42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2023) Finalist List (with thanks to all our contestants and all our editors). This list is longer than it has ever been. There were simply more great mss. this year. Winner will be announced in about two weeks:
Rebecca Reynolds – Otherly
Talia Bloch – How We Keep Each Other Company
Corrie Williamson – Your Mother’s Bear Gun
Angela Sorby – Reading Trouble
Eric Roy – American Distance
Tom McCauley – First Date with the Moon
John Tobin – All My Gods are Dead
Michael Tod Edgerton – Shelter Shutter Swerve
Elizabeth Hutton – I Didn’t Know How Plastic
Hannah Loeb – Cul de Sac
Susan Coronel – The Only Real Mother
Greg Lawless – Discovery
Eric Steineger – Cast
Ann Lovett – The Community of Rain
Gary McDowell- Marriage And
Rebecca Myers – Warble
Jeanne Marie Beaumont – Lessons with Scissors
Daniel Beigelson – ritual jukebox
Jack Christian – In Plain Air
Grant Clauser – Temporary Shelters
Adam LeFevre – The World is Full of Gods
Evan Nicholls – Easy Tiger
Mark Neely – Late Stage
Rebecca Lilly – Night Westerly
Peter Grandbois — Sometimes I Forget How to Be a Person
Sara Wallace – Take That Unmarked Exit
Leona Sevick – The Bamboo Wife
Zoodikers: A Bestiary – Flower Conroy
Fables – Bruce Bond
David James — Singing Like I have All the Time
Danielle Hanson – The Night is What It Eats
Laura Minor- Carpet Shark
Bern Mulvey – Found
Cynie Cory – Sonnet Being Buried
Eva Heisler – The Sea and The Residency Permit
Jean Gallagher – River of This
Phillip Sterling – Equilibria
Lorene Delany -Ullman- The Grief Contest
Jeanne Morel – Scattering Particles
Mary Ann Samyn – Eden in Every Direction
Natalie Solmer – Water Castle
Craig Cotter – That Night
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