42 Miles Press

Poetry for the Coming Ice Age

WINNER ANNOUNCED: 2025
42 MILES PRESS POETRY AWARD
Steve Castro

We Are Excited to Announce…February 1, 2026
Submissions For The 2025 42 Miles Press Poetry Award Are Now Open! The 42 Miles Press Poetry Award was created in an effort to bring urgent and original voices to the poetry reading public. The prize is offered annually to any poet writing in English, including international poets, poets who have never published a full-length… Read more: We Are Excited to Announce…
Steve Castro Wins the 2025 42 Miles Press Poetry AwardJanuary 6, 2026
We are excited to announce Steve Castro‘s poetry collection, Conejo y Gallo, has been selected as the winning manuscript for this year’s 42 Miles Press Poetry Award! Please join us in congratulating Steve on this achievement. Steve’s book will appear in the fall of 2027, along with a public reading at Indiana University South Bend.… Read more: Steve Castro Wins the 2025 42 Miles Press Poetry Award
The 42 Miles Press Poetry Award: 2025 Finalists:December 15, 2025
We’re beyond excited to announce the 2025 finalists of The 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. We’d like to extend our congratulations to our finalists and deep gratitude to everyone who shared their work with us! It was an honor to read each manuscript and we were moved, beyond expectation, by how powerful the poetry collections… Read more: The 42 Miles Press Poetry Award: 2025 Finalists: