Interview with Kimiko Hahn, Judge of the 2026 Nature Poetry Prize
“I am interested in toying with repetition and, as is obvious, repetition keeps our heart going, keeps us alive.”
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TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR SURGERY, HAVE YOU BEEN ON HORMONE THERAPY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS?
“5/ Getting on implied that / testosterone had a seat for me to sit upon, / was a place to rest. / Was possibly a waiting equine / already saddled up— / her brown nose breaking my heart.”
First Contact
“We are not god’s first children / after all. They are skin to skin, / the field in flux, the aura of earth.”
Brisbane River Rowing
By Vuong Pham
“Two branches reach toward each other. Golden whistlers sing / as if it were the first day of creation.”
Strange Attractor
“As the sun sets, the bright motes haze the sweetgrass and timothy, / like unshelled souls crowding a lie”
2026 Nature Poetry Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in celebrating these amazing nature poems! Winners were selected by Kimiko Hahn.
Kingdom Animalia
“Horses are known to sleep / while standing up, as if their whole life // is a probable war.”
Insect Thermometer
“Earth work. Scum in clay pots. The sun booms bass clarinet. A lemon sweats its silence on the / dirt.”
Relic, I cannot cut my way
By Tola Sylvan
“then i am standing outside / your love and it divides / into three neat tent flaps: / lily, lilac, orange.”