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Voting for poems in the Previous Rounds has been completed. The top four poems from each round advance to the Qualifying Round and, if selected by the voters, to the Poetry Ark Anthology and the Prize Round.

01

This round was open January 18 - February 01 | View full round

Unification Theory

Alyse Knorr

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.55
Night Fishing

Gibbons Ruark

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.52
Quantum Suicide

Alyse Knorr

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.42
Turning Off the Lights

Alyse Knorr

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.42
IMAGINED KINSHIP

Roxana Cazan

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.13
American Elegy

Gibbons Ruark

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.06

02

This round was open January 28 - February 11 | View full round

Comforting Sounds

Daniel D'Angelo

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.52
Vectors

Alyse Knorr

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.12
Next Year, Dad

Jack Snyder

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.95
In the Field

Alyse Knorr

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.9
Bottomland

Adam Million

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.79
arborvitae

Jack Snyder

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.77

03

This round was open February 11 - February 25 | View full round

Come, Tiger!

Daniel Peter Imperiale

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.41
In Wonder

Kristen VanDeventer

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.29
Yes, Gale

Alyse Knorr

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.12
Transient Insomnia

Alyse Knorr

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2
Kabul

Bobbi Lurie

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2
Painted On the Water

Daniel Peter Imperiale

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2

04

This round was open February 23 - March 09 | View full round

Echo of War

Farida Samerkhanova

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.34
made flesh

Michelle Puckett

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.26
An Apple from Dachau

Jesse Waters

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.92
Phoenix Lander

Daniel Peter Imperiale

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.89
Daylight Savings

George O'Connell

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.87
The Sadness of Toupees

Adam Henry Carriere

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.86

05

This round was open February 28 - March 14 | View full round

Room Service

Matthew Cremer

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.09
Of all the Gin Joints...

Matthew Cremer

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.05
Remembering Her House

Alyse Knorr

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.85
In the Salon of the Centro Artistico, 1933

Jesse Waters

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.77
Big Moonlight

Daniel Peter Imperiale

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.69
IN SEARCH OF THE SLEEPING BUDDHA

Charles Kasler

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.63

06

This round was open March 11 - March 25 | View full round

Memories

Farida Samerkhanova

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.29
Fat Crow Above Me

Susan Berlin

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.17
Hydrangeas

paracelsus

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.74
Cluck

Mary Anne Hall

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.72
Evening Cremations

George O'Connell

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.69
Last Day

Ryan Garth Mitchell

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.64

07

This round was open March 22 - April 05 | View full round

Request Denied

Susan Berlin

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.34
What We Cannot Ask

Shawna Mayer

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.94
Elemental

Paracelsus

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.67
Inheritance

Mary Anne Hall

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.62
Bringing culture to the neighborhood

Jackie Zollo Brooks

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.59
Soaping Down for Saint Francis of Assisi: The Canticle of Sister Soap

Gibbons Ruark

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.55

08

This round was open April 02 - April 16 | View full round

A Ride on the Bus

Kaye Spivey

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.96
Not All Our Days are Colourful 'n Gayly

Paul Troshin

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.95
The Ark

Vincent Cioffi

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.88
Mistress

Susan Berlin

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.88
Self-Portrait as Cadaver

George O'Connell

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.66
Good Daughter

Pepsie Jabre

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.59

09

This round was open April 09 - April 23 | View full round

In a Strip Joint Parking Lot

Farida Samerkhanova

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.01
Now I'm Building the World

Vincent Cioffi

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.83
From My Window

Susan Berlin

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.81
Maps

George O'Connell

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.8
Ways of Making Love

Kirsty Logan

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.79
At the Audiologist's

George O'Connell

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.79

10

This round was open April 12 - April 26 | View full round

Father

James McColley Eilers

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.07
The Living Lie

Parker Tettleton

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.91
IMAGINED KINSHIP

Roxana Cazan

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.77
Your Chambre de Bonne, Winter

Melanie Langer

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.75
You

David Sahner

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.69
Who Knows Why

Wade Stevenson

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.58

11

This round was open April 19 - May 03 | View full round

The Road to Baghdad

S. Brady Tucker

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.25
My Father’s Wallets

George O'Connell

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.14
Elephants in Africa

Angela Gattin

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.94
Transplanting Cosmos

Elinor Benedict

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.8
Spring

Vincent Cioffi

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.78
Everything Rides On A Rock

