2nd-place winner:
Susan Rich for “In Search of Alternative Endings”

3rd-place winner:
John Repp for “Another New York Poem”

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Sheila Bender for “In Hiroshima”
Rikki Clark for “In the River in the Gloaming”
Susan Collard for “Passage”
Cassandra Dickson for “Weather Without Trees”
Linda Nemec Foster for “The Contour of Absence”
Sharon Hashimoto for “Keiko Kawakami, Survivor, Age 12”
Margaret J. Hoehn for “Apples”
Ger Killeen for “Letter from Ireland”
Veronica Irwin for “Draining Daughter”
Bob King for “Risk Management”
J. Keiko Lane for “Garage Swallows”
Naomi Lazard for “The Spirit of Whitefish Lake”
Jim Nawrocki for “The Demolition”
Mary E. O’Dell for “Looking for Signs”
Claudia Putnam for “Montana Granite”
Susan Rich for “Nocturne”
Vivian Shipley for “Adjust the Size of Grief: 6x9, 8x10"
Glori Simmons for “Manifesto for the Hands”
Michol Stout for “Fields”
Luisa Villani for “The Station at Donetsk, Sometimes Called ‘Don’t Ask’”
Cara Wall for “May, Italy”
Timothy Whitsel for “September Garden Plot”