Fifteenth Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

FIRST PLACE

HEATHER TRESELER
Postscript


SECOND PLACE

LAURA FOLEY
Amaryllis


THIRD PLACE

AVIA TADMOR
My Grandfather Delivers a Survivor’s Testimony at Yad Vashem


FINALISTS

Kim Addonizio
My Opera

J. P. Grasser
Dead Horse and Gone, the Old Verve, Gone

Emma Jaques
Aubade, with Love as a Watermelon

Jon D. Lee
Pig Shit Cannon

Anne Haven McDonnell
Inside a Lateness, a Singing under Snow

Amy Miller
The Aging Body as a Japanese Garden

Caitlin Roach
Washington

Michael O’Ryan
Horse Thief

Martha Paz-Soldan
Mestra as Translator

Pimone Triplett
At the Museum of Empress Livia’s Garden Room


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Entry Deadline: July 31, 2025.

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Entry Deadline: July 18, 2025.