“Reading Shackleton During My Husband’s Cancer Treatment” by Michele Bombardier, selected by previous NOR contributors

“Covenant” and “It Comes Down” by Gail Griffin and “Thinking About My Father’s Erector Set from 1948” by Jen Siraganian, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye

“Survival of the Unfit: A Retrospective” by Jodie Vinson, selected by previous Lily Hoáng

“Mothers in the World Above and Below” by Abby Horowitz, selected by Kate Bernheimer

2023 NORward Prize

“On Our Way Home” by Jill Michelle, selected by previous NOR contributors

“Has this happened to you” by Rebecca Foust, selected by Denise Duhamel

“I am No Beekeeper” by Arya Samuelson, selected by Barrie Jean Borich

“Baby Suits” by Jonathon Atkinson, selected by Megan Giddings

“Ode to My Father’s Body” by Jeri Theriault, selected by previous NOR contributors

“Lucidity” by Ken Holland, selected by Kim Addonizio

“Speak Up” by Jesse Lee Kercheval, selected by Melissa Febos

“Wolf” by Julie Strayer, selected by Madeline ffitch

“How Do You Name a Hurricane” by Amy Lee Scott, selected by Eric LeMay

“The Mentor” by Lexi Pandell, selected by Patrick O’Keeffe

“We Won’t Die” by Darius Simpson, selected by previous NOR contributors

“What Else the Grapefruit Said” by Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle, selected by Diane Suess

“Winter” by Faith Shearin, selected by Jerald Walker

“Doppel” by Max Bell, selected by Anthony Marra

“Rodeo” by Sunni Brown Wilkinson, selected by previous NOR contributors

“Ruthless” and “When My Sorrow was Born” by Emmy Lee Luan, selected by Ada Limón

“There Will Be Salvation Yet” by Tania De Rozario, selected by Ira Sukrungruang

“The Names You Choose” by Nicole Vanderlinden, selected by Lauren Groff

“Polar Bear” and “The Scar” by George Bilgere, selected by J. Allyn Rosser

“We are the Bachelorettes and We Insist” by Susan Finch, selected by Mandy Berman

“The Flash” by Jennifer Givhan, selected by Tyehimba Jess

“Promised Lands” by Christie Tate, selected by Kiese Laymon

“Coyotes” by Terri Leker, selected by Claire Vaye Watkins

“Quail on the Airfield” by Ellen Suesy, selected by Bianca Spriggs

“Rabbit Summer” by Jane Marcellus, selected by Dinty W. Moore

“My Babysitter Karen B Who Was Sent to Willard Asylum” by Jessica Cuello, selected by Kevin Prufer

“Who’s Loving You” by Kelsey Ronan, selected by Roxane Gay

“Return” by Analía Villagra, selected by Mary Gaitskill

“Where The Stars Are Hived” and “Convocation” by James Linebarger, selected by Rosanna Warren

“Sometimes the Mother Eats Her Young” by Rachel Cochran, selected by Phillip Lopate

“Clean for Him the Ashes” by David E. Yee, selected by Colm Tóibín

“Henry’s Horses,” “The Pale Man,” and “The Boy on the Ridge” by Michael Pearce, selected by Tony Hoagland

“A Creature, Stirring” by Gail Griffin, selected by Elena Passarello

“Audition” by Leslie Rodd, selected by Charles Johnson

“Not Holding the Gun” and “You, Strung” by Keith Kopka, selected by Robert Pinsky

“The Wall,” “In a Year of Drought, I Drink Wine in a Los Angeles Hot Tub,” and “Before the Storm” by Christopher Kempf, selected by Robert Pinsky

“Neighbors” by Suzanne McConnell, selected by Maud Casey

“Rock Harbor” by Susan Finch, selected by Maud Casey

“So that is What I Am” and “Cades Cove Water Wheel Medicine” by Stephanie Horvath, selected by Alan Shapiro

“A Theory of Violence” and “Embarrassment” by Jennifer Perrine, selected by Alan Shapiro

“The Undersized Negative” by Robert Glick, selected by Aimee Bender

“Small Boy” by Joseph Scapellato, selected by Aimee Bender

“Feeling Sorry for Myself While Watching a Really Bad World War II POW Movie on TV” by Michael Derrick Hudson, selected by Barbara Hamby

“Ambassador of the Dead” by George Kalogeris, selected by Barbara Hamby

“The Best Man” by Brian Trapp, selected by Stuart Dybek

“Crimes of the Video Age” by Bradley Bazzle, selected by Stuart Dybek

“Craigslist” by Maya Jewell Zeller, selected by Billy Collins

“Whisper to the Coast” by Christina Hutchins, selected by Billy Collins

“A Man’s Game” by Elizabeth Buchanan, selected by Charles Baxter

“Return of the Media Five” by Maya Sonenberg, selected by Charles Baxter

“A Mile In” by Julie Hanson, selected by Nancy Eimers

“Pretending to be Asleep” and “Owen and Paul” by Angie Mazakis, selected by Nancy Eimers

“The Rush of Losing” by Daniel Larkins, selected by Don de Grazia

“The Truest Thing” by Emily Nagin, selected by Don de Grazia

“Feeling Sorry for Myself While Standing Before the Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum in London,” “Disintegration of Purpose at Cocoa Beach, Florida (Part 1),” “The Businessman Cleans a Mermaid for His Supper,” and “Valuable Lessons Learned on Delaware Bay After the Horseshoe Crabs Came Ashore to Spawn” by Michael Derrick Hudson, selected by Stephen Dunn

“Homing,” “Reading,” “Giving the Bird,” and “Inauguration Day, January 20, 2009” by Beth Marzoni, selected by Stephen Dunn

“Blah, Blah, Black Sheep” by Angie Pelekidis, selected by Ann Beattie

“The Soprano at Midlife” by Matthew Duffus, selected by Ann Beattie

“Fireflies” and “Carpathia” by Cecilia Woloch, selected by Philip Levine

“The Animal Trade” by Christine Nicolai, selected by Peter Ho Davies