We would like to say THANK YOU to everyone that submitted a manuscript this year. The winner will be announced soon. The pandemic has interrupted the usual flow of the process, so thank you for your patience while we decide on the winning manuscript.
These are the poets/manuscripts that made it to the final round of decisioning, listed in no particular order:
Peep / Danielle Blau
Future Symptoms / A. Molotkov
Ghosts of the Permian Seas / Danielle Dubrasky
Tracey Emin’s Tent / Jake Bauer
Bees in the Fire / Fay Dillof
Still Life with White / Holly Karapetkova
Freak Lip: an Epistolary / Julia Cohen
Into The The / Robin Reagler
Pair Trawl and Dredge / David Moody
Ticker / Mark Neely
If You Don’t Want to Bring the Body Into This / Donna Spruiit-Metz
green / Audrey Colasanti
Philomel, Whose Reputation Precedes Her / Ashley Danielle Ryle
Man Versus Bird / Paul-Victor Winters
Estuary / Jeremy Voigt
My National Anthem is an Elegy / Andrew Cox
Turkey Vulture / Zachary Lundgren
A Day at the Gene Pool / Jaimee Kuperman
How will the robots kill themselves / Jason Morphew
And the World Doesn’t End with Ashes and Flames but with Lack / Jade Ramsey
Flowers as Mind Control / Laura Minor
Swiitch / Freesia McKee
Last Night I Aged a Hundred Years / Peter Grandbois
Last Known Address / Jane Medved
The Dream Protects the Dreamer / Ryan Teitman
Arrangements in a System of Pointing / Matt McBride
Everything is Liquid / Sharon White
Portable City / Karen Kovacik
Oops Sorry I / Wes Civilz
The Pocket Oracle / Sharon Dolin
The Great Outdoors / Joshua Corey
Means to be Lucky / Annie Kantar
Empty Book / Emma Winsor Wood
Preferred Internal Landscape / Emma Winsor Wood
The Johnson Poems Heart Attack Geological Survey / John Whalen
Liam Powell / No Action Alternative
Gestures / Joshua Boettiger