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 were this year. It’s always such an incredible and privileged challenge to choose a winner from a pool of hundreds of important voices, but we’re close to making that decision. The winner will be announced soon. Stay tuned.
Finalists:
A.M. Goodhart — Infernal Dance
Steve Castro — Conejo y Gallo
Vi Khi Nao — The Figurative Narrations of Odd Nerdstrum
Liane Strauss — The Delirium Team
Bryan D. Price — More Poems About Birds
Tyler Dunston— A Field of Green Lights
Mermer Blakeslee — deep is the skin of the world
William Benton — Thirst
Kelly R. Samuels — Conveyance
Camille Carter — Chinook
Gary McDowell — Marriage And
David Moolten — Infernal Dance
Patty Seyburn—Inventing the Ladle
Norman Minnick — Amusing Injuries
Ariel Joy So — My Ghost
John Glowney — angle of splinter
Randall Watson — In the Flower’s Throat, The History of Bees
Elizabeth Robin — Home is Where
John Nieves — Songs for the Failing Light
elin o’Hara slavick — Lung Maps of U
Malcolm Farley — Wissahickon Formation
Eric Roy — American Distance
Lucas Cardona — Brainland
Stephanie Heit — Every Horizon Turns Liquid
Ben Pease — Werring
Seth Rosenbloom — Like Angels
Amanda Nicole Corbin — a say in patience
Adam Edelman — Drift Signals
Lisa Stice — Coarse Lessons
Devan Murphy — A Dove, Breathing Fire
Daniel Biegelson — Tremblewood
Steve Myers — Sweet Light
Steven Priest — Miniseries
Sandy Solomon — Flying into a Hurricane
Ashley Seitz Kramer — Proxemics
Tim Mayo — Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster
Alexis Ivy — That Ribbon of Highway
Peter Kline — Protagonist
Lorene Delany-Ullman — The Grief Contest
Adam Spiegelman — Turned on the spit
Gerald Yelle — Teeth Marks
Julie Choffel — This Close
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