Julia Katrina Agulair Cariño
University of Virginia
Academy of American Poets Prize
Marissa Ahmadkhani
California Polytechnic State University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Alaa Al-Barkawi, “Wedding Daydream”
Westminster College
Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Prize
Alya Albert, “For Ma”
Pratt Institute
Academy of American Poets Prize
Roman Alcazar, “Reception of Conception”
Central Pennsylvania College
Geraldine G. Britcher Poetry Prize
Rawda Aljawhary, “Akhmatova Egypt”
Brandeis University
The Ramón Feliciano Poetry Prize
D. Allen, “Great Plains”
University of Minnesota
James Wright Prize in Poetry
Lisette Alonso, “Postcard From the Corner House”
University of Miami
Alfred Boas Poetry Prize
John Angelo Alonzo, “Warm Compress in April”
Cooper Union
Elizabeth Kray Prize
Anna Marie Anastasi, “penpal”
Fordham University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Cassandra Anouthay, “First Name Cassandra, Middle Name Remembrance”
Aquinas College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Ashely Baker, “Stationary”
Sweet Briar College
The Jean Taylor Meyer Memorial Poetry Prize
Yea Jee Bae, “3:27 AM”
Duke University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Elias Baez, “Sidereal Time”
Amherst College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Kristin George Bagdanov, “Lamb Body”
Colorado State University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Chauncey Baker, “The Sleepwalker’s Manifesto”
Washington & Lee University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Steven Bankert, “26 Cuts”
University of Delaware
Harold Taylor Prize
Anne Barngrover, “Midwestern Litany”
University of Missouri at Columbia
Academy of American Poets Prize
Jai Bashir, “Double Exposure”
University of Utah
Larry Levis Memorial Poetry Prize
Elle Bathory, “Noah’s Ark”
Indiana State University
The Madeline DeGaetano Memorial Poetry Prize
Bronte Billings, “Carved Bone”
Cleveland State University
Alberta Turner Poetry Prize
Benjamin Blackhurst, “Portraiture”
Brigham Young University
Ethel Lowry Handley Poetry Prize
Donovan Borger (undergraduate), “Rings”
SUNY Binghamton
Academy of American Poets Prize
Katy Boyer, “Dream of Wraith’s Daughter”
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College
Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Poetry Prize
Aozora Brockman, “Butchering”
Northwestern University
Jean Meyer Aloe Poetry Prize
Vina Brown
Northwest Indian College
The Betty and Norman Lockwood Poetry Prize
Ariana Brown, “Origins”
University of Texas at Austin
Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Kaydra Bui, “dis(quiet)"
Bradley University
Sipple Poetry Prize
Christine Calella, “Out, Out, Damn Stone”
Lafayette College
Jean E. Corrie Poetry Prize
Blake N. Campbell, “Bioluminescence”
Emerson College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Melanie Canales
Wells College
Catharine B. De Pau Poetry Prize
Husayn Carnegie, “birthdaypoem: twentyfive”
University of California, Irvine
Academy of American Poets Prize
Maria Catherino, “For the Neighbor at Christmas”
Cornell College
Prize in Memory of Clyde and Jewell Bothwell Tull
Malik Charchour, “The Purple Ram”
Hartwick College
Anna Sonder Prize
Leila Chatti, “Ode to Ugly Things”
North Carolina State University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Jack Chelgren, “Laocoon”
University of Washington
Harold Taylor Prize
Julia Chille
Wellesley College
Nevin Prize
Hedgie Choi, “Rosa”
Yonsei University / Underwood International College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Helena Chung, “From a Theater”
Johns Hopkins University
The Laureen Rita Schipsi Poetry Prize
Phebe Ciemny, “There is a Staircase in the Mind Composed of No Steps”
George Mason University
The Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize
Emily Rose Cole, "Premonition”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (graduate)
Academy of American Poets Prize
Justin Colon-Rabinowitz, “Chuíto Molina”
Hofstra University
Nancy P. Schnader Award
Michaela Coplan, “Ancient Fragment on the Theory of Ruin Value”
Vassar College
Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Prize
Mary Cornelius
Augsburg College
John R. Mitchell Academy of American Poets Prize
Taylor Cornelius, “Bill Cody”
Kenyon College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Sarah Costello, “Visiting la Isla del Encanto”
George Washington University
A. E. Claeyssens, Jr. Poetry Prize
Quinton Couch, “Beware Havoc Alda”
