We are excited to announce the winners and finalists of our 2021 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize. The poems we receive for our contest were exceptional (as always) and our judge Carl Phillips picked amazing poems that we are looking forward to sharing with you in our Spring/Summer 2021 issue Vol. 32.1. In the mean time, you can check out the winners and finalists below.

Winner

Hold Tight by John Okrent

Honorable Mention

Disaster A/Version Re/Vision by Margaret Ray

Finalists

Voyeurs by Joshua Bottiger
A List of People Who Did Not Kill Me by Tianna Bratcher
Tower Block Twelve by Elena Croitoru
Mother and Son as Oyakodon II by Michael Frazier
Abecedarian on Hunger by Naomi Ling
True Story by Chloe Martinez
Cicadas by Saudamini Siegrist
My Mother’s House by Isabelle Walker
Back to the Body by Alyson Weinberg
Also Be Lost by Kelleen Zubick

Thank you to everyone who sent us their work! And a huge thank you to our judge Carl Phillips!