Willow Run Poetry Book Award Semi-finalists, Finalists and Winner

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Stephen Odiedo of Siaya, Kenya wins the Willow Run Poetry Book Award

We are excited and pleased to announce the long list of our 2023/2024 cycle of the Willow Run Poetry Book Award as well as the winner, Stephen Odiedo, for his work, Udjat.  He will receive a monetary award of $1,000 U.S. and publication on our Hidden River Press imprint of Hidden River Publishing.

We wish to extend our great congratulations to Stephen as well as to all who are included on our long list of participants. We’re appreciative of everyone who entrusted us with their submissions, and wish you all the very best with your work. Thank you all so very much.

The next cycle of the Willow Run Poetry Book Award is currently accepted manuscripts through April 30, 2024. Complete guidelines and additional information can be found here and here.

The semi-finalists and finalists of the competition are:

Semi finalists

Baldwin, Michael, Benbrook, Texas, Empty Ocean, Birdless Sky

Berry, Eleanor, Dallas, Oregn, Here Among Others

Bloch, Talia, Brooklyn, NY, How We Keep Each Other Company

Bobrow, Laura, Leesburg, Virginia, Basile in Rhyme

Brostoff, Richard, Lexington, Massachusetts, The Head Inside Still Smoke

Brown, Clement, Fall River, Massachusetts, Lincoln Avenue and Other Poems

Cooper, Jack, Eugene, Oregon, Unacountable Distance

Correa, Angel, Costa Mesa, California, Prayers 4 the 21st Century

Cummins, Paul, Santa Monica, California, Today, Yesterday,Tomorrow

Cvencek, Dario, Seattle, Washington, Mirror Made of Words

Deimling, Kate, Brooklyn, NY, Every Moment a Farewell

Diakolios, Elias, Leonia, New Jersey, Euaisthitos

Dillon, Panika, Austin, Texax, code name: Cassandra

Floyd, David, Southampton, New Jersey, What Light Cannot Repair

Goodman, Eric, Glen Arm, Maryland, Faraway Tables

Hanrahan, Sean, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ghost Signs

Hempel, Elise, Charleston, Illinois, Lost Words

Jampole, Marc, New York, New York, Kangaroo Poems

Johnson, Richard, Arlington, VA, Free Air Berlin: Of a Wall and a Walnut Tree

Kajaria, Rohit, Oakton, Virginia, Footnotes to Life

Lang, Susanna, Chicago, IL, Thrive

Lee, Donna, Princeton Junction, New Jersey, Whole

Lemons, Gary, Port Townsend, Washington, Collateral Joy

May, Claudia, Fridley, MN, Birthing Butterflies

Menon, Tara, Lexington, Massachusetts, Luminescent Tears

Milburn, Michael, Hamden, Connecticut, Real Thing Strange

Miller, Pete, Omaha, Nebraska, Terminal Restlessness

Morrison, Andrew, San Antonio, Texas, Making Connections

Mowbray, Rebekah, Stanwell Tops, Australia, The Songbird

Odiedo, Stephen, Siaya, Kenya, Udjat

Reisbick, Melinda, Seaford, Virginia, Worth Living For

Roeser, Dana, West Lafayette, Indiana, Clownfish

Samore, Bradley, Plano, Texas, Museum with Docent

Scrupe, Mara Adamitz, New Canton, Virginia, Drawing Lessons

Segrest, Austin, Appleton, Wisconsin, Afterclap

Sierksma, Rypke, Montmorillion, France, Whales’ Wrath

Sullivan, David, Santa Cruz, California, Light Thief

Sumners, Pamela, St. Louis, Missouri, Water Pie

Sweetman, Chuck, Denver, Colorado, Late Bloomers: A Documentary Film

Toskar, Stephen, Toyosato, Chitose-she, Japan, How Can Hearts Beat This Hart & NotBreak?

Vidali, Viktoria, Hawi, Hawaii, A Poetic Trilogy: The Earth, being Human & The Crossroads

Ware, Lance, Jacksonville, Florida, Voices Still Alive

Woodcock, Diana, Midlothian, Virginia, Heaven Underfoot

Woodman, Christopher, Wilson, WY, LA-CROIX-MA-FILLE! Hexes, Ruins, Riddles & Relics.

