Poetry

Articles in this category include any work of poetry first published by the magazine. A collection of up to three poems by the same author, all published in the same issue, may also be entered in this category.



2023 Winners and Finalists

  • 2023 GOLD | An Origin Story

    WRITER Mary Vlooswyk

    FreeFall

  • 2023 SILVER | Gull Lake / Calgary Pigeon Racing Club

    WRITER David Martin

    Funicular

  • con xin lỗi vi nhiều lúc con quên / i'm sorry that i often forget

    WRITER ViNa Nguyễn

    The Polyglot

  • Jarzębina / Mountain Ash

    WRITER Ewa Kolacz

    The Polyglot

  • Leaf Bats

    WRITER Tom Wayman

    FreeFall

  • Tesserae / Silt

    WRITER Gian Marco Visconti

    The Polyglot

  • Triptych of Poems

    WRITER Nina Berkhout

    The Prairie Journal

Previous Winners

  • 2022 GOLD | American Robin

    WRITER Kayleigh Cline

    FreeFall

  • 2022 SILVER | A Tapestry

    WRITER Brian Day

    FreeFall

  • 2021 GOLD | Broken Up

    WRITER Emily Riddle

    Funicular

  • 2021 SILVER | nehiyaw mîcimâpôy | indian stew

    WRITER Karrie Auger

    The Polyglot

  • 2020 GOLD | Lupo Mannaro

    WRITER Estlin McPhee EDITOR Matthew Stepanic

    Glass Buffalo

  • 2020 SILVER | Dream where I curate an exhibit in my childhood home la Jilava

    WRITER Adriana Onita EDITOR Matthew Stepanic

    Glass Buffalo

  • 2019 GOLD | Ponderose Pine (Pinus ponderosa)

    Jordan Mounteer

    Glass Buffalo

  • 2019 SILVER | Odyssea on the Train Pleads with Bartender

    Meredith Quartermain

    filling Station

  • 2018 GOLD | The Un-selfie Project

    Austen Lee

    Glass Buffalo

  • 2018 SILVER | Two Poems (Dear Healing Walk, Rhapsodic Trip)

    Jen Currin

    filling Station

  • 2017 GOLD | Three Poems

    Sean Howard

    filling Station

  • 2017 SILVER | Bear Skin Rug

    Margo LaPierre

    filling Station

  • 2016 GOLD | Confessional Poem

    Richard Harrison

    FreeFall

  • 2016 SILVER | Two Short Tales

    Christine Wiesenthal

    Eighteen Bridges

  • 2015 GOLD | But I'm no one

    Weyman Chan

    FreeFall

  • 2015 SILVER | Frog Lake

    Erika Luckert

    Glass Buffalo

  • 2014 GOLD | Proof

    Elizabeth Philips

    Eighteen Bridges

  • 2014 SILVER | this poem is about desire

    Beth Everest

    FreeFall

  • 2013 GOLD | Rothko via Muncie, Indiana

    Karen Solie

    Eighteen Bridges

  • 2013 SILVER | Poem for a Crescent Moon

    Richard Harrison

    FreeFall