New Millennium Writing Awards 55 | 2023
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 55th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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Poetry
Begats | Damen O’Brien
54th NMW Award for Begats. Damen O’Brien of Brisbane, Australia for “Begats”
From tadpoles to the endless lineage of Eve, O’Brien’s poem teems with primal imagery, a splendorous reminder that within each of us lies infinity, a poem within a poem.
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New Millennium Writing Awards 54 | 2022
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 54th New Millennium Writing Awards!
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To the protesters on Vandalia | A. E. Wynter
53rd NMW Award for Poetry.
A. E. Wynter of St. Paul, Minnesota for “To the protesters on Vandalia”
A poem to remind us that the fight is far from over.
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New Millennium Writing Awards 53 | 2022
First Place Winners, Finalists, and Honorable Mentions of the 53rd New Millennium Writing Awards!
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Almost There | John Cullen
51st NMW Award for Poetry.
John Cullen of Big Rapids, Michigan for “Almost There”
Equal parts hopefulness and peaceful resignation, “Almost There” left this Editor with a lump in her throat and a song in her heart.
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Lesson for a Tree in a Snowstorm | Susan Salgy
51st NMW Award for Poetry.
Susan Salgy of Provo, Utah for “Lesson for Tree in a Snowstorm,”
The poem we all need right now, the one to remind us that all storms, no matter their blinding endurance, must yet pass.
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Pass Over | Doris Ferleger
50th NMW Award for Poetry.
Doris Ferleger of Wyncote, Pennsylvania for “Pass Over”
a heart-caressing poem on what the living and the leaving can offer one another as the time for departure approaches.
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grandfather: a dialect of water | Ian Khara Ellasante
An ode to those who shape us and teach us how to flow through this life.
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Addendum | Hannah Perrin King
48th New Millennium Award for Poetry
Hannah Perrin King of Cool, California for ”Addendum”
King’s poem is a quiet masterpiece, a revelatory and reverent ode to the fate that awaits every living thing.
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