Finalists

Bobrow, Laura, Leesburg, Virginia, Basile in Rhyme

Brostoff, Richard, Lexington, Massachusetts, The Head Inside Still Smoke

Cvencek, Dario, Seattle, Washington, Mirror Made of Words

Dillon, Panika, Austin, Texax, code name: Cassandra

Goodman, Eric, Glen Arm, Maryland, Faraway Tables

Johnson, Richard, Arlington, VA, Free Air Berlin: Of a Wall and a Walnut Tree

Kajaria, Rohit, Oakton, Virginia, Footnotes to Life

Lang, Susanna, Chicago, IL, Thrive

Lemons, Gary, Port Townsend, Washington, Collateral Joy

May, Claudia, Fridley, MN, Birthing Butterflies

Menon, Tara, Lexington, Massachusetts, Luminescent Tears

Milburn, Michael, Hamden, Connecticut, Real Thing Strange

Morrison, Andrew, San Antonio, Texas, Making Connections

Odiedo, Stephen, Siaya, Kenya, Udjat

Scrupe, Mara Adamitz, New Canton, Virginia, Drawing Lessons

Sumners, Pamela, St. Louis, Missouri, Water Pie

Sweetman, Chuck, Denver, Colorado, Late Bloomers: A Documentary Film

Woodcock, Diana, Midlothian, Virginia, Heaven Underfoot

Woodman, Christopher, Wilson, WY, LA-CROIX-MA-FILLE! Hexes, Ruins, Riddles & Relics.

WINNER OF THE WILLOW RUN POETRY BOOK AWARD

Odiedo, Stephen, Siaya, Kenya, Udjat

PAST LONG LISTS AND WINNERS

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Our 2021/2022 Cycle:

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      Rosetta Marantz Cohen

We are pleased to announce Rosetta Marantz Cohen as the winner of our 2021/2022 cycle of The Willow Run Poetry Book Award, for her manuscript, Five Women. The semi-finalists and finalists of our 2021/2022 cycle of The Willow Run Poetry Book Award can be found below.

The next round of The Willow Run Poetry Book Award will deadline February 20, 2023. Guidelines for the award can be found here.

Semifinalists

Adams, Kate, Mountain View, California, Scattered Pieces: A Songbook for Francesco & Laura

Angstman, Leah, Louisville, Colorado, Reverse Migration: Not Coming Home

Benz, Stephen, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Many Detours

Bradford, Robin, Austin, Texas, Take What I Want

Buchanan, Shonda, Playa Del Rey, California, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone

Cohen, Rosetta, Northampton, Massachusetts, Five Women

Dearinger, Kevin Lane, Lexington, Kentucky, Moth and Wasp

Donahue, Jack, Centerport, New York, River Symphony

Evans, David, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Yin and Yang in the Weight Room

Farley, Malcolm G., Northport, New York, Dysturbia

Friedman, M.D., Lafayette, Colorado, Into Lighte

Greaves, Nicole, Flourtown, Pennsylvania, Having Witnessed the Illusion

Hamilton, Jeff, St. Louis, Missouri, A Straightforward Bargain

Heath, William, Annapolis, Maryland, Steel Valley Elegy

Jespers, Richard, Lubbock, Texas, One Hundred Hearses: Elegy for the Forgotten

Kramer, George R., Alexandria, Virginia, Lancing the Double-Woven Heart

Karpowich, Karen,New York City, New York, Small Acts

Lowinsky, Naomi, Ruth, Pleasant Hill, California, Your Face in the Fire

McNally, Chris, Elizaville, New York, Fragments of an America, vol. 2

Michaels, Judith, Hillsborough, New Jersey, This Morning the Mountain

Milburn, Michael, Hamden, Connecticut, How Many, How Far

Moolten, David, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  The Moirologist

Morrison, Andrew,  San Antonio, Texas, Connctions

Mulvey, Bern, Surprise, Arizona, Found

Phillips, Catharine, Roselle, Illinois, Skipping Stones

Saman, Mustafa Erkin, Istanbul, Turkey, The Other Side

Savishinsky, Joel, Seattle, Washington, Trying to Improve Upon Silence

Schein, Michael, Portland, Oregon, The Killer Poet’s Guide to End Time

Schulten, Emily, Key West, Florida, Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia

