SHORT LIST: 21 and above

Sarah Svobodova
Division

Scott-Patrick Mitchell
Him

Jacob Grimmett
Hues of Thought

Sangamithra Nataraj
Complexity

Laura Kenny
Frequencies

Kjell Winkens
The Final Day of Summer

Sagar Singh
Lost In You

Camille Pira
Lobotomy

Ana Anon
Defeat

Crystal Cousley
Are You Real?

Noah  Schnaubelt
Searching

Raquel Burgess
Untold

Jessica Riekhoff
Muhammed Ali

Mehwash  Saani
Soul Lust

Virginia Erholtz
Nine

Vivienne Hunter
Rendered Voiceless

Djana Mujkic
Alone

Bethany MacLachlan
Less Still Isn't Enough

Kien Chu
Now

Kimmery Moss
Mount Vesuvius

Michael Peyper
Lost Boy

Andrew Feaster
Evocation

Shawn Gilbreath
None

Ricardo Hanley Jr.
Black And White

Gizem Erdogan
A Sorry Tradition

Adil Hussain
To A Girl Who Promised A Lifetime

Liselli Daniel
Perfection

Kayla Camp
Pilgrims

Angela Ross Perfetti
Growing Up

Caleb Alexander
Your Face Will Get Stuck Like That (A Villanelle)

Rupika Kumar
One Day

Ashley Adams
London Daze

Teagan Dinslage
This is the End of Us

Sadiq Shivji
Gravity Part 2

Jamie Madigan
Lipstick Stains

Stacy Barry
Bleached

Ritika Deb
Starving

Yaima Lledo
Carving You

Eilis O'Connell
Home

Rafael Yoo
Shangri-La

Diana Perry
Midnight Blues

Jackie Primeau
Untold Truths

Lize Alberts
Ginsberg's

Roger Paffrath
Pulse

Caitie Slowik
Your Beard

R. C. Gonzales
Begin and End

Salma El Houfy
Things You Need To Do

Aaron Anduwa
Fairytale In Glory

Crystal Clowney
Unfinished Poem #7

Nastasia Delmedico
The Binge Diet

 

SHORT LIST: 20 and under

Josephine Debono
Rain

Eruj Nadeem
The Exorcism

Alesandra Temerte
Flaws

Madhusraba  Mohanty
Hope

Sun Yie
Directionless

Shilpa Abraham
My Dear

Mou  Moi
Broken Thoughts

Hope Kahn
Space Girl

Anusha Ramakrishanan
Window Chair

Song Yang Lee
Down

Sally Nagle
Where I'm From

Prerana Kumar
Bunker

Eugene Stickley
Judoc, King O' Crows

Zsófia Kóbor
Dusk

Isha Verma
Fatal Attraction

Isabel McCloskey
Broken Sheild

Kuterera Kangara
A Bucket-List to Suicide

Alanna Camargo
The Stasis of Downward Emotions

Jessica  Nichols
Trees & Weeds

Hannah Haakenson
Footprints

Celia Rose
Liquor

Muskan Sagtani
Musical Notes of the Rain Drops

Amelia Surya
Everything We Remain To Be

Adeyeni Oluwadamilola
Africa: Broken Pieces

Shreya Das
Fireplace Mishap

Emma Bloemhoff
Girls Like Her

Aymen Dar
Children of War

Sabrina Schoop
Rehab

Jacobina Kalunduka
Who Opened Up My Heart?

Anna Mangum
An Account of Eating Disorder Recovery

Kwan Yee Tan
Animus

Kaitlyn Moore
Please Do Me The Favor

Janina Gimbel
Paradoxes

Sam Fritsch
S(k)in

Shelby Leigh
Full Moon

Nyque  Ambetsa
Thank Me Later

Sydni Castro
Evidence of Above

Jasneet Samra
I'm No Poet

Ezenwoke  Nwosu
Cupid

Niharika Ravi
The Broken Heart

Ishita Wadhwa
Dirty nostalgia

Khwaish Gupta
Soulfulness

Alka Rao
[of typos and calligraphic breaths]

Avhi Sharma (pen name - merakios)
Petrichor

Chase  Houghton
Chloe

Sarah Murad
The Reason I Pray

Shweta Dubey
Welcome to Paris