79: 2025 Passager Poetry Contest

2025 Passager Poet

Angie Minkin

Honorable mentions

Steve Amidon
Sitting at a desk in Fort Wayne, I think of Wallace Stevens

Deborah Arnold
Black Ice

Gilbert Arzola
Thanksgiving

Ruth Bardon
The Enemy

Lynne Burnett
Memory’s Darlings

Joanne Clarkson
Ache of Crimson in the Key of C

John Cullen
Curing

Shaheen Dil
Morning Walk, Dhaka, 2025

Jenny Doughty
To the deer that ran in front of my car

Margaret Doyle
The End of Mother Daughter

Aaron Fischer
Failed Pantoum for X

Julie Esther Fisher
As the Acorn Forgives the Oak

Eric Forsbergh
A Distant Train

Brian Giddens
Lucky Man

Hal Grinberg
Ars Poetica

Karen Paul Holmes
First Time Facing the Heavy Bag

Byron Hoot
Mapmaking

Judy Ireland
Self-Portrