Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards

Congratulations to all the winners of the 2022 Writer's Digest Poetry Awards! Read the winning poem and an interview with the First-Place winner Purvi Shah in the July/August 2023 issue of Writer's Digest.

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1. "Helix of the gift, lineage song" by Purvi Shah

2. “Letter to Myself to be Secreted Away Until” by Suellen Wedmore

3. "Palimpsest in Purple & Sun" by Ilari Pass

4. “I Married In the Year of Assassinations” by Judith Chibante

5. “Our Scars & Souvenirs” by Taylor Feuss

6. “I Said I Wouldn't Talk About God (A Haunted Sestina)” by .chisaraokwu.

7. “september session” by Nicole Adabunu

8. “an eggshell” by Lorraine Niboro

9. “Morning- Feb 24, 2022 A Bop* for Ukraine” by Robin Holland

10. “If I grieve at all” by Maryn Boess

11. “Krysuvik” by Sara Letourneau

12. “Midnight Walk” by Laurie Holding

13. “Floaters” by Christy Schwan

14. “The Equation Hidden at the End of the World” by Michael Olson

15. “Beacon Hill Beach” by Eillene Leistner

16. “Rain” by Shawna Braun

17. “Summerland” by Bernadette McComish

18. “Prayer for Old Age” by Nev March

19. “Preparing for Winter” by Karla Wotruba

20. “The West Facing Trees” by Gregory Cooper

21. “what would do for you?” by Richard Toth

22. “Winter's Call” by Karla Wotruba

23. “One” by Patricia Cicero

24. “A Dream for Sell” by Tara Peterson

25. “Granpa's Cigar” by Jessica L. Morris