Down) by R. Wood Lynn
2017
Prize Winner:
Touring the Shadow Factory by Gary Stein
FINALIST:
American Mythology by Raphael Kosek
2016
Prize Winner:
Assisted Living by Erin Murphy
Finalists:
Credo by Steve McDonald
Secret Formulas & Techniques of the Masters by Jackie Craven
Runners-Up:
Thresholds by Matt Hohner
A Cage To Welcome by Shana Youngdahl
Mud Song by Terry Ann Thaxton
Cathedral of Dust by Judson Simmons
Based on a True Story by Elizabeth Gold
Trashcan Diagnosis by Cory McClell
2015
Prize Winner:
Lauren Bacall Shares a Limousine by Susan J. Erickson
Finalists:
Having and Keeping by David Watts
Ambushing Water by Danielle Hanson
2014
Prize Winner:
Battle Sleep by Shannon Tate Jonas
Finalists:
Mudlick by Amy Wright (published as Cracker Sonnets)
Things Seen by Joseph Stanton
2013
Prize Winner:
Household Inventory by Connie Jordan Green
Finalists:
A Meal Like That by Albert Garcia
Practice by Richard M. Berlin
Honorable Mentions:
Out of the Flinty Rock by John Warner Smith
Running Counterclockwise by Alarie Tennille
The Tendency of Bodies to Remain at Rest by Bob Watts
2012
Prize Winner:
The Alp at the End of My Street by Gary Leising
Finalists:
The Word in Edgewise by Sean M. Conrey
Just Drive by Robert Cooperman
2011
Prize Winner:
Bad Behavior by Michael Steffen
Finalists:
Rising to the Rim by Carol Tyx
Tracing the Lines by Susanna Lang
2010
Prize Winner:
Damnatio Memoriae by Michael Meyerhofer
Finalists:
Lotus Buffet by Rupert Fike
Two-Star General by Grey Held
Etch and Blur by Jamie Thomas
Chosen by Toni Thomas
Mud Cakes by Jason Schossler(scheduled for publication elsewhere)