Finalist, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeWalking with Eve in the Loved City is an ambitious collection. Using a variety of male figures—Jeff Goldblum, Ringo Starr, the poet’s uncle Billy
Winner, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeNarcissus Americana sings and scraps and wrestles its way across various landscapes—abandoned quarries, art museums, lavish homes, and tar pits—in
Finalist, 2018 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeYa Te Veo takes as its title the name of a mythical tree that eats people. Like the branches of that tree, the poems in this book seem to capture and nourish
Finalist, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize“Poems that lead us to striking insights and strange destinations.” —Billy CollinsThe men who recur as characters throughout Jess Williard&
Winner, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize“We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua’s consciousness . . . a smart, sympathetic mind at work.” —Billy CollinsDrawing on the
Finalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeOut of the contradiction, paradox, loss, and strange beauty of contemporary warfare, Brock Jones brings usCenotaph, a collection of poems that have as their
Finalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeThe poems in See You Soon endeavor to test the limits of metaphor and language as their voices speak from the beauty and strangeness of daily experience, tes
Winner, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeRandall Jarrell said that when you read a poem “you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own.” In
Finalist, 2016 Miller Williams Poetry PrizeIn When We Were Birds, Joe Wilkins wrestles his attention away from the griefs, deprivations, and high prairies of his Montana childhood and turns toward “th
