Pushcart Prize

1. Jenny Qi, “Ovine Triptych”
2. Aidan Chafe, “Toy Soldiers”
3. Anastasia K Gates, “Song of Sanctuary”
4. Narisma, “Freedom from Loss”
5. Shivani Mehta, “The Education”
6. Jarrett Moseley, “Sacrament”

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Best New Poets

1. Ethan s evans: “the insurgency turned the used car lot into a staging ground”
2. Gray Davidson Carol: “Cum Sonnets”
3. Arunmandhira Howard: “Djinn”, “1944”
4. Maria Giesbrecht: “Don’t take this the wrong way, but God can’t hear you”, “My doctor says having a baby can cure my endometriosis”
5. Merilyn Chang: “I promise I don’t want your passport, German Texas”, “I pay the price of three”
6. Narisma: “Freedom from Loss”, “Moonrise at Avenue H”
7. Anastasia K. Gates: “Letter from another age”, “in a past life”

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Best Spiritual Literature

1. Natasha Oladokun: “Psalm 23 As The Temperance Card”
2. Jeremy Radin: “A Power Greater Than Oneself”
3. Ramsey Tawfick: “a church is any 2 who meet w me”
4. Margarita Cruz: “Dreaming as Evidence”
5. Regina Avendano: “Spring Time”
6. Nur Turkmani: “Passengers”

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Monarch Queer Awards

1. xochi quetzali cartland: “Bear Hugs & Axolotl Dreams”
2. Seth Leeper: “Pantoublock with Persephones and Milk Cartons”
3. Sterling-elizabeth arcadia: “Full” 
4. Arumandhira Howard: “1943”
5. Kit Eginton: “Consent Sonnets”

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Nina Riggs Poetry Award

1. Bobby Elliott: “Skin to Skin”
2. Jenny Qi” “Girl / Guāi 乖”
3. Narisma: “Uncle Sugar”
4. Shivani Mehta: “One Year I Lived Alone” 
5. Richard Garcia: “Another Thing I Know for Sure”
6. Chiwenite Onyekwelu: “Duplex for my Father”
7. Tim Seibles: “Anymore”
8. Zachary Forrest y Salazar: “After Years Thinking about Dying”
9. xochi quetzali cartland: “Real Magic”
10. Rebecca Faulkner: “Prim”
11. Dorsey Craft: “WHEN YOU ARE TWELVE”
12. Réka Nyitrai: “Ode to birds”
13. Luisa Muradyan: “Light Crimes, a Love Story”
14. Timi Sanni: “CRISIS”
15. Todd Dillard: “Invisible Chorus”
16. Amorak Huey: “Ode to Infidelity”

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Best of the Net:

1. Ethan s evans: “the problem with constructing a moral calculus is that most of us start in the red”
2. Elise Powers: “Might Should”
3. Ammara Younas: “Self-Portrait as God Holding the Dead in His Palms”
4. Gray Davidson Carol: “Cum Sonnet”
5. Luisa Muradyan: “Woman Posting in Parenting Forum”
6. Sheila Dong: “I Want Group Hugs in Front of Thai Restaurants”
7. Brit Washburn: “A Poetics of Multiple Altars”
8. Svetlana Litvinchuk: “Where is the Love: A Meditation of the Role of Love in Modern Poetry”
9. Derek Mueller: “Lunula”, “Phalanx”, “Salt-Loss”

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