2nd-place winner: Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis for “Vanishing Armenia”

3rd-place winner: Simone Muench for “Eating Olives in the House of Heartbroken Women”

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Monica Berlin for “What Williams Forgot”
Michael Blumenthal for “Habitations”
Anne Caston for “The Burden”
Tishani Doshi for “Undertow”
Pamela Gemin for “Woman, Cat, Fire”
Robert Griffin for “Charm”
Meghan Hickey for “Standing Shelter”
Susan Hutton for “Hum”
Michael Ingram for “Joseph’s Dream”
Felix Jung for “Social Studies”
Clark Karoses for “Lezette”
Thomas E. Kennedy for “Renga”
Simone Muench for “Maps”
Greg Rappleye for “Homer, Faulkner, Noir”
David Roderick for “The Dream of Filthy River”
Brent Royster for “The Fifth Station”
Ruth L. Schwartz for “Millennium Love Poem”
Vivian Shipley for “The Dodo”
Francine Sterle for “Second Sight”
Susan Terris for “States of Mind: A Meditation on Places I’ve Never Been”
Thomas West for “Wishing for Winter”
Eliot Kahlil Wilson for “Blank Verse for How to Get to the Asylum Cemetery”