Winners and Finalists of the Emerging Poet Prize!
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the Emerging Poet Prize.
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view from the highway
“immodest / of a rural town displaying like that // its hill long”
Only 10 Days Left to Submit to the Spotlight Award!
The winner of this award will receive publication, $2000, and a unique opportunity to have themselves profiled across a quarter-page spread in Poets & Writers: bio, headshot, excerpt of work, and contact information for solicitation.
Our Pushcart Nominees of 2018
We’ve been honored to share new work by some tremendously good poets—here are our six nominees for the 2018 Pushcart anthology.
Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched
“There is a word for the fear of water, but not of drowning. Another / for the fear of darkness, but not how it hides a person’s face.”
Two Poems
“an event-horizon / of question marks // all the way to / non-identity”
Becoming Poet: Michael McFee
“To have a career as a poet is the opposite of darkness: what luck, to be a grown American man who has been able to keep writing poems, for so long.”
west harlem, july 2017
“black is everywhere but here it’s not a matter as much as it is a holy question”
Liberosis
“there’s a word for brown mothers and what they think is best: blanqueamiento”