The Prose Poem

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