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2024 Poetry Contest Finalists and Winners

Past Judges and Award Winners

2012

Louise Bogan Award: Clay by David Groff, selected by Michael Waters

Trio Award: Gold Passage by Iris Jamahl Dunkle, selected by Ross Gay

 

2013

Louise Bogan Award: Flight of August by Lawrence Eby, selected by Joan Houlihand

Trio Award: The Consolations by John W. Evans, selected by Mihaela Moscaliuc

 

2014

Louise Bogan Award: The Alchemy of My Mortal Form by Sandy Longhorn, selected by Carol Frost

Trio Award: What the Night Numbered by Bradford Tice, selected by Peter Campion

 

2015

Louise Bogan Award: Bone Music by Stephen Cramer, selected by Kimiko Hahn

Trio Award: Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine, and Other Ways to Escape a Plague by Carolyn Hembree, selected by Neil Shepard

 

2016

Louise Bogan Award: The Short Drive Home by Joe Osterhaus, selected by Chard DeNiord

Trio Award: Dark Tussock Moth by Mary Cisper, selected by Bhisham Bherwani

2017

Louise Bogan Award: Two-Towns Over by Darren C. Demaree, selected by Campbell McGrath

Trio Award: Cleave by Pamela Johnson Parker, selected by Jennifer Barber

2018

Louise Bogan Award: Waiting for the Wreck to Burn by Michele Battiste, selected by Jeff Friedman

Trio Award: My Afmerica by Artress Bethany White, selected by Sun Yung Shin 신 선 영

2020

Louise Bogan Award: Sweet Beast by Gabriella R. Tallmadge, selected by Sandy Longhorn

Trio Award: Song Box by Kirk Wilson, selected by Malena Mörling

 

2021

Louise Bogan Award: Bloomer by Jessica Hincapie, selected by LeeAnn Roripaugh

Trio Award: The Fallow by Megan Neville, selected by Stephen Healey

 

2022

Louise Bogan Award:  States of Arousal by Sunshine O'Donnell, selected by Ed Bok Lee

Trio Award: The Fight by Jennifer Manthey, selected by Aileen Cassinetto

 

2023

Louise Bogan Award: Dressing the Bear by Susan L Leary, selected by Kimberly Blaeser

Trio Award: Coachella Elegy by Christian Gullette, selected by Steve Bellin Oka

Aurora Polaris Award: Lost Found Kept: A Memoir, selected by Trio House Press Editors

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