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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.
Finalists
Triptych of Poems: Beautiful Hands, Peaches, and Sabrina
WRITER: Karli Woods
The Prairie Journal
Departure
WRITER: dee Hobsbawn-Smith
Freefall Magazine
Dark Water
WRITER: Bruce Hunter
Freefall Magazine
Making Peanut Butter Toast
WRITER: Gavin Doyle
Funicular
A Black Hand Revisits
WRITER: Bertrand Bickersteth
filling Station
Three Poems
WRITER: Omar Ramadan
EDITORS: Adriana Onita, Catalina Morales Velez, Ewa Kolacz, Maria Teodora Barbu, Tariq Malik
The Polyglot
Past Winners
Silver 2013 | Poem for a Crescent Moon
Richard Harrison
FreeFall
Gold 2013 | Rothko via Muncie, Indiana
Karen Solie
Eighteen Bridges
Silver 2014 | this poem is about desire
Beth Everest
FreeFall
Gold 2014 | Proof
Elizabeth Philips
Eighteen Bridges
Silver 2015 | Frog Lake
Erika Luckert
Glass Buffalo
Gold 2015 | But I'm no one
Weyman Chan
FreeFall
Silver 2016 | Two Short Tales
Christine Wiesenthal
Eighteen Bridges
Gold 2016 | Confessional Poem
Richard Harrison
FreeFall
Silver 2017 | Bear Skin Rug
Margo LaPierre
filling Station
Gold 2017 | Three Poems
Sean Howard
filling Station
Silver 2018 | Two Poems (Dear Healing Walk, Rhapsodic Trip)
filling Station
Gold 2018 | The Un-selfie Project
Austen Lee
Glass Buffalo
Silver 2019 | Odyssea on the Train Pleads with Bartender
Meredith Quartermain
filling Station
Gold 2019 | Ponderose Pine (Pinus ponderosa)
Jordan Mounteer
Glass Buffalo
Silver 2020 | Dream where I curate an exhibit in my childhood home la Jilava
WRITER: Adriana Onita
EDITOR: Matthew Stepanic
Glass Buffalo
Gold 2020 | Lupo Mannaro
WRITER: Estlin McPhee
EDITOR: Matthew Stepanic
Glass Buffalo
Silver 2021 | nehiyaw mîcimâpôy | indian stew
WRITER: Karrie Auger
The Polyglot
Gold 2021 | Broken Up
WRITER: Emily Riddle
Funicular
Silver 2022 | A Tapestry
WRITER: Brian Day
FreeFall
Gold 2022 | American Robin
WRITER : Kayleigh Cline
FreeFall
Silver 2023 | Gull Lake / Calgary Pigeon Racing Club