20th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize

Winner

Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Might Could

 

Finalists

(in name order)

Joseph Cuomo, What I Didn’t See

Edison Dupree, Miracle Soap

Jalen Eutsey, Dinner and a Movie

Angelo Mao, A White Horse Is Not a Horse

Rod Moore, Hole and Ghost

Christopher Nelson, Windshear

LaWanda Walters, How We ReallyLive

Timothy Yu, 77 Chinese Dreams

 

Semi-finalists

(in name order)

John Coleman Bennett, Taghairm

Deborah Bernhardt, Nonlocal

Dargie Bowersock, Variations on a Road

David Gorin, A Pale Green Star

Nathan Parker, Dry Gulch

Luke Patterson, Medic

T.R. Poulson, Birds Never Nest Here

Matthew Zhao, King of Song