The 2017 Writer’s Digest Poetry Awards Winners

Writer’s Digest would like to congratulate the winning poems from the 2017 WD Poetry Awards. For full coverage of the 2017 WD Poetry Awards, check out the July/August 2018 issue of Writer’s Digest. To read the top ten poems, click here.

1. “A Weeping Siberian Spruce” by Thomas Dukes
2. “In a While” by Kate Dickson
3. Gidget Gets Old” by Gail Israel
4. “September 15, 2017” by Young Sang Lee
5. “Hanging on the Barbed Wire” by Pat Anthony
6. “The Vagabond Quothe Shakespeare” by Mark Novak
7. “The Funeral of a Friend’s Son” by Anne Pabst
8. “Crude Crude English” by Arvid Svenske
9. “Cotton Picker’s Lament” by Alex J. Stokas
10. “Advice From Beyond” by Gail Israel
11. “Campus Town Morning Rain” by Shelley Jones
12. “The Piano Tuner’s Son” by Tammy Takaishi
13. “Almost Blue” by Johne Richardson
14. “The Other Annette” by George Amabile
15. “Dashi” by Robert Okaji
16. “A Poem I Wrote for the Beatles” by Young Sang Lee
17. “Garden Memories” by Alice Louise Wagoner
18. “After days of rain, the sun decides to shine” by Trudy Wells-Meyer
19. “This Poem Is a Dance Shoe” by Sara McNulty
20. “Cu (29)” by Caitlin Johnson
21. “dissonance” by Stuart Forrest
22. “Secret Lives” by Barbara Kerr
23. “Second Home” by Mary C. Johansen
24. “Compassion” by Randall Smith
25. “En Plein Air” by Toni S. Gilbert