With much excitement, we announce the winners and finalists of our 2022 Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize. The poems we received for our contest were exceptional (as always) and our judge Grace Cavalieri picked amazing poems that we are looking forward to sharing with you in our Spring/Summer 2021 issue Vol. 32.1. In the meantime, you can check out the winners and finalists below.

Winner

ravel by Lisa Cantwell

Honorable Mention

Pantoum for What Remains From Minidoka by John Sibley Williams

Finalists

Pupil Paralyzed by P. Hodges Adams
Where the Redness Lives by Brenda Beardsley
Aubade in a Time of Stillness by Christian J. Collier
Damage by Sally Lipton Derringer
Spanish Web by Rebecca Foust
For Both Father and Frida by Kristina Moriconi
In Which I Consider Myself an Old Woman by Barbara Mossberg
The Vine by Alicia Rebecca Myers
Oral Presentation by Sarah Sousa
Papa Explains Why He Didn’t Go to the Vietnam Sit-in the Night They Dragged His Friends to Montgomery County Jail by Ariana Yeatts-Lonske

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