Miami University (undergraduate)
Harris S. Abrahams Poetry Prize
Max Crinnin, “My Sverige”
SUNY Buffalo
The Academy of American Poets Prize
Kevin Crush, “Gentle Sway”
United States Naval Academy
Stuart Pitt Memorial Poetry Prize
Kristina Marie Darling, “Notes to a History of the Locket”
SUNY Buffalo
Dan Liberthson Poetry Prize
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, “For the Journalists Who Write About Ukraine”
University of Pennsylvania
William Carlos Williams Prize
Chloe DiFillipis, “the accident”
New Jersey City University
The Walter Glospie Academy of American Poets Prize
Caroline Dehart, “Rorschach Test”
Rollins College
Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Cody Deitz, “Fireworks”
California State University, Northridge
George Dillon Memorial Award
Matthew DeMarco, “When my friend tells me that an ex-lover headbutted her nose until it busted,"
Columbia College Chicago
Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize
Christian Detisch, “The Little Way”
Virginia Commonwealth University
Catherine and Joan Byrne Poetry Prize
Theresa DiMascio, “Alien”
Washington University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Allyson Donato, “The Lovers of Valdaro”
Chatham College
The Laurie Mansell Reich Poetry Prize
Sarah Dravec, “If We Are Going to Disappear”
Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts
Academy of American Poets Prize
Brittney Duncan, “One Hundred Eight Miles From a Hospital Bed”
University of Memphis
The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Valerie Dunn
Washington College
The Jude and Miriam Pfister Poetry Prize
Emily Duquette, “Odd Sister”
Old Dominion University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Ryler Dustin, “The Movement of Fields”
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Wilbur Gaffney Poetry Prize
Ronald Dzerigian, “Our California”
California State University, Fresno (graduate)
Ernesto Trejo Memorial Prize
Max Eberts, “Blue Jay and Sparrow”
University of Idaho
Academy of American Poets Prize
Kelly Egan, “Diaspora”
Saint Mary’s College of California
Russell & Yvonne Lannan Poetry Prize
Mica Evans, “Lessons in Forbearance”
Bennington College
The Green Prize for Poetry
William Fargason, “Sugar”
Florida State University (graduate)
Academy of American Poets Prize
Samantha Fazekas, “Breathing”
Loyola University Maryland
Academy of American Poets Prize
Jane Feldmann, “When you left”
Dickinson College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Mariele Fluegeman, “Triptych for the Odd Saint Out”
Centre College
Paul Cantrell Poetry Prize
Gil Franqui, “Homonyms”
Rollins College
Arden Goettling / Academy of American Poets Prize
Joshua Gill-Sutton
San Francisco State University (undergraduate)
Academy of American Poets Piri Thomas Poetry Prize
Caitlin Gilvary
Rutgers University
Enid Dame Memorial Poetry Prize
Macaulay Glynn
Keystone College
Edward M. Cameron IV Poetry Prize
Tyler Goldman, “Have You Ever Noticed The Way The Blind Seem To Think With Their Eyes”
University of Maryland, College Park
Prize in Memory of Anaïs Nin
Benjamin Goodman, “New John”
Princeton University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Kaiya Gordon, “Self Portrait (So Much Depends)"
Lewis & Clark College
Vern Rutsala Academy of American Poets Prize
Adam Graaf, “Militaria”
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Harold Taylor Prize
Dean Granitsas, “Fire”
Muskingum College
Beulah Brooks Brown Award in Poetry
Nick Greer, “Gigantopithecus”
University of Arizona
Academy of American Poets Prize
Emily Gritzmachcer, ";Ingredients”
Oregon State University
Weaver Undergraduate Poetry Award
Kia Groom, “The Impulse Purchase”
University of New Orleans
Andrea Saunders Gereighty Poetry Award
Margaret Hass, “After Aeneas”
Skidmore College
Academy of American Poets Prize
R.M. Haines, “The Instructor”
University of North Texas
Paul R. Voertman Prize
Joseph Han, “For Sewol”
University of Hawai’i
Harold Taylor Prize
David Handsher, “A Woman Falls Into a Manhole While Texting”
The City College of San Francisco
The Felicia Farr Lemon Poetry Prize
Kevin Hargrave
University of Richmond
Academy of American Poets Prize
Julia Harris, “A Missing Face”
University of Notre Dame
The Billy Maich Award
Mikko Harvey, “The Critic Falls in Love”
Ohio State University
Arthur Rense Prize
Kelsey Hatch, “Excavations”
St. Lawrence University
James Ligon Price III Memorial Prize in Poetry
Madalena Henning, “Background Check”
Wesleyan University
Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Madeline Herrmann, “Three Odes to the Deep Atlantic”
Macalester College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Markeisha Hill, “Womanish”
Wesleyan University
Sarah Hannah Memorial Prize
Zoe Hitzig, “Pernkopf Atlas”
Harvard University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Allyson Hoffman, “Lingering in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Park”
Hope College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Emily Hopkins, “Antitussive”
University of Pittsburgh
Academy of American Poets Prize
Su Hwang, “An Elegy”
University of Minnesota
James Wright Prize in Poetry
Kindall Jackson, “For Josie”
Sam Houston State University
The William C. Weathers Memorial Prize
Doug Janicke, “Absence of All Color”
Rockford University
Colleen Holmbeck Poetry Prize
Ariel Jones, “For S.”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ruth Llewellyn Baird Prize
Ashley Jones, “Viewing a KKK Uniform at the Civil Rights Institute”
Florida International University
Christopher F. Kelly Award for Poetry
Margaret Lacey Jones, “Playing Liturgy:: terzanelle”
Dartmouth College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Sarah Joseph-Alexandre, “alternate realities (didn’t state)"
Miami-Dade Community College
Fred Shaw Poetry Prize
Beata Kasiarz, from “things look soft from a distance”
Brown University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Savannah Kater
Stetson University
The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Caroline Kenworthy, “To chlorophyll, refineries, coal, furnaces beneath early skyscrapers, fossils”
Sarah Lawrence College (undergraduate)
Harold Taylor Prize
Parveen Keynejad, “Grief at Golden Age”
Hunter College
Catalina Páez & Seumas MacManus Award
Ryan Kingsley, “Ceremony”
College of the Holy Cross
Dominick Lepore Poetry Award
Zoe Koenig, “burying the illness corpse”
Beloit College
Beloit Poetry Journal Prize
Abigail Koontz, “Taji, Iraq: 2004”
Messiah College
Carrie A. Guhl Poetry Prize
Emily Kramer, “Hiding Places”
Pennsylvania State Harrisburg
Staff Sergeant Robert J. Miller Prize
Dana Kroos, “How to Understand Acoustics”
University of Houston
Brazos Bookstore/ Academy of American Poets Prize
Erica Kucharski, “A Perfect Miss”
Illinois Wesleyan University
Arthur W. Hinners & Louise Hinners Sipfle Prize
Benjamin Kuzava, “Introducing Death to Your Autistic Brother”
Central Michigan University
Eric Torgersen Poetry Prize
Kien Lam, “Big Bang Theory”
Indiana University
The Vera Meyer Strube Poetry Prize
Kathleen Langyher, “From Nothing to Nothing”
Naropa University
The Margaret Randall Academy of American Poets Prize
T.m. Lawson, “Songbird Cannibalism”
University of California, Los Angeles
Fred and Edith Herman Memorial Prize
Tucker Leighty-Phillips, “Your Heart is a Parking Meter”
Harrisburg Area Community College
Dale T. Guhl Memorial Prize
Nate Levine, “Beginnings”
University of Mary Washington
Academy of American Poets Prize
Allison Linville, “Which Is To Say”
University of Montana
Academy of American Poets Prize
Arielle Lipset, “Poppy”
Franklin & Marshall College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Rebecca Liu, “A Motet of Commons”
University of Texas at Austin
Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize
Hannah Lookey, “Get Thee to the Gunnery”
Reed College
The Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Prize
Dana Lotito, “Oświęcim, Poland; 2000”
College of William & Mary
Academy of American Poets Prize
Renne Lu, “To Know”
Wellesley College
Nevin Prize
August Lysy, “Faith in Us Flounders”
Shimer College
Ruth Cooley Poetry Prize
Alexa Mallarnee, “Summer Tramp”
Portland State University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Ashely Mallick, “When the adults go out to smoke my uncle tells stories”
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (undergraduate)
Academy of American Poets Prize
Avery Malone, “Break”
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
The Colleen M. Brown Prize
Hana Mansur, “Boys”
Bergen Community College
The Steven W. Chung Poetry Prize
Francisco Marquez, “Caravaggio Remembering Buoneri, His Lover, Upon Looking at ‘David with the Head of Goliath'"
Florida State University (undergraduate)
John MacKay Shaw Award
Ian Mathes, “A Day in June”
Wayne State University
John Clare Prize
Brooke McKinney, “Wild Misery”
Valdosta State University
Academy of American Poets Prize
M’Bilia Meekers, “Purging”
Tulane University
Anselle M. Larson / Academy of American Poets Prize
Alexandra Messick-Kopel, “How can I compete?”
