2023 PLA Prize in Poetry

Ellie Black was awarded the annual prize for her poem, “My Kink.” In addition to the $2,000 cash prize, Black’s poem will appear in the Fall issue of the PInch.

Finalists

• Moni Brar, “The Line is an Echo”

• Stacey Forbes, “Materia Prima” and “Ways to make a stranger feel at home”

• Dr. Tony Caitlin Plante, “The Guadalupe River, Boerne, Texas”

• Javier Sandoval, “Street Howl for the Exiled”

• Leona Sevick, “Je mange mes mots”

• Lynne Schmidt, “The Wedding Ring”

• Clancy Tripp, “Coup de Foudre” and “If I Were Gretel, I Would Have Kept the Bread”