Poem of the Week Awards
Jed Myers of Seattle, Washington for “I Can’t Feel the War”
Jed Myers is author of three books of poetry, most recently Learning to Hold (Wandering Aengus, Editors’ Award, 2024). Recent honors include the Northwest Review Poetry Prize, the River Heron Poetry Prize, the New Millennium Writings Poetry Award, and the Sundress Chapbook Editor’s Choice Award. Poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Rattle, The Poetry Review, RHINO, Poetry Northwest, Southern Indiana Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. Myers lives in Seattle and edits the journal Bracken.
— FINALISTS —
Andrea Bartosiak
Tallahassee, Florida
“More than just a drop”
Miranda Beeson
New York, New York
“Lyric”
Wes Civilz
Tucson, Arizona
“Self-Portrait as Chimpanzee”
Kim Farrar
Astoria, New York
“The End of the Road”
Annette Gagliardi
Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Aficionado”
Lauren Gebrian
San Francisco, California
“Mysterious Cast”
Thomas Johnson
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
“Love Sonnet for Virgo”
Barbara Knott
Palmetto, Georgia
“PanElvis”
Mel Konner
Avondale Estates, Georgia
“A Child is Being Born”
Caleb Lackey
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
“Lvoe”
Clif Mason
Bellevue, Nebraska
“The Witch’s Interrogation“
Ed McManis
Denver, Colorado
“Aligning the Planets”
Bill Ratner
Los Angeles, California
“The Memory Machine”
Brittany Richter
Racine, Wisconsin
“Enabling Cain”
Claire Scott
Oakland, California
“Sessile Stage”
Lily Tobias
Auburn Hills, Michigan
“What the Image Revealed”
Marie Turowski
Swannanoa, North Carolina
“Boat People”
Roger Vickery
Sydney, Australia
“Jacob”
Diana Woodcock
Midlothian, Virginia
“Still Learning”
Ping Yi Yee
Singapore, Singapore
“Kissing Air”