The short list for the inaugural 2025 Escarpment Prize for Poetry has been selected by the editors of Avalon Park Press:

  • Elhannon - Pierce Clifford Brown

  • Silence & Salt - Genevieve Creedon

  • Confessions of a Trump Supporter - David Lohrey

  • Ice Flowers - Caroline Wellman

  • After the Anthropocene - Jordan Wyberneit

Thank you to all that submitted their work for this year’s prize.

Submissions

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Submissions 〰️

“Coming of age story,

Since the age of thirteen,

A cycle of creativity has caucused

In my pussy and then, unsown,

Transforms into new energy,

From potential to kinetic,

From chemical to mechanical,

Reputed to reality,

From magic to red blood.”