Poetry Window Open Call: 2025 Winners

The Poetry Society invited poets to submit a previously unpublished poem no longer than 10 lines to be installed for a month in the window of our storefront office on Smith Street in Brooklyn, New York. The storefront window has featured poems by Nicole Sealey, Elizabeth Willis, Carl Phillips, Joy Harjo, Reginald Dwayne Betts, and Charles Simic, among others. Approximately 5,000 pedestrians pass by the window each day.

The Inaugural Open Call Winners

“Angels” by Matt Broaddus
“Official Pajamas” by Julie Choffel
“The Green” by Gilad Jaffe
“Your Father Came from a Movie” by Rena J. Mosteirin
“Suiyōbi” by Sophia Terazawa

Matt Broaddus is the author of the poetry collections Deeper the Tropics (BUNNY Presse, 2024) and Temporal Anomalies (Ricochet Editions, 2023). His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Annulet, mercury firs, and The Paris Review. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and New York University. He lives in Englewood, Colorado.

Julie Choffel is the author of Dear Wallace, The Hello Delay, and a handful of chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including New England Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Orion, Conduit, New American Writing, and the tiny. Originally from Texas, she teaches at the University of Connecticut and lives near Hartford with her partner and their three children.

Gilad Jaffe’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Harvard Review, Poetry Daily, and The Yale Review, among others. He has taught Creative Writing at both the University of Iowa and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, and currently serves as a Senior Editor at Conjunctions.

Rena J. Mosteirin’s latest poetry collection Disaster Tourism is coming out from BOA Editions this October. She teaches at Dartmouth College and owns Left Bank Books, a used bookstore in Hanover, NH.

Sophia Terazawa's third poetry book, Oracular Maladies, is forthcoming with Noemi Press in 2026