Schwartz, Carla, Carlisle, Massachusetts, Survival Instinct

Scrupe, Mara Adamitz, New Canton, Virginia, Reap a florilegium

Steinwand, Kurt, Brandon, Florida, Snapshots from a Suitcase

Toskar, Stephen, Hokkaido, Japan, A Music Box for Insomniacs & Suicides

Finalists

Buchanan, Shonda, Playa Del Rey, California, The Lost Songs of Nina Simone

Cohen, Rosetta Marantz, Northampton, Massachusetts, Five Women

Farley, Malcolm G., Northport, New York, Dysturbia

Friedman, M.D., Lafayette, Colorado, Into Light

Greaves, Nicole, Flourtown, Pennsylvania, Having Witnessed the Illusion

Kramer, George R., Alexandria, Virginia, Lancing the Double-Woven Heart

Jespers, Richard, Lubbock, Texas, One Hundred Hearses: Elegy for the Forgotten

Saman, Mustafa Erkin, Istanbul, Turkey, The Other Side

Scrupe, Mara Adamitz, New Canton, Virginia, Reap a florilegium

Toskar, Stephen, Hokkaido, Japan, A Music Box for Insomniacs & Suicides

Winner

Cohen, Rosetta Marantz, Northampton, Massachusetts, Five Women

Congratulations to everyone! We appreciate you sharing your work with us.  We honor and cherish each and every one of you!  Please be sure to follow our blog for the naming of our winner.

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Semi-finalists, Finalists and Winner offer 2020/2021 Cycle

Winner of the 2020 Willow Run Poetry Book Award, João Luís Guimarães

The winner of the 2020 cycle of The Willow Run Poetry Book Award is João Luís Guimarães, Porto, Portugal, for his beautiful collection, Mediterranean.

The list of the semi-finalists and finalists of the 2020 Willow Run Poetry Book Award are listed below.  The next round of submissions for the Willow Run Award deadlines February 20, 2022. The guidelines for the Willow Run Award can be found here.

We would like to sincerely thank everyone who submitted their work to us.  We have been humbled by the remarkable work that we are receiving. Poets from all over the U.S. and Canada, from the U.K, from Japan, India, China.  It makes our work harder, but certainly offers much pleasure in reading. Be sure to follow our blog for updates on all events, on our award winners, our book publications and other activities.

The 2020 Willow Run Poetry Book Award

Semi-finalists

Appel, Jacob, New York, New York, Escape from Suburbia: Poems

Bensussen, Henri, Santa Rosa, California, Ripped Seams/Threads of Hope

Chance, Jane, Houston, Texas, Pancho-Girl

Colburn, Don, Portland, Oregon, Purchase

Cole, Catherine, Liverpool, UK, 50 Aphorisms for a War

Cooperman, Robert, Denver, Colorado, A Nightmare on Horseback

Coppola, Emma, Johannesburg, South Africa, cacti as company

Davison, Steven, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Fire in the Earth

Dennerstein, Natasha, Oakland, California, The Lightning-Struck Tower

DiMaggio, Gail, Concord, New Hampshire, Landscape with Woman Turning

Erzinger, T.A.K., ZH Switzerland, At the Foot of the Mountain

Fulton, Julia, La Jolla, California, As Orchids in the Hothouse Bloom

Garten, Bill, Hudson, Ohio, We Have to Stop Here

Glenn, Laura, Ithaca, New York, Something Like That

Guimarães, João Luís, Porto, Portugal, Mediterranean

Hamby, James, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Fallible Aesthetics

Heath, William, Frederick, Maryland, Steel Valley Elegy

Heath, William, Frederick, Maryland, Prospecting

Henry, DeWitt, Watertown, Massachusetts, Restless for Words:  Poems

Herz, Robert, Syracuse, New York, Everyone is Leaving the Old Neighborhood

Heung, Aidan, Shanghai, China, out of time

Hopes, David, Asheville, North Carolina, Before the Flight

Lamson, Brandon, Houston, Texas, Mountains Walking

Landau, Lee, Brandenton, Florida, The Distance Between Us

Lass, Egon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Glimpses Into A Dark Salon

