Sweet is thrilled to announce the results of our 2023 Poetry Contest!
Judge Andrew Grace has selected the top three poems below of the ten finalists sent to him by Sweet poetry staff. Look for these poems on the Sweet website soon!
Contest Winner: “Scheherazade Finishes” by Linda Dove
First Runner Up: “3000 Turns Against Death” by Sherre Vernon
Second Runner Up: “Once More in the Depths” by Ann Weil
Finalists:
“Cicada Summer” by Jenna Baillargeon
“Scientists Determine Time Perception Varies Between Animals” by Rebecca Brock
“Show Me, Earth, Your Day” by Dana Kinsey
“The Kids Don’t Want Our Stuff” by Sharon Lee Snow
“Further Down” by Fran Westwood
“Horticulture” by Beth Williams
“Reading the News” by Wendy Wisner
Andrew Grace is the author of three books of poems, A Belonging Field (Salt), Shadeland (Ohio State) and SANCTA (Ahsahta) which in 2021 was published in a new edition by Foundlings Press. He is a former Stegner Fellow and his poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, New Criterion, Boston Review and Iowa Review among others. He is a Senior Editor at the Kenyon Review and teaches at Kenyon College.
