The winners
a short list
Long list
Winners:
Here are 10 winners, selected by referee Billy Collins, which will be published inFish anthology 2023.
The anthology will be released as part ofWest Cork Literary Festival, (Marine Hotel, Bantry, West Cork - Tuesday, July 11 - 18h) Welcome all!
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Billy Collins
The comments on the three winning songs are fromBilly Collins(below), whom we sincerely thank you for giving your time and experience to judge the prize.
Congratulations to these ten poets, as well as to whose poems they entered and spilled the list. The total number of applications was 2348.
More about the 10 winning poets(connection).
Ten winners:
FIRST
SCENA BEZ Winifred Hughes
This song is a subtle elegy that uses a famous scene in a rural courtyard to evoke the absence of a loved one. Flora and flora are shown up close because nothing has changed, except for a terrible sense of absence, creating a tangible separation on this side of the window.-Billy Collins
OTHER
Vectors in the Mary O'Donnell cable
Here the difficult subject of the forces that denied girls an education in Afghanistan is approached from an angle in which the poet ingeniously blends the language of science with the plight of young students to form a kind of mathematics of intolerance. complimentary. - Billy Collins
THE THIRD
Luis A. Igloria Extinction
A poem with a plan of movement, oscillating from Judas the goat to Darwin the dying dog and ending with his own dead, lingering and returning. landing then in his experience with mortality. A poem with many interests, including the reader.- Billy Collins
Slow confessed(in no private order):
roseta gravel
Author Tania Dain
NASCAN
OD Sharon Black
emotions
Steph Ellen Feeney
I explain the trip to my son
Por Peter Borchers
Park Protokol
Scott Renzoni
No items match your search
od Catherine Spooner
Spoons
Daniel Lusk
A LITTLE ABOUT THE WINNERS
Winifred Hughesis an academic and active birder based in Princeton, NJ. She is the author of two books, as well as poems in scattered magazines, and is currently a board member of two local environmental organizations and teaches courses in nature writing and ecopoetry. When she's not actually writing songs, she can be found leading birding walks and poking around the local swamps or hanging out with her two adult children.
Mary O'Donnellshe has published seventeen books since 1990. She was named Poet Laureate of Naas, Co Kildare during 2022. Her eighth collection of poetry is 'Massacre of the Birds' (Salmon). The essay 'My Mother in Drumlin' Land' was included in Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction 2017 in the Best American Essays (Mariner) category. People say that she is an excellent creative writing teacher. She intends to write until she runs out of energy, which she hasn't yet. Member of Aosdán. www.maryodonnell.com
Luisa A. IgloriaShe likes to draw, binding on -hand book, experimenting collages, trying new recipes and tearing and starting knitting projects when she is not writing or teaching.He loves figs, dumplings and tango.Originally Baguio City, she lives in Norfolk, Va and teaches English and creative writing at the Old Dominion University MFA Creative Writing Program.Luisa is the 20th Laureate poet of the Virginia community (2020-22), emerite.www.luisaigloria.com
Tania DainShe spent her life filling notebooks with poems, stories, novels and plays. She studied creative writing at the University of Manchester and Citilit, and is a member of the ZB writing group and the McGechie duo. a Richmond Park deer. He is currently compiling his first poetry collection, indispensable in a family of writers.
Sharon BlackIt's from Glasgow and lives in the Cévennes Mountain Remote Valley, including the London Magazinepory Awards, 2019 and 2018, spoiled in the last collection, are the last woman born on the island (Vagabond Voices, 2022.), Exploring the culture and inheritance of Scotlandand The Red House (drunk, 2022), mounted on his adopted homeland.The hereline is pindrop Press.www.sharonblack.co.uk
Steph Ellen FeeneyHe was born in Louisiani and grew up in Texas.She designed the family of fishermen, musicians and drinks, and still deals with the three.She is director of the Human Rights Committee. Today, she calls Suffolk home.
Peter Borchersis a retired teacher who has lived in South Africa, Malawi and Tasmania, as well as the UK. He started writing poetry later on, after all the craziness died down.
Scott Renzoniis a poet and actor originally from Vermont, now living in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. His work has appeared or will be published in Ekphrastic Review, the KGB Bar Online Literary Review, the Connecticut Poetry Review, the Library of Congress' "Poetry 180" website, and others. Stage work includes everything from Shakespeare to farce and even a musical or two. 4 times "Danger!" champion, Renzo also works as a bartender and bookseller.
Catherine Spoonershe has recently returned to creative writing after a long hiatus. In 2021 and 2022 she took a career break to complete an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, and in 2022 she was the recipient of the Arvon Northern Writers Award for New Writing North. In her other life, she is an academic who writes about gothic literature, culture and fashion. It is often found in black.
Daniel LuskHe is a Pushcart winner for his gender rehearsal, "Good".He is the author of eight poetry collections and other books, more recently Every Slow Thing, Farthings (Yavanika Press, Bangalore) and The Shower Scene From Hamlet.A native of the Midwest, former Pressman, sports journalist, jazz singer, cowboy, NPR teacher and commentator, Daniel lives in Vermont, USA.He is married to Irish poet Angela (Goggins) Patten.
a short listin alphabetic order.(68 songs. Total entry was 2,348)
He went to the Irish Menestrel | Maria Ana Eliza | Anderson |
My father's time | Jennifer | Shaver |
I love you! | Angela | Bee |
Respectable | Sharon | For that |
Asylum | andy | Blackford |
Mourning of history | Rosalin | Azul |
I explain the trip to my son | Peter | Borchers |
Matrad | Partridge | Boswell |
Turn | Partridge | Boswell |
Fence | Partridge | Boswell |
My dad orders four drinks at a restaurant | Jeanette | Burton |
magic tricks | Finola | Where |
Residence | Joseph | repossession man |
Sombra | Roberto | Charlton |
Graffiti | Aleksandra | Corrin-Tachibana |
Fera | elena | C ro |
Rosette Gravel | Tania | To improve |
Game.set.matched. | Deirdre | Working |
Harp and thief are sisters of wire | Jane | Edmonds |
Aubade | Birgit | Elston |
Blocked drains | Kate | Pendant |
Latin teacher | franco | Farrelly |
emotions | Stephanie | Feeney |
Fisherman's cooperative | Stephanie | feeney |
View of the spring of alligator how to sunny | Amy | Fladeboo |
For reflection | Tom | Flaherty |
Infinite curve with cheese steak | Stacey | Forbes |
Riba or | Sally | Fox |
SADNESS | Geoffrey | Porta |
Abuse | Alison | Gorman |
Urn | Alison | gorman |
Unnamed gringos drink in Santiago | jonathan | Stove |
i would do anything for love | Antonio | Hanbury-Williams |
TO PASS ALIVE | Pauline | Holdingstock |
As the goddess Artemus gave up the war | pamela | Let's go |
Scene without | Winifred | Hughes |
Extinction | Louise A. | Diloria |
While I hear NRK Klassik | Fin | Keegan |
GLAS | Debbie | Knight |
Oh no, not meat stroganoff! | Debbie | Knight |
Paragard | Madeline | Lawler |
ANAFILLAXIA ANTICIPATION | Roisin | Leggett-Bohan |
After making love with a wild coy | James | Lowell |
Spoons | Daniel | Lusk |
The things you left behind | jonathan | Marakovi |
Screening | Steve | flour |
1. let the good times roll | Karla K | Morton |
torta | marija | Mulholland |
Vector u kabul | Marija | O'Donnell |
A scene that is repeated in my thoughts in the last ten years | Lauren | O'Donovan |
POET OF AGE IN TRADE | Marija | O´Gorman |
sweet boy | Jane | Otto |
Why is the child immortal? | Cristina | Parque |
males | hour | Ref. |
Park Protokol | Scott | Renzon |
The Summer Triumvirate | Suzanne | Richardson |
Dementia is preferred | sharon | Rockman |
It was a dream? | Allen | Sombra |
Prayer | Patricia | Sheppard |
family means | Finnula | Simpson |
Elizabeth Fortescue gives her numbers to | Of | Shy |
Well -Vinding to the little lounge | Of | Shy |
No items match your search | Catarina | To harvest |
they told me | Vela | Srackandaraja |
Deep Listening of Narcissus | Jane | Thomas |
Talk about the dog | Tom | Caused |
Where is the need for love | To steal | Wallis |
In the summer | To steal | Wallis |
We appreciate your work | Suzanne | Wolbarst |
blooming forsythia | Ellen | Zhang |
Listalphabetically. (247 songs. The total intake was 2348)
Slipface | Serena | Aesto |
See you soon | Serena | Aesto |
A Drunk in the Shadow/Poet's Dance | Ivan | To change |
Procurando William Butler Yeats | Maria Ana Eliza | Anderson |
He went to Irish minstrel | Maria Anna Eliza | Anderson |
19/02/23 | Helen | Arthur |
Shoffle do Panama | Helen | Arthur |
During the third week of war | Jennifer | Shaver |
Start | Jennifer | Shaver |
My father's time | Jennifer | Shaver |
What to expect ... | Leonor | barlow |
Some questions about the death of the river | Gil | Bar |
Leaving the psychiatric ward | Angela | Bee |
I love you! | Angela | Bee |
A girl in a funeral | Solano | Bianchi |
Behind the shed | sara | Bird |
Respectable | Sharon | For that |
Asylum | Andy | Blackford |
Cafe, Heartlands | Advice | Blackledge |
The erroneous concepts of the glass | Rosalina | Azul |
Mourning of history | rosalina | Azul |
Amelia | Faye | Boland |
my dead boys | Elizabeth | Bouquet |
Heritage | Peter | Borchers |
on sunday morning | Peter | Borchers |
I explain the son of time through time | Peter | Borchers |
Aubade's Combined Eschatology | Partridge | Boswell |
Carousel enso | Partridge | Boswell |
The poet's path | Partridge | Boswell |
Supersila | Partridge | Boswell |
Turn back | Partridge | Boswell |
exhaust artist | Partridge | Boswell |
Matrad | Partridge | Boswell |
Turn | Partridge | Boswell |
Fence | Partridge | Boswell |
Quadri and Florian | Ricardo | brat |
Movies with interesting but unknown actors | Lovre | BRIDGES |
Wish | Lawrence | bridges |
ONE OF THOSE LINOLLEUM DAYS | Lovre | Bridges |
Boomerang | Curry | Brown |
My father asking for four drinks in a restaurant in | Jeanette | Burton |
Above all, I remember your hands | Liz | Byrne |
magic tricks | Finola | cahill |
Half -Node in a used plates store | jonathan | Contador |
winter: water | Charlotte | Kanegies |
Bush Lessons | Anne m | Card |
Nellie | Essential | Cassidy |
Separation line | deborah | Catesby |
Residence | Joseph | repossession man |
earth shadows | Roberto | Charlton |
Under the feet of Michelangel's David | suzanne | To suffer |
I thought you were you | Hetty | Cliss |
Lightning | bride | connolly |
Faith | Martin | Cabo |
Graffiti | Aleksandra | Corrin-Tachibana |
Enter | patrick | contrapine |
Mali construction rumors | Patrik | Mofo |
Fera | elena | C ro |
rosette gravel | Tania | To improve |
evidence | Arno | Daniel |
graduation | Roberto | Tempo |
Lago Veronica | Roberto | Tempo |
Restoration Notes | Cristina | tow |
Sonet XVII | Gary | Davis |
Game.set.matched. | Deirdre | Working |
Kudos to Alaska | Patrik | Dixon |
Swearing in a bad word | Gabriel | Donleavy |
Currently alone | debra | just |
O'Keanova | Antonio | Doyle |
Waiting at a mall cafe | Steven | Reel |
I never wanted to come to your city | chalk | Dupont |
Harp and thief are sisters of wire | Jane | Edmonds |
Spit | Jennifer | Elmore |
Aubade | Birgit | Elston |
Blocked drains | Kate | Pendant |
Latin teacher | franco | Farrelly |
emotions | Stephanie | Feeney |
Fisherman's cooperative | Stephanie | Feeney |
appetite | Deborah | Find |
Alligator watching sun bath alone | Amy | Fladeboo |
For reflection | Tom | Flaherty |
For the pink man | Essential | Flanagan |
Motherboard | Pauline | Flight |
Infinite curve with cheese steak | Stacey | Forbes |
Riba or | Sally | Fox |
A lesbian is a cathedral | Caitlin | Francis |
Repentance | Mag | Gabbert |
A bird located on the cage | Sheri | Gating |
cardinal | Kate | storm |
Swimmers: November 24 | Joan | Garcia Viltro |
SADNESS | Geoffrey | Porta |
The Curse of the Moon | Norman | Goodwin |
Abuse | Alison | Gorman |
Urn | Alison | Gorman |
Schooner | Ian | To swallow |
FAMILY OF SIBLINGS | hour | Goulding |
BOMBA | hour | Goulding |
Venice | sara | Greaves |
unfinished hypotheses | jonathan | Stove |
Unnamed gringos drink in Santiago | jonathan | Stove |
On a long drift | Dominik | Short |
offer to the bank | Joseph | Gio |
Like an outlaw | EU | Excellent |
i would do anything for love | Antonio | Hanbury-Williams |
Domingo | Maggie | Demand |
A pot of stew in the south of France, | As | refuge |
Said goodbye to his future boyfriend while still | Rachael | Hill |
the non-reduced | Belt | Hohner |
A man jumps in the hood of a car, hits | Belt | Hohner |
Sowing begins in eleven regions of Ukraine | Belt | Hohner |
TO PASS ALIVE | Pauline | Holdingstock |
a suitable acquaintance | Lana | Holman |
Sing while drowning | David | Let's go |
While holding a bouquet of Salvia | pamela | Let's go |
Mother as a metaverse | pamela | Let's go |
As the goddess Artemus gave up the war | pamela | Let's go |
scene without | Winifred | Let's go |
Extinction | Louise A. | Diloria |
Incomprehensible | Casey | Jarrin |
holidays | Litter | Jaxx |
With eyes closed | vitoria | Kaplan |
While I hear NRK Klassik | Fin | Keegan |
Perto de Rijeka | James | Kelly |
Sometimes a tornado | James | Kelly |
A large and unexpected statue of Anubis | Liz | Kendall |
Why views like flashman are | Liz | Kendall |
be a pilgrim | Liz | Kendall |
A moment on the triviality of death | Mohammed | News |
How to become a poet | Jay | Kidd |
GLAS | Debbie | Knight |
Oh no, not meat stroganoff! | Debbie | Knight |
rumors of love | Seth | Kronick |
Goodbye Lover | Francesca | Brod |
Photo near the beginning | Vanessa | Lampert |
Old times, nowadays | Suzanne | provincial count |
Paragard | Madeline | Lawler |
The lights are off | Alfie | Lee |
of | Alfie | A butterfly |
Life jacket | Roisin | Leggett-Bohan |
ANAFILLAXIA ANTICIPATION | Roisin | Leggett-Bohan |
notice the difference | Lucas | Lesovitch |
Rubbing the temple | James | Lowell |
Your roller coaster | James | Lowell |
After making love with a wild coy | James | Lowell |
Written | Joana | Lowry |
Spoons | Daniel | Lusk |
Morning tea | Michael | Lyle |
Dead your first armpits | Niamh | Maccabee |
The things you left behind | jonathan | Marakovi |
Turn | Bibi | Marti |
Litten the migraine | In the match | Martin |
Eternal return | Seán | Martin |
Birds singing | Gary | Mason |
Unpreamently goes to anon | Athens | Mayahi-Barrett |
Mass of the Innocents | Ivan | McCabe |
Like always | Oliva | McCarthy |
One hundred and eleven trees | Alison | McGuire |
Subject and verb.Object | sigh | Meehan |
Heritage | Rekha | Mehra |
Screening | Steve | flour |
Dwarf leather | Claire | Miranda Roberts |
Mariupol Mothers | Belt | Mooney |
In the stable of the horses, | Karla K | Morton |
Gratitude | Karla K | Morton |
Something to sing | Karla K | Morton |
1. let the good times roll | Karla K | Morton |
Exploded | Marija | Mulholland |
torta | Marija | Mulholland |
Midnight on the Roman line | route | Nancekivell |
A WET DAY | Madalena | Nerson Mac Namara |
breaking psalt | Helen | Newdick |
(Three songs for fish) | gloria | Nixon-John |
where children grow | William | Norris |
On the London Underground | Catarina | O'Brien |
Vector u kabul | Marija | O'Donnell |
A scene that repeats itself in my head | Lauren | O'Donovan |
gastronomic heart | Jamie | Tao 'Hacho stupac |
Go on the lips | molly | O'Mahony |
Wish | Karen | O'Maxfield |
POET OF AGE IN TRADE | Marija | O´Gorman |
sweet boy | Jane | Otto |
Why is the child immortal? | Cristina | Parque |
This is a day | lesley | Quayle |
Sea belt | Mario | Is left over |
For forgiveness | Undetermined | Rabinovitch |
still spring | Sally | Pato |
males | hour | Ref. |
Park Protokol | Scott | Renzon |
The Summer Triumvirate | Suzanne | Richardson |
In between | Sharon | Rockman |
Dementia is preferred | Sharon | Rockman |
Woman and bard | Lindsay | Rockwell |
car sale | Joe | Rogers |
Murder of Piers Gaveston in 1312 | No | Rollinson |
Who killed Carol's parrot? | appropriately | Rosa |
Recognition | Cristina | I turn around |
Neon | Paulo | saville |
Istanbul | James | Burglar |
Dream and dream and dream | Allen | Sombra |
Bottom Cliff Roadrunner | Allen | Sombra |
It was a dream? | Allen | Sombra |
I'm a cow | James | Shapiro |
ugly crackling | Shelley | Shaver |
Angel, argument, other arguments | Patricia | Sheppard |
Entrance to the Children's Home | Patricia | Sheppard |
Prayer | Patricia | SHEPPARD |
Beethoven's Spoon | Kind | Thresholds |
family means | Finnula | Simpson |
Elizabeth FortesCue presents her numbers | Of | Shy |
Well -Vinding to the little lounge | Of | Shy |
Tool box | old | Data |
Ham sandwich | Gwendolyn | Soper |
No items match your search | Catarina | To harvest |
The wheels are falling | Vela | Srackandaraja |
they told me | Vela | Srackandaraja |
Gertie wishes you a warm welcome at Woolworths & Woolco | Sherri | Stepakoff |
ghost box | Steve | Stevenson |
after cancer | Christophy | Stewart |
Tide from spring | Cave | Kamen |
I'm still researching "high operation" on Google to prove it | Sullivan | Summer |
AGM | Michael | stripes |
Deep Listening of Narcissus | Jane | Thomas |
I looked out of the window | Liz | Tivoli |
what would he do for you | Ricardo | To tighten |
Autoportre as Venice | Mixed | Treseler |
Ticket | Allen | Tullos |
black navy dog top | Barbara | Tylere |
The satisfactory smell of a busy day | Barbara | Sesame |
Talk about the dog | Tom | Caused |
Only then do you know | Wendy | Videlock |
In the wings of a song | Maggie | Lead |
my new notebook | Lucy | Wadham |
no separation | Briane | wall |
Rough or very rough | In July | Wallis |
Where is the need for love | To steal | Wallis |
In the summer | To steal | Wallis |
licked | derval | Walsh |
No MUNCH Museum | Ivan | Williams |
Michi | Ivan | Williams |
Interfere | Marko Antun | Williams |
pre-teen Paris | Kathleen | turn it off |
We appreciate your work | Suzanne | Wolbarst |
cherry pits | Ellen | Zhang |
Remission | Ellen | Zhang |
blooming forsythia | Ellen | Zhang |
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Notable works | A Boy's Will, North of Boston, New Hampshire |
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Pulitzer Prize
The most prestigious award for fiction in the United States hails from Columbia University. Named after Joseph Pulitzer, a renowned journalist in the 1800s, the prize recognizes works in print, digital, magazine journalism, musical composition, and literature.
And in fact Shakespeare is the best-selling poet in English of all time.
What is the Bell poetry prize? ›The biennial Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest Award is funded by the generous bequest of a former student of the University – Helen Anne Bell. This year the award offers an increased prize of $40,000 for a collection of poems by an Australian woman poet and its publication by Vagabond Press.
What is the Griffin prize for poetry? ›A prize of $130,000 Canadian (approximately $96,732) is given annually for a poetry collection written or translated into English by a living poet or translator from anywhere in the world and published during the previous year.
What is the Black Box poetry prize? ›The Black Box Poetry Prize is a contest for full-length collections of poetry, open to poets at any stage in their writing careers.
What is the Robert winner poetry award? ›Winner Memorial Award. A prize of $2,500 and publication on the Poetry Society of America website is given annually to a poet over 40 who has published no more than one book.
What is the Columbia poetry prize? ›George Edward Woodberry Prize
Established in 1935 by the Woodberry Society of New York and awarded every second year to an undergraduate student in Columbia University for the best original poem.
A prize of $1,000 and publication in Connecticut River Review will be given annually for an innovative poem.
What is Billy Collins most famous for? ›Dubbed “the most popular poet in America” by Bruce Weber in the New York Times, Billy Collins is famous for conversational, witty poems that welcome readers with humor but often slip into quirky, tender, or profound observation on the everyday, reading and writing, and poetry itself.
What was the first great poem? ›The oldest epic recognized is the Epic of Gilgamesh ( c. 2500–1300 BCE), which was recorded in ancient Sumer during the Neo-Sumerian Empire. The poem details the exploits of Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk.
Who is the most famous American free verse poet? ›
William Carlos Williams, 'The Red Wheelbarrow'.
The American modernist William Carlos Williams wrote two of the most famous free-verse poems of the twentieth century.
- Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. ...
- Hope by Emily Dickinson. ...
- Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeth Frye. ...
- Harlem by Langston Hughes. ...
- Ozymandias by Shelley. ...
- My life has been the poem I would have writ by Henry David Thoreau. ...
- Hug O' War by Shel Silverstein. ...
- Gitanjali 35 by Rabindranath Tagore.
- Still I Rise by Maya Angelou.
- Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.
- O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.
- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
- Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas.
- i carry your heart with me by e.e. cummings.
- Power by Audre Lorde.
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
William Shakespeare: was born in 1564. He was The Bard of Avon and at the same time a highly revered poet and playwright. In fact, he is considered to be the greatest English writer in the field of drama and literature. England hails him as its national poet, and the world is grateful for his literary contributions.
Who are Billy Collins favorite poets? ›The nation's most popular poet recommends works by William Wordsworth, Vladimir Nabokov, and more. New and Selected Poems by Charles Simic (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30).
Who is the poet laureate of the United States? ›Current U. S. Poet Laureate: Ada Limón
Born on March 28, 1976, she is originally from Sonoma, California.
Three poets, Thomas Gray, Samuel Rogers and Walter Scott, turned down the laureateship. The holder of the position as at January 2023 is Simon Armitage who succeeded Carol Ann Duffy in May 2019 after 10 years in office.
What is the oldest poem on the earth? ›The oldest epic poetry besides the Epic of Gilgamesh are the Greek epics Iliad and Odyssey and the Indian Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. Some scholars believe that either the Mahabharata or the Tibetan Epic of King Gesar is the longest example of epic poetry in history.
What is the number one rule of poetry? ›Bare Yourself
As lovetoknow.com points out, “This is probably the only rule that you should rely on all the time. If you're not honest with yourself in your poetry, no one else is going to feel anything genuine when they read your work.
The Mahabharata is one of the longest epic poems ever written. It has over 200,000 verse lines, 1.8 million words and it is believed that it could have taken over 600 years to write! The oldest surviving piece of text is believed to be dated from 400BCE.
What is a poem that doesn't rhyme called? ›
“Blank verse” is a literary term that refers to poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines, almost always iambic pentameter.
What is a short poem that doesn't rhyme? ›Free verse poetry is poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form.
Who is the greatest poet of nonsense verse? ›Born in 1812, Edward Lear is one of the most famous nonsense poets in the English language. He grew up in North London in a big family: his parents had twenty-one children, and Lear was the twentieth, though not all of his siblings survived infancy.