2022 Emerging Poet Prize: Winners & Finalists
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2022 Emerging Poet Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Safia Elhillo.
Contest Winner
Partition Homes
How many words do I / know for hunger? What is the nestling space /
between two countries / of conflict called?
Self-Portrait in Lust
I vulture myself when I touch you, /
my stomach its own feast, my tongue a prayer for a tongue.
Who Is This Grief For?
By K. Iver
There are so many gods wanting my soreness. / I can bruise my forehead bowing before so many statues.
2022 Previously Published Poem Prize: Winners & Finalists
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Restoration
“Goldmanite, / use what seeds you can to drape / this mountain in clouds, Muses / in the forest”
The Hollywood Glacier
By Maria Nazos
“how the body’s slow melting / is the only way / to open a hardened heart / the glacier you enter with dissolving”
Sand Flats, UT
By Emily Lawson
“but you held me down, just like this, / possessed, alien, godlike, looking at me, outside of / time—”
2021 Love & Eros Prize: Winners & Finalists
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2021 Love & Eros Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Kaveh Akbar.