2025 Nominees:

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• “Rejection Speech” by Flavian Mark Lupinetti, from The Pronunciation Part (The Poetry Box, February 2025)
• “Leaf Fall” by Carolyn Martin, from Splitting the World Open (The Poetry Box, March 2025)
• “What a performance is” by John L. Miller, from Andes (The Poetry Box, May 2025)
• “Loowitlatkla” by Christine Colasurdo from There Is Always a Volcano Before You: Poems for Mount St. Helens and the Cascade Range (The Poetry Box, November 2025)
• “Sacred Ground” by Kristin Roedell from Lessons in Buoyancy (The Poetry Box, December 2025)
• “In the Assisted Living Home” by Debbie Hall from Mixtape: Marginal States (The Poetry Box, December 2025)

We wish all of these talented poets the best of luck!

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We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2025 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February 2026. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our seventh annual contest.

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, George Bilgere!

Winners:

GRAND PRIZE
John Arthur (New Jersey) for Lucy the Elephant Wins in a Landslide
(selected by Guest Judge, George Bilgere)

EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD
Katie Dozier (Texas) for All That Glitter
(selected by Shawn Aveningo Sanders)

DESIGNER’S CHOICE AWARD
John Wojtowicz (New Jersey) for No Lightsabers in the Kitchen
(selected by Robert Sanders)

Finalists:

Lana Hechtman Ayers (Oregon) for Sky Over

Meredith Kirkwood (Oregon) for The Zero Womb

Maren O. Mitchell (Georgia) for A Letter Opener

Ralph Savarese (Iowa) for Yours by Blood

Laurel Szymkowiak (Pennsylvania) for Agnes

Evan Vandermeer (Tennessee) for Circling Back

Ellen Waterston (Oregon) for So Far as I Can Anthem

Cecilia Woloch (California) for I Spent the Summer in Chengdu

(We will be open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2026)

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2024 Nominees:

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• “Miscarriage Three” by Cathy Cain, published in The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (#14), October 2024, The Poetry Box.
• “Hungry Ghost” by Willa Schneberg, published in The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (#14), October 2024, The Poetry Box.
• “Sail On” by Linda Ferguson, published in The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (#14), October 2024, The Poetry Box.
• “Beauty Sleeping” by Kim Peter Kovac, published in A Bit Left of Straight Ahead, June 2024, The Poetry Box.
• “Rodrigo Fails to Meet the Learning Objective” by Ginny Lowe Connors, published in White Sail at Midnight, November 2024, The Poetry Box.
• “We Do This, We Do That” by Shawn Pittard, published in Witness, December 2024, The Poetry Box.

We wish all of these talented poets the best of luck!

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We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2024 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February 2025. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our seventh annual contest.

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Donna Hilbert!

Winners:

GRAND PRIZE
Flavian Mark Lupinetti (New Mexico) for The Pronunciation Part
(selected by Guest Judge, Donna Hilbert)

EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARD
Laura Foley (New Hampshire) for Ice Cream for Lunch: A Grandparents Handbook
(selected by Shawn Aveningo Sanders)

DESIGNER’S CHOICE AWARD
Allison Thorpe (Kentucky) for A Girl, Her Slipper and Yesterday’s Rainbow
(selected by Robert Sanders)

Finalists:

Amy Baskin (Oregon) for Skull

Abby Caplin (California) for Blue Marble

Meredith Kirkwood (Oregon) for Alertness Seems Called For

Robin Michel (California)
for Crossing a Threshold into the Marriage of Our Two Selves

Gus Peterson (Maine) for Undiagnosed

Shawn Pittard (California) for Witness

Stephen Reilly (Florida) for Widower

Trinity Tibe (Georgia)

for My Blood Must Have Something to Do with Me

(We will be open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2024)

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A Journal of Poetry & Art—

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is an evocative poetry collection that explores love, loss, and the search for belonging. From tiny New York apartments to intimate moments in the desert, this collection captures the essence of human connection and celebrates the unyielding strength found in moments of vulnerability.

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“Her studious-but-playful gaze falls on what she loves and lights it up: mule deer antlers are ‘moon-silvered,’ a coyote’s ‘well fed and swaggering like a senator,’ bluebird eggs seem ‘Insubstantial as rings of blue smoke suspended in air.’ But Levinson understands that we are finally as insubstantial as what we study; her melancholy negotiations with the fact of limit lends her seeing a poignant urgency.”

—Mark Doty, National Book Award-winning poet

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We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest.

And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Andrea Hollander!

Finalists:

The Mother/Daughter Papers by Gail Rudd Entrekin (CA)

Currents for Jellyfish by Briana Fischella (FL)

Journey of Trees by Susan Landgraf (WA)

The Last Angels by Richard Lyons (TN)

Now Is What Matters by Janet Steward (WA)

Beguiled by Ingrid Wendt (OR)

The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dogen by James K. Zimmerman (NY)

Rescue Dogs by Fred Zirm (MD)

(We will be open again for contest submissions in Feb, 2024)

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2023 Nominees:

• “Stars” by Andrea Hollander, published in The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (#13), released in October 2023, by The Poetry Box.
• “Mending” by Melanie Green, published in The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (#13), released in October 2023, by The Poetry Box.
• “The Rule of Dew & Tiny Parachutes” by Lana Hechtman Ayers, published in When All Else Fails, released in May 2023, by The Poetry Box.
• “Beyond Gravitas” by Jarold Ramsey, published in Jump Straight Up, released in November 2023, by The Poetry Box.
• “It Really Is Just about the Maquillage, I Think” by Amelia Díaz Ettinger, published in Self Dissection, released in September 2023, by The Poetry Box.
• “Listening for the Rain” by Wendy Erd, published in It’s a Crooked Road, but Not Far, to the House of Flowers, released in November 2023, by The Poetry Box.

We wish all of these talented poets the best of luck!

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by Steven Croft

explores the natural beauty in his birth-state of Georgia, where his poems bring the reader to the lush coastal landscapes of the Barrier Islands and the nurturing comforts of Southern living.

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