Lentfer, Jennifer, Washington, D.C., The Sky is Green

Lerner, Michelle, Flanders, New Jersey, Autopsy

Lipschultz, Geri, Huntington Station, New York, Poesies & Other Brutalities

Lund, Christine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Goddess Ship

Makofske, Mary, Warwick, New York, No Angels

Maher, Adrienne, Livonia, New York, Driving the Dark

Madon, Zubin, Chennai, TN, India, Four Feet Together

McMaster, Arthur, Greenville, South Carolina, The Whole Picture Show

Menon, Tara, Lexington, Massachusetts, Silhouettes of Surprise

Meyer, David, Oak Park, Illinois, The Lotus War: Never in Country

Mink, Chris, Austin, Texas, Warnings in the Curve of the Land

Moeira, N.F., Northampton, Massachusetts, Unearthscapes

Morrison, Andrew, San Antonio, Texas, Going West

Moss, Glenn, New York, New York, American Journey

Nac, Ana, Oxfordshire, UK, We Fall

Phillips, Catharine, Roselle, Illinois, Borderless Love

Rieves, Dwaine, Washington, D.C., Red Camaro

Schloss, David, Cincinnati, Ohio, Provocations

Scrupe, Mara Adamitz, New Canton, Virginia, Lazarus Weed Belief

Silverman, Stuart, Hot Springs, Arkansas, Drifters

Silvestri, Dianne, Natick, Massachusetts, Tackled

Studer, Constance, Louisville, Colorado, Heart Shift

Toskar, Stephen, Hokkaido, Japan, The First Lies the Heart Tells

Velie, Dianalee, Newbury, New Hampshire, Italian Lesson

Ward, Charlotte, Malibu, California, A Natural Path

Westley, Richard, Kennebunk, Maine, Halo Effect

Williams, Christie Max, Mystic, Connecticut, All But Immortal

Finalists

Appel, Jacob, New York, New York, Escape from Suburbia: Poems

Erzinger, T.A.K., ZH Switzerland, At the Foot of the Mountain

Guimarães, João Luís, Porto, Portugal, Mediterranean

Henry, DeWitt, Watertown, Massachusetts, Restless for Words:  Poems

Herz, Robert, Syracuse, New York, Everyone is Leaving the Old Neighborhood

Heung, Aidan, Shanghai, China, out of time

Lass, Egon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Glimpses Into A Dark Salon

Madon, Zubin, Chennai, TN, India, Four Feet Together

Menon, Tara, Lexington, Massachusetts, Silhouettes of Surprise

Westley, Richard, Kennebunk, Maine, Halo Effect

Winner

Guimarães, João Luís, Porto, Portugal, Mediterranean

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The 2019 Willow Run Poetry Book Award 

Semi-finalists

Aida, Ai, Albany, CA, From Here to Hear

Arrindell, Daemond, Seattle, WA, When the Music Box Won’t Open

Ashman, Lewis, Kettering, OH, A Residual Grammar

Bass, Greg, Pleasant Prairie, WI, Otherwise Looking Back

Bentley, Roy, Pataskala, OH, Hillbilly Guilt

Brown, Andrea, Los Angeles, American Fraktur

Brown, Marion, Bronxville, NY, Night at the Nomad Hotel

Buckholts, Claudia, Somerville, MA, Travelers on Earth

Buker, Russell, Calais, ME, India Poems from here

Chawla, Nishi, Potomac, MD, From: Immigrant Diaries

Clements, Nina, Madison, WI, Our Mother of Sorrows

Cooperman, Robert, Denver, CO, Plowmen of the Earth

Conroy, Flower, Key West, FL, You Can’t Keep Killing Yourself & Not Expect to Die

Ferleger, Doris, Wyncote, PA, As For The Kiss

Ferrara, Gina, New Orleans, LA, Weight of the Ripened

Fisher, Hazel, Saylorsburg, PA, Tea is not the Same

Flores, Michelle, Jacksonville, FL, Invasive Species

Fogel, Alice B., Walpole, NH, Nothing But

Gordon, Sarah, Athens, GA, The Lost Thing and Other Poems

Greenhause, Jonathan, Jersey City, NJ, Our Spilt Blood at the Borders

Griego, Anna, Albuquerque, NM, Illuminated

Haddad, Amy, Omaha, NE, An Otherwise Healthy Woman

Harris, Lyall, Charlottesville, VA, Barrier Island

Heath, William, Frederick, MD, Steel Valley Elegy

Itzin, Charles, Fair Haven, NY, Leaving (Instructions from the saints)

Jampole, Marc, NYC, NY, A History of the World in 52 Poems

Kelsey, Candice, Los Angeles, CA, Still I am Pushing [ ]

