Finalists
Chloe Honum
Andrew Seguin
Selected by Julie Carr
Awards
The Goddess of Cleaning
Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Selected by Ray Gonzalez
an excerpt from To Red Dust (II)
JinJin Xu
Teri Ellen Cross Davis
Julia Guez
Helena Mesa
Elizabeth Scanlon
Selected by Carrie Fountain
Reading Emily Dickinson in Amherst Massachusetts
David Keplinger
Selected by Jos Charles
The Empire of Light
Michael Dumanis
Selected by Hanif Abdurraqib
Migration Patterns
Melissa Studdard
Selected by Ruth Ellen Kocher
At Times My Body Leans Toward Loss
Kelli Russell Agodon
Michael Dumanis
Selected by Ilya Kaminsky
ONCE, I PRAYED IN THE WATER
Sara Henning
Selected by Khaled Mattawa
Selected by Patricia Spears Jones
Rae Armantrout
Jacqueline Jones LaMon
selected by Lynn Melnick
Interior with a Woman Peeling Oranges, Snapping Beans
Molly Spencer
Benjamin Paloff
Kevin Prufer
Selected by Maggie Smith
All Stars Are Lights, Not All Lights Are Stars
Brian Tierney
Catherine Imbriglio
Cate Lycurgus
Selected by Daniel Borzutzky
Fourth of July
Elizabeth Knapp
Selected by Airea D. Matthews
As a Human Being
Jericho Brown
Catherine Imbriglio
Christina Pugh
Selected by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Beth Bachmann
Kai Carlson-Wee
Aidan Forster
Brian Tierney
Selected by Victoria Redel
Dress (Aurora Borealis)
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Selected by Francisco Aragón
Selected by Donald Revell
an excerpt from 903
Heather Altfeld
Elizabeth Jacobson
Taije Silverman
Selected by Fred Marchant
The Porch Roof's Sky Blue Ceiling
Kathleen Winter
Selected by Carmen Giménez Smith
Selected by Laura Kasischke
Devotional (after a Muslim Prayer)
Philip Metres
Selected by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
I Love You More than All the Windows in New York City
Jessica Greenbaum
Michael Dumanis
James Haug
Selected by Elaine Equi
Selected by Yona Harvey
Selected by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Look for Raven Pairs Flying in a Pre-Mating Ritual
Karen Skolfield
J. C. Todd
Jonathan Weinert
Selected by Alan Shapiro
Orycteropus afer (Antbear), Kalahari
Sandra Meek
Adam O. Davis
Sara Henning
Selected by Fady Joudah
The People Who Feel No Pain
Jenny Browne
Dean Rader
Rob Schlegel
Mitchell Untch
Selected by Rachel Zucker
We grew up hearing war stories
Gary Young
Meena Alexander
Jane Wong
Selected by Jessica Greenbaum
Vikings Did Not Have Horns On Their Helmets
Ted Mathys
Selected by Alice Notely
Poem Half Aubade Half Nocturne
Micah Bateman
Bruce Bond
Andrea Carter Brown
Selected by Carolyne Wright
Because I didn't speak Japanese
Gary Young
Bruce Bond
Diana Khoi Nguyen
Selected by Patricia Smith
Selected by Phillip Levin
A GROUNDING FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS
Jehanne Dubrow
Sophie Cabot Black
Wayne Miller
Kevin Prufer
Selected by Claudia Rankine
Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl
Lise Goett
Selected by Toi Derricotte
THE CENTER OF WORTHWHILE THINGS
Darcie Dennigan
Heather Green
Peter Jay Shippy
Selected by Susan Wheeler
THE BOOK OF MATTHEW
Kerri Webster
Selected by Nikky Finney
Lily Brown
Liz Countryman
Allison Benis White
Selected by Elizabeth Willis
AT THE IMPERIAL PALACE
Suji Kwock Kim
Hadara Bar-Nadav
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Leslie Williams
Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
IN THE BEGINNING
Kathy Nilsson
Selected by Timothy Donnelly
LOVE CONTINUES IN THE BODY
Marlene Rosen Fine
Selected by Marie Ponsot
Selected by Forrest Gander
Selected by Meghan O'Rourke
Selected by Julian Felipe Herrera
JURAMENTADO
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Selected by Marilyn Hacker
Cochiti Lake, 1989
Sawnie Morris
Selected by Hettie Jones
IN ME AS THE SWANS
Leslie Williams
Selected by David St. John
THE MISSING MAN
Richard Robbins
Selected by Graham Foust
FROM THE NINE SENSES
Melissa Kwasny
Selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
PARLIAMENT PASSES THE INCLOSING LANDS ACT, 1809
Susan Kinsolving
Selected by Lucie Brock-Broido
A PRAYER (O CITY— )
Wayne Miller
Selected by Elizabeth Alexander
PICTOGRAPH: BIZARRE ANTHROPOMORPH, OFTEN WITH INTERIOR BODY DECORATIONS
Melissa Kwasny
Selected by Ed Roberson
ASSEMBLED FROM THE SCRIPT: BATAILLE
Rusty Morrison
Selected by John Yau
THE TAILOR OF AL HAMDANIYAH
Eliot Khalil Wilson
Selected by Henri Cole
LIGHTNING EASED: DREAM
Joanie Mackowski
Selected by Donald Revell
Selected by Norma Cole
[THE CHILD"S CRY IS A LIGHT THAT COMES ON IN THE HOUSE,]
Wayne Miller
Selected by Elizabeth Macklin
Selected by Timothy Donnelly
Selected by Dean Young
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET
Theresa Sotto
Selected by Prageeta Sharma
THE BEAN FIELD
Jocelyn Emerson
Selected by Annie Finch
NORTHWEST PASSAGE
James Richardson
Selected by Matthea Harvey
FROM JOURNAL: RAI'UT COMA WARD, TEL AVIV-YAFFO, JULY 2003
Yerra Sugarman
Selected by Michael Palmer
AMERICAN NOCTURNE
Wayne Miller
Selected by Tracy K. Smith
PLEASE ADVICE STOP
Rusty Morrison
Selected by Susan Howe
THE ASSASSINATION LECTURE
Wayne Miller
Selected by Eleni Sikelianos
FRANKENSTEIN'S FLOWERS
Charlene Fix
Selected by Eleanor Wilner
IN THE ANATOMICAL MUSEUM
Nicole Cooley
Selected by Gerald Stern
FROM SKY CLUTCHES ANY STRONG BEAT
Rusty Morrison
Selected by Cal Bedient
Selected by Toi Derricotte
Selected by Grace Schulman
WHO IS JOSQUIN DES PREZ
G. C. Waldrep
Selected by Forrest Gander
Selected by Marie Howe
Selected by Jean Valentine
DICKINSON'S DAY LILIES
Lee Upton
Selected by Mark Doty
Every Apple, Every Dreamer, Every Prime
G. C. Waldrep
Selected by Alice Notley
AND THOUGH SHE BE BUT LITTLE, SHE IS FIERCE
Lee Upton
Selected by Susan Wheeler
THE BOOK OF PROPS
Wayne Miller
Selected by Vijay Seshadri
Selected by Fanny Howe
Selected by Sharon Olds
LAMENTATION
Jason Schneiderman
Selected by Jane Mead
POSTCARDS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TABLE
Fritz Ward
Selected by Susan Stewart
ascension in the initial v
Carol Ciavonne
Selected by D. A. Powell
Selected by Terrance Hayes
Selected by Jane Hirschfield
Selected by Tory Dent
THE SHADOW BENEATH MY CORPSE IS ALWAYS
John McKernan
Selected by Linda Gregg
Selected by Marilyn Chin
Selected by Katha Pollitt
Selected by Caroline Knox
OLD GIRL: SELF-PORTRAIT IN WOOL
Susan Terris
Selected by Sonia Sanchez
TRISTAN & ISOLDE: THE 1981 SEATTLE OPERA POSTER
John Glowney
HISTORY OF EXPRESSION
Rusty Morrison
Selected by Ron Padgett
THE BEAUTY ZONE
Mary Ann Samyn
Selected by Alice Fulton
Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum
Selected by Mark Levine
PICKING UP A JOB APPLICATION
Minne Bruce Pratt
Selected by Cornelius Eady
Selected by C. D. Wright
Selected by Jill Bialosky
THIS SENTENCE
Margo Berdeshevsky
Selected by Marie Ponsot