We thought choosing a longlist was difficult, but choosing the shortlist was even harder.
Huge congratulations to the authors of the following shortlisted poems. Do feel free to let people know if you are a shortlisted author, but please don’t name your poem until results are announced as adjudication is still in process.
Spring Short 2024 Shortlist
- A Farrier Goes to the Dentist
- Assigned Readings
- August
- Bible School, Revisited
- Blue Heart
- Everything is Subject to Change
- Fetch (First line begins: “I pretend to throw”)
- First Meeting
- For a while, after a funeral
- How a Salamander Sheds
- I Used to Think I’d Be a Good Mortician
- In this Version of the Break-up, We Break-up
- July
- Mothers
- Musings Between a Field of Grain & Downtown Birmingham
- On Monday morning, a bird came to my window
- Pieces of Me
- Postcard
- Prologue
- Self-Portrait as Harold and His Purple Crayon in an Active Shooter Lockdown
- Something You Give Back After Keeping It for a While?
- Sundowners
- The Life Cycle of a Fairy Tale Princess
- The Wind’s Eye
- Winter Musings