Eleventh Annual Poetry Contest Winners

Narrative congratulates the winners and finalists.

FIRST PLACE

HANNAH PERRIN KING
Addendum and Other Poems


SECOND PLACE

GBENGA ADESINA
I Carried My Father Across the Sea


THIRD PLACE

REBEKAH DENISON HEWITT
Karyotype and Other Poems


FINALISTS

Sarah Burke
Break Room

Armen Davoudian
Holy Defense and Other Poems

Robert Farrell
If the River Was Whiskey, If I Was a Duck

J. P. Grasser
Another Pastoral

Elizabeth Hoover
The Archive Is All in Present Tense and Other Poems

C. X. Hua
Lilacs

Kira Jan
North to Natoma and Other Poems

A. D. Lauren-Abunassar
Harvest and Between Hospital Visiting Hours

Ae Hee Lee
Narcissus

Lee Colin Thomas
Cooking Pasta for My Parents


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