Contest Winners – Poetry Grid Poetry Winners American Colonial February 19, 2026 Written by: Cuin Reagan Third Place Winner of the 2026 Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest Something hangs In the foyer, in the stained-glass solder— Its... Witch Doctor February 18, 2026 Written by: Ava Venuk Second Place Winner of the 2026 Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest The waiting room has free glass-bowl almond... HEEP February 18, 2026 Written by: Elijah Polance First Place Winner of the 2026 Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest Not yet shivering, camera in hand, the trail ... Opening May 1, 2025 Written by: Charlotte Ungar Co-First Place Winner of the 2025 Wallace Stevens Poetry Contest Of all I forget, I remember, the almond... fairybreeze April 30, 2024 By Anh Lee 2nd place winner of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize We last beyond a century we are forgotten smelling of indigo bodies and... Aromantic’s Apotropaic April 26, 2024 By Charlie M. Case (with a borrowed line from Nicky Beer) Winner of The Edward R. and Frances Schreiber Collins Literary Awards (Poetry) This is... Displaced April 25, 2024 By Zeynep Özer Winner of The Long River Review Graduate Writing Award Three Women That’s when they started talking. Not when the... “Fears After the Indonesian Forest Fires” By Anna Ziering (2017) June 16, 2017 Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, Winner (2017) Death, of course. Having no God. Sunday afternoons, New England falls. Sleet storms like the one that... “New Year on Pleasure Island” By Brian Sneeden (2017) June 16, 2017 Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, Second Place (2017) What I did not know to make made itself in vestigial hours between two o’clock and dawn, when the... 1234