University of California, Berkeley
Harold Taylor Prize
Jacob Miller
Grinnell College
Prize in Memory of Lorabel Richardson
Lissa Miller, “Among the Orange Groves”
University of California, Davis
Celeste Turner Wright Poetry Prize
Ben Morris
University of North Dakota
The Thomas McGrath Prize
Teague Morris
Williams College
Bullock Poetry Prize
Jocelyn Mosman, “Your Name”
Mount Holyoke College
Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Abby E. Murray (graduate), “How to be Married After Iraq”
SUNY Binghamton
Academy of American Poets Prize
Ryan Nash, “A WAY OUT”
San Francisco State University
Harold Taylor Prize
Tennaya Nassar-Frederick, “A Poem with Women”
Bard College
The Flow Chart Foundation/Academy of American Poets Prize
Kat Neis, “Elegy for the Stone Crab”
College of Wooster
Cora Owlett Latzer Award
Forrest Nguyen
Santa Clara University
Tamara Verga Poetry Prize
Delaney Nolan, “Crucifer”
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
Harold Taylor Prize
James Orbison, “The Tub Story”
Yale University
Sean T. Lannan Poetry Prize
Maximillian Orsini, “Crossing Bourne Bridge”
Drew University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Antonina Palisano, “Weil 1943”
Boston University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Clifford Parody, “Four Months After You Gave Me The Goose Down Coat”
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Noel Callow Poetry Award
Dustin Pearson, “The Black Body Auditions for a Play”
Arizona State University
Katharine C. Turner Prize
Charles Perkins, “Dangerous and Frozen Rain”
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Anne Williams Burrus Prize in Poetry
Kelly Pieper, “Home”
University of Cincinnati (undergraduate)
Academy of American Poets Prize
Ethan Plaue
Columbia University (undergraduate)
Academy of American Poets Prize
Colin Pope
Oklahoma State University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Ted Powers, “The Past is All Over”
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Joseph Langland Prize
Ramya Ramana, “Pop Quiz for a Apologist”
St. John’s University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Will Randick, “Just As”
University of San Francisco
Academy of American Poets Prize
Justin Reed
Washington University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Katherine Reed, “Death of Duckweed”
San Jose State University
Virginia de Araujo Prize
William Repass, “Air-Strike:"
Hollins University
Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
Nick Rizzuti, “Tired as Fog”
Hofstra University
Nancy P. Schnader Award
Ashley Roach-Freiman,“what you have left”
University of Memphis
The Deborah L. Talbot Poetry Award
Melissa Rodriguez, “chéri”
Wesleyan College
George Warren Gignilliat, Jr. Poetry Prize
Helen Ross, “May You Find What You Are Looking For”
Bowdoin College
The Academy of American Poets Colette Inez Poetry Prize
John Rufo, “Notes on a Hunger Artist”
Hamilton College
Ralph and Doris Hansmann Poetry Prize
Theodore Rycroft, “El Paso”
University of Rochester
Marion Devendorf Van Laak Poetry Prize
Jamie Samdahl
Smith College
Anne Bradstreet Prize
Ashley-Luisa Santangelo, "[FRIDA]"
Millersville University
Louis Darrell Sage Poetry Prize
George Sawaya, “Apology to the Blackbird”
Sarah Lawrence College (graduate)
The John B. Santoianni Award for Excellence in Poetry
Ben Shane, “Splitting Firewood on a Winter Afternoon”
Vanderbilt University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Sara Sheiner
Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech/ Poetry Society of Virginia Prize
Victoria Shelton, “Ekphrasis of Judith”
Temple University
Albert J. Caplan Prize
Sanam Sheriff, “Maut/Moth”
Bryn Mawr College
Prize in Memory of Marie Bullock
Angela Shrader, “A Lesson in Sewing”
Marietta College
The Stephen Schwartz Prize in Poetry
Emily Skaja, “Dear Ruth”
Purdue University
The Thomas H. Scholl and Elizabeth Boyd Thompson Poetry Prize
Erin Smith, “Perfect”
Calvin College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Adriana Socoski, “Having To Be Had”
Columbia University (graduate)
Bennett Poetry Prize
Mark Sologuren, “time/Tuscany (Marko Paulo)"
New York University
Judith Lobel Arkin Poetry Prize
Tim Stafford, “The Living Dead”
California State University, Los Angeles
Henri Coulette Memorial Award
Sophia Stid, "Salton Sea”
Georgetown University
Ora Mary Phelam Poetry Prize
Samson Stilwell, “Duplex”
University of Redlands
Jean Burden Award
Alex Streim
University of Washington
Harold Taylor Prize
Anna Swisher, “Photograph of a Father”
SUNY Oswego
Academy of American Poets Prize
Courtney Faye Taylor, “Phillis Wheatley’s Benediction - Dec. 1784”
Agnes Scott College
Janef Preston Poetry Prize
Grant Taylor, “The Boozers”
Georgia Perimeter College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Hillary Thomas, “Kitchen Window Lullaby”
Shippensburg University
Laura A. Rice Poetry Prize
Tiffany Thomas, “Terminal”
Spring Hill College
Reverend Andrew C. Smith, S.J., Poetry Prize
Ela Thompson, “From Daphne to Fair Apollo”
Gettysburg College
Marion Zulauf Prize
Tifanie Thompson, “The Blue”
Piedmont College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Molly Thoms, “The bicycle was collateral damage”
Trinity College
Academy of American Poets Prize
Jessica Treijs, “What Is That”
Brooklyn College, CUNY
Burton A. Goldberg Poetry Prize
Michelle Troxclair, “Generation b. 1952-1972”
University of Nebraska, MFA
Helen W. Kenefick Poetry Prize
Adriana Ugarte, “Haw Creek”
Stetson University
The Holly M. Kimball Poetry Prize
Amanda Valdez, “Passing Orchards”
California State University, Fresno (undergraduate)
Larry Levis Memorial Prize
Natasha Vaughn, “At five years old”
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus
John & Agnes McCarten Memorial Award
Ana Velasco, “Careyes”
Pace University
David A. Bickimer—Promise of Learnings Poetry Prize
Kristi Walsh, “Daniel”
Creighton University
Oscar M. Macelliao Poetry Prize
Claire Walter, “How to Cope with Hot Flashes”
Auburn University
Robert Hughes Mount Jr. Prize in Poetry
Sara Watson, “These Are My Feelings”
University of Cincinnati (graduate)
Academy of American Poets Prize
David Weber-Schloss, “Jasper”
Tufts University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Nathan Whelan, “Codlata Fear Bocht (Or Poor Man Sleeping.” and Emily Duquette, “Odd Sister”
Old Dominion University
Academy of American Poets Prize
Taylor Weise
Valparaiso University
Vivian S. Richards Memorial Prize
Amanda Williams, “What I Need From You”
Hollins University
Gertrude Claytor Poetry Prize
P.J. Williams, “Magnesium [Mg]"
University of Alabama
Hill-Kohn Prize
Darah Wolf, “The Star by Edgar Degas”
Wilson College
The William and Ivy Saylor Prize
Tobias Wray, “Buggery”
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Edward W. Ryan Poetry Prize
Kate Wright, “Illusion”
Pennsylvania State University
Leonard Steinberg Memorial Prize
Jenny Wu, “The Churchyard”
Emory University
Academy of American Poets Prize