Kessler, Ruth, NYC, NY, The Country of Elsewhere

Knox, Robert, Quincy, MA, This Tree

Kroms, Vera, Brighton, MA, Alice in Darkness

Langstroth, Gail, Pittsburgh, PA, no holywhite

Levchev, Vladimir, Sofia, Bulgaria, Love in the Square

Lick, Sue Fagalde, South Beach, OR, Scotch Tape and Paper Clips

Looney, George, Erie, PA, Ode to the Earth in Translation

Machen, Katharyn, Ithaca, NY, Fox

McFarland, Ron, Moscow, ID, a variable sense of things

Meyer, David, Oak Park, IL, Obsessions

Mian, Hinnah, Charleston, WV, To Build a Home

Mitchell-Foust, Michelle, Eugene, OR, Riddle Field

Moss, Glenn, NYC, NY, Journeys

Myers, Jed, Seattle, WA, Burning Man

Nohrnberg, Peter, Cambridge, MA, Distant Objects

Nyhart, Al, White Sulpher Springs, MT, The Man Himself

Painter, Holly, South Burlington, VT, They tell me I am wicked and I believe them

Papczun, Kristy Ulrich, Chicago, IL, Remembering My Father

Paris, Christopher, Center Barnstead, NH, We

Parsons, Mark, Tokyo, Japan, Lessons from Post-Revolution Melodrama

Rancourt, Suzanne, Hadley, NY, Old Stones, New Roads

Reardon, Patick, Chicago, IL, 19 poems about my brother

Reyburn, Brian, Pittsburgh, PA One Hundred or so Sonnets

Scrupe, Mara Adamitz, Philadelphia, PA, How to Use Animal Bones for Survival

Spencer, Jane, Naples, FL, Poetic Nature

Stedronsky, Carole, Davis, CA, Dear Sally

Stepakoff, Shanee, Farmington, ME, Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court…

Stone, Diane, Clinton, WA, On the Road to Here and Now

Stone, Ellen, Ann Arbor, MI, What is in the blood

Sumerau, Jason, Orlando, FL, Hold. The Trappings of Entrapment

Sumners, Pamela, St. Louis, MO, God’s Math

Sweeder, John, Ocean City, NJ, Untethered Balloons: Poems

Tighe, Betsy, Portland, OR, Pillow Talk

Toskar, Stephen, Hokkaido, Japan, The Taste of Prayer – Fragments of a Life

Tracy, Dillon, Champaign, IL, The Polar Vortex Winters

Walsh, Timothy, Madison, WI, Bicycling to Nowhere

White, Sharon, Philadelphia, PA, Everything is Liquid

Wyatt, Charles, Nashville, TN, The Spider’s Web

Wynn, Pamela, New Brighton, MA, Seahorse Tattoed on the Small of Her Back

Wyshynski, James, Marietta, GA, Romancing Akhmatova

Finalists

Aida, Ai, Albany, CA, From Here to Hear

Bentley, Roy, Pataskala, OH, Hillbilly Guilt

Brown, Andrea, Los Angeles, American Fraktur

Buckholts, Claudia, Somerville, MA, Travelers on Earth

Conroy, Flower, Key West, FL, You Can’t Keep Killing Yourself & Not Expect to Die

Ferleger, Doris, Wyncote, PA, As For The Kiss

Fisher, Hazel, Saylorsburg, PA, Tea is not the Same

Gordon, Sarah, Athens, GA, The Lost Thing and Other Poems

Heath, William, Frederick, MD, Steel Valley Elegy

Kessler, Ruth, NYC, NY, The Country of Elsewhere

Knox, Robert, Quincy, MA, This Tree

Kroms, Vera, Brighton, MA, Alice in Darkness

Levchev, Vladimir, Sofia, Bulgaria, Love in the Square

Looney, George, Erie, PA, Ode to the Earth in Translation

Machen, Katharyn, Ithaca, NY, Fox

Nyhart, Al, White Sulpher Springs, MT, The Man Himself

Papczun, Kristy Ulrich, Chicago, IL, Remembering My Father

Reardon, Patick, Chicago, IL, 19 poems about my brother

Spencer, Jane, Naples, FL, Poetic Nature

Stedronsky, Carole, Davis, CA, Dear Sally

Stepakoff, Shanee, Farmington, ME, Testimony: Found Poems from the Special Court…

Sumerau, Jason, Orlando, FL, Hold. The Trappings of Entrapment

Sweeder, John, Ocean City, NJ, Untethered Balloons: Poems

White, Sharon, Philadelphia, PA, Everything is Liquid

Wyatt, Charles, Nashville, TN, The Spider’s Web

Wyshynski, James, Marietta, GA, Romancing Akhmatova

Winner

Bentley, Roy, Pataskala, OH, Hillbilly Guilt

Congratulations to everyone, and again, thank you so much for your faith in us; we are honored by your submissions and the sharing of your work.

