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2025 Long Poem Prize Shortlist

We're pleased to announce the shortlist for our 2025 Long Poem Prize!
The two winners, who will each receive $1,250 and publication in our summer issue, will be announced next Friday, April 11 on our website and social media.

Jeremy Audet, "Whale Fall"
Hamish Ballantyne, "Boomtimes"
Dominique Bernier-Cormier, "Any Less Alive"
Morteza Dehghani, "Autumn Translation Pastoral"
Matthew Gwathmey, "Posthuman Slow Songs"
Sean Howard, "Listenings (from Etal Adnan's 'To Be in a Time of War')"
Monica Kim, "(Incomplete) List of Korean Queer History; BURNING HAIBUN #3: THE LEAVING IS NEVER LINEAR; (Incomplete) List of Korean Women Workers' History"
Ayaz Muratoglu, "The Cloud and the Lilac"
Natalie Rice, "Eel Weir"

A special thank you to judges Klara du Plessis and Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi.

Thank you to everyone who entered the contest, and congrats to those shortlisted!