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