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The 2018 Willow Run Poetry Book Award

Our winner is Carol Tyx, for her wonderful poetry collection about a prisoner uprising at the Angola Prison (more detail coming about Carol and her work shortly!), Remaking Achilles: Slicing Into Angola’s History

We want to congratulate Carol, who will receive $1,000 in prize money, and whose winning manuscript will be published by Hidden River Press, an imprint of Hidden River Publishing.

We also want to thank all our poets, who entrusted us with their work. You are all making remarkable, magical creative work, and our world is a better place because of it!

Semi-finalists

Allbritain, Deborah, San Diego, California, The Bluff at Road’s End
Andrea, Jennifer, El Cerrito, California, Keşke
Bowers, John, Ithaca, New York, Generation
Caplin, Abby, San Fransisco, California, It’s a Wet Rich Poor Sick Beautiful World
DeNicola, Deborah, Margate, Florida, The Lure
Dewoody, Dale, Shawnee, Oklahoma, Highway Mirage
Ducker, Bruce, Denver, Colorado, Some Friends of Mine
Emerson, C.W., Los Angeles, California, Luminous Body, Glittering Ash
Evans, Anna, Richmond, Virginia, Between What Disappeared
Fleming, Deborah, Perrysville, Ohio, Earthrise
Greenhause, Jonathan, Jersey City, New Jersey, “Our Problem, too, Bear”
Griffin, Shaun, Virginia City, Nevada, The Monastery of Stars
Heath, William, Frederick, Maryland, Walkabout
Hettich, Michael, Black Mountain, North Carolina, To Start An Orchard
Jang, Deborah, Denver, Colorado, Float True
Kumar, Lavinia, Plainsboro, New Jersey, Corresponding with the Otherworld
Lanza, Carmela, Gallup, New Mexico, I Had Left Even Their Spirits Behind Me
Machan, Katharyn, Ithaca, New York, Fox
Mackey, Matthew, Aurora, Colorado, The Moon and Nothing Else
McGuffin, Jane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Page is Half Full
Miller, John, Lexington, Virginia, Working With a First and Second Language
Moeller, Eileen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Glass
Morant, Daisy, St. Catharines, Ontario, Nemo
Northerns, Janice, Liberal, Kansas, Breaking City Ordinances
Palacio, Harry, Mount Kisco, New York, Ambrosia
Pobo, Kenneth, Media, Pennsylvania, Uneven Steven
Repp, John, Erie, Pennsylvania, Summer Mornings in the Waning Days of Empire
Richards, Page, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, How I Learned to Drink Coffee
Robbins, Liz, St. Augustine, Florida, Nets Full of Breath
Stanton, Joseph, Aiea, Hawaii, Wild in the Backyards of Oahu
Stedronsky, Carole, Davis, California, Dear Sally
Tyx, Carol, Iowa City, Iowa, Remaking Achilles: Slicing Into Angola’s History
Ulloa, Edgar, Washington, D.C., War-X
Weingart, Arne, Chicago, Illinois, Dolmens, Menhirs, Cromlechs
White, Joanna, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, Drumskin and Bones
Wyatt, Charles, Nashville, Tennessee, 3×6: Caprices

Finalists

Andrea, Jennifer, El Cerrito, California, Keşke
Bowers, John, Ithaca, New York, Generation
DeNicola, Deborah, Margate, Florida, The Lure
Lanza, Carmela, Gallup, New Mexico, I Had Left Even Their Spirits Behind Me
Moeller, Eileen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Glass
Nash, Amy, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Take No Prisoners Hotel
Stedronsky, Carole, Davis, California, Dear Sally
Tyx, Carol, Iowa City, Iowa, Remaking Achilles: Slicing Into Angola’s History

Winner
Tyx, Carol, Iowa City, Iowa, Remaking Achilles: Slicing Into Angola’s History