Announcing the Winners of the 2022 Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 WD 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
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