Nominees by Year
2024
A House So Vast by Adrienne Brock
Seeing It Through by Allegra Solomon
In Our Nature by Sunni Brown Wilkinson
Reading Shackleton During My Husband’s Cancer Treatment by Michele Bombardier
The Museum of Death by Sara Fetherolf
If I’m Honest by Jaya Tripathi
2023
Hunters in the Snow by Linda Bamber
Eavesdropping by Taylor Byas
Heist by Chris Greenhalgh
Viper by Kimberly Johnson
What I Am Telling You, Jessica, Is That Those Chickens Are Fine by K. T. Landon
Red Skies by Danielle Batalion Ola
Shed by Ashlen Renner
The lone wild goose sticks out his tongue at me by Joyce Schmid
What’s With All These Foxes by Gwendolyn Soper
How to Sweep a Garage Floor by David Thoreen
Sometimes it feels so animal— by Alice White
2022
A Mind at Home with Itself by Marcia LeBeau
The Last Day of America by Benjamin Grimes
Bad New, Baby, Good News, Dog by Britt McGillivray
Doppel by Max Bell
On Throwing Things Away by Amelia McNally
Reading Li Bai During Social Distancing by Jenna Le
2021
A Fox by Ted Kooser
Landfall by Jeremy Griffin
In the Garden by Kelly Rowe
Fetus Eggs by Annie Trinh
At the Coffee Shop on Rogers by Robert Wood Lynn
Three Buttered Muffins by Michael Lavers
She Asks Me, Who Is Roger? by Chrys Tobey
Garden Sitting by Jennifer Dorner
The Sisters Jeppard by George Choundras
Ode to a Fresh Start by Susan Ramsey
We Don’t Die by Darius Simpson
What the Drawing Explains by Jon Fischer
2020
The Names You Choose by Nicole VanderLinden
Squids by Liz Breazeale
the grove again by Aurora Lee Shimshak
Ruthless by Emily Luan
The Time Traveller Chooses an Arrival Point by Emily Blair
There Will Be Salvation Yet by Tania De Rozario
Tilt-a-Whirl by Nancy Miller Gomez
2019
How Young Boys Survive the Ghetto: 101 by Taylor Byas
No blueprint. by Mary Jo Firth Gillett
Learning Swedish in Secret as a Joke by Bobbie Jean Huff
Portrait of Love as Failed Vocabulary Quiz by Kristin Robertson
Flower World by Jeremy Schnotala
2018
The Deluge by Alan Sincic
Return by Analia Villagra
Uber Diaries by Kyle Minor
Our Fathers by Lisa Bellamy
My Babysitter Karen B Who Was Sent to Willard Asylum by Jessica Cuello
Bird by Danusha Lameris
2017
Push by George Bilgere
Ending the Poem by Theresa Burns
Miles by Craig Van Rooyen
My Mother’s Neck by Sarah Suhr
The Burden of Humans by Michael Lavers
The Oregon Trail by Corey Van Landingham
I’m Trying to Write Joyful Poetry by Emily Mohn Slate
Clean Him For the Ashes by David Yee
2016
The Stability of Floating Bodies by Craig Bernardini
Timestamps by Katie Condon
When Mr. Bridges Died by Mark Kraushaar
Horse on a Plane by Joyce Peseroff
Phone Call by Stephanie Rogers
Cousin Scott on Doomsday by Anders Carlson-Wee
Black-Eyed Susan by Lisa Bellamy
The New Loneliness by Claire Bateman
How to Survive on Land by Joy Baglio
We Handle It by Gwen E. Kirby
Black Telephone by Robert Long Foreman
Siccità by Stephen Jarret
The Most American Thing I’ve Ever Seen by Rich Smith
Why It’s Hard to Write about My Brother by Kim Farrar
Here’s My Love Poem by James Lineberger
2015
Sintra by Gail Mazur
Three Sacraments by Brooke Champagne
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:PINK by Bryan Owens
Lately I’ve Been Writing a Lot of Poems About Your Husband by Sarah Carson
In Flight by Lloyd Schwatz
Change in Hat or Glove Size by Darrell Spencer
Sisters Peeling by Julie Henson
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