Read the Fourteenth Annual
Poetry Contest winners here.



Fifteenth Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.


FIRST PLACE

HEATHER TRESELER
Postscript


SECOND PLACE

LAURA FOLEY
Amaryllis


THIRD PLACE

AVIA TADMOR
My Grandfather Delivers a Survivor’s Testimony at Yad Vashem


FINALISTS

Kim Addonizio
My Opera

J. P. Grasser
Dead Horse and Gone, the Old Verve, Gone

Emma Jaques
Aubade, with Love as a Watermelon

Jon D. Lee
Pig Shit Cannon

Anne Haven McDonnell
Inside a Lateness, a Singing under Snow

Amy Miller
The Aging Body as a Japanese Garden

Caitlin Roach
Washington

Michael O’Ryan
Horse Thief

Martha Paz-Soldan
Mestra as Translator

Pimone Triplett
At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room


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