Nominations

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‘Best New Poets’ Nominees, 2022

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura
“Tokyo Army Hospital, 1957”

Elizabeth Catanese
“Salvation Army”

Michelle Reale
“Flare, 1972”

Justin Wymer
“The Mystic in the Shed”

Lisa del Rosso
“By Choice”

Audrey Gidman
“Old News”

Connie Millard
“Pipe Dreams”

Kenneth Pobo
“Dulcet Tones in a Diner Three Days Before
It Burns Down Under Suspicious Circumstances”

Kate Sanchez
“Sunday Morning: Lloren Torres”

Makshya Tolbert
“We Walk Toward Day Nine or Not”