42 Miles Press Poetry Award (2024) Finalist List (with thanks to all our contestants and all our editors). This list is long because there is so much strong work. It’s a real challenge choosing a winner from a pool of so many fine poets. Stay tuned. Winner will be announced in about two weeks:
42 Miles Finalist List 2024
Aimee Noel: Continue as Guest
Judy Ireland: How to Drag the River for Your Own Body
Dana Jaye Cadman: Nova
Kai-Lilly Karpman: The Life Cycle of Cruelty
Michelle Alexander: Mistook for Language
Justin Hunt: Requiem in Wide-Open Minor
Patty Seyburn: Amulet, Cruller, Pelican, Kumquat
Jennifer S Flescher: You Will Not be in My Obituary
Steve Langan: Wash N Fold
Lesle Lewis: Wolf
Dalton Day: Our Immoveable Error
Joseph Goosey: Climate Denial for Lovers
Ned Balbo: Oblivion’s Heros
Liza Wolf-Francis: Body Cartography
C. Mikal Oness: Works and Days
Sarah Elkins: A Suggestion of Fishes
Kevin Clark: Beyond Reach
Maureen Mulhern: Covenant
Emily Banks: Doll Fire
Mary Ardery: Vigil
David Hopes: North-flowing River
Babette Cieskowski: Blood in the Garden
Arthur Vogelsang: Smooth Side, Rough Side
Talia Bloch: How We Keep Each Other Company
bill rector: Windsock After a Rocket
John Tobin: Willowwacks
Edison Dupree: Miracle Soap
Bruce Bond: Fathom
Matthew Valades: Animosity Garden
Kate Northrup: As for the Day after Tomorrow, This Is the Day after Tomorrow
Gigi Marks: Wake robin
Ruth Williams: Projective Force
Philip Sterling: Words Frequently Confused
Daniel Coudriet: Museum People
Ben Pease: Death Refractions
Lane Falcon: Deep, Blue Odds
Nicelle Davis: How Does Your Garden Grow?
Ashley Kunsa: The Middle Deep
Jerome Gagnon: The Light that Shines in Everything: New and Selected Poems
Andrew Cox: My National Anthem is an Elegy
Elizabeth Knapp: Happy Monday from My Skull
Peter Krumbach: Yes and Nightshirt
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