We are pleased to announce the winners, finalists, and longlist for the 2023 Previously Published Poem Prize! Please join us in congratulating these brilliant poets. Deep gratitude to all who shared their work with us. The winning poems were selected by Palette editors and will be published in April.
“The chambers of my heart are / infinite and many. / I fasten us beyond the last breath / and exempt us from death.”
By Summer Farah
In Poetry Double Features, poet, critic, and editor Summer Farah moves away from the capitalistic language of “comparative titles” and instead towards the indulgence possible in considering two poetry collections that complement each other. The books paired here are not necessarily similar, but Farah asks: what language, pleasure, or wonder might be uncovered when they are read together? Poetry Double Features is in praise of the beautiful and unruly process of reading, synthesizing, and parsing out connective threads.
By Samia Saliba
“i fact check this & only some of it is true i will not say which parts. i prefer it this way.”
“I stood silent I fell into that maw / of water blackened with air my own”
This March, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems about eating and being eaten.
“hands / that penned epics, chiseled limestone, callused / looping yarn around warp–we are / hyperbolic in recognition,”
“The puddles of my eyes ripen / into two giant green apples. Behind them / there’s a font where I met my reflection,”
By Ian Cappelli
“The newly bereaved / are attached to / becoming bereft. Pressing your / thumb into the wall, / new bombardment.”