Parker Tettleton

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.65

12

This round was open April 28 - May 12 | View full round

Kabul

Bobbi Lurie

Your Score

--

Avg Score

2.25
Anti-history

Robert Cohen

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.95
Today I'm Harry, He's Dad

Homer Mitchell

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.94
Diagnosis

Catherine Hotaling-Donnelly

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.92
Graveyard in Provence

David Sahner

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.76
Piton de la Fournaise

Joshua A. Garcia

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.72

13

This round was open May 09 - May 23 | View full round

Tense Darkness

Farida Samerkhanova

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.05
Convoy (*Inspiration from ‘Shiloh’ by Larry Levis)

Tonya Peterson

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.97
Snapshots of Indecency.

Laura Wasserman

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.89
This Haunting

Darrell Lindsey

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.82
Reactor No. 4 (Ghosts of Chernobyl)

Kirsty Logan

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.74
Good Daughter

Pepsie Jabre

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.72

14

This round was open May 18 - June 01 | View full round

An Apple from Dachau

Jesse Waters

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.05
A Question for Edith W.

Gene Goldfarb

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.89
Eclogue # 1, After Bakken

Daniel Peter Imperiale

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.85
Elemental

Paracelsus

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.8
Mothers Mosaic

Laura Wasserman

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.74
Of what we are made

Maria Papacostaki

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.68

15

This round was open May 31 - June 14 | View full round

Not All Our Days are Colourful 'n Gayly

Paul Troshin

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.88
Bottomland

Adam Million

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.86
IN THE COURT OF THE BOWERBIRD

David Sahner

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.78
Traveling North

Bobbi Lurie

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.75
A Ride on the Bus

Kaye Spivey

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.75
The Poet's Embezzlement

Con Chapman

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.72

16

This round was open June 14 - June 28 | View full round

While you were away at war

Sean Kevin Fitzpatrick

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.1
The Ark

Vincent Cioffi

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.94
To Y

Matt Beagle Bourgault

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.88
Epiphany

Homer Mitchell

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.87
I Saw

Greg Tuleja

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.87
Hydrangeas

paracelsus

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.86

17

This round was open June 28 - July 12 | View full round

grace

Dave Benson

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.01
"In Another Life..."

Betty Adcock

Your Score

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Avg Score

2
Free Verse

Ngoc Minh Nguyen

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.82
Prodigal Days

Darrell Lindsey

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.65
J'Adore un Labrador

EGranfors

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.62
One Day in the Future

Matt Beagle Bourgault

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.59

18

This round was open July 12 - July 26 | View full round

On Seeing a Lock of Fanny Brawne's Hair

Joris Soeding

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.01
Straw Hat Prophet

Darrell Lindsey

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.9
Soaping Down for Saint Francis of Assisi: The Canticle of Sister Soap

Gibbons Ruark

Your Score

--

Avg Score

1.9
Reactor #4 (Ghosts of Chernobyl)

Kirsty Logan

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.87
Conjuring

Charles Hansmann

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.85
Night Respite

Pepsie Jabre

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.84

19

This round was open July 25 - August 08 | View full round

Topsy Turvy Everything

Farida Samerkhanova

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.24
I run out of cigarettes sometimes

Hrvoje Ferle

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.09
Dust

Matt Beagle Bourgault

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.07
Flowers

Pepsie Jabre

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.06
Solitary Narragansett

Con Chapman

Your Score

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Avg Score

2
Perseus

Gary L. Hammontree

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.94

20

This round was open August 08 - August 22 | View full round

The Six Yellows of Wheat

George O'Connell

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.17
August 6, 1945

Homer Mitchell

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.93
Goodwill

Josh Magnuson

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.87
Hidden Behind the Middle School

Tracy Koretsky

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.86
" our blue bag"

Darrell Lindsey

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.84
Fairy Tale

Gene Goldfarb

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.73

21

This round was open August 19 - September 02 | View full round

Battered Suitcase Memories

Joanne Jagoda

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.2
without scents

laura price

Your Score

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Avg Score

2.03
Kumaracom Lake Resort

Barbara Werzansky

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.95
Pieta

Tracy Koretsky

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.74
Hell Bent

Pepsie Jabre

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.71
That's it

Gillian Roach

Your Score

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Avg Score

1.62