Winner: “The Virgin Mary on MTV’s Teen Mom: Nazareth” by Adia Muhammad

Poetry Finalists

Natalie Tombasco, “Ghosthood”

Lisa Wence Connors, “Ars Poetica, Age 51”

Nikki Ummel, “Self-Portrait with Piano: a Duplex”

Wen Lim, "2006, the Year Mom Learnt to Bake Jim Lahey's No-Knead Bread"

Darius Simpson, “My Older Brother Apologizes”

Imani Cezanne, "SFSU FAll 2008"

Jared Harel, “All This Gold”

Dorothy Neagle, “There is No Place for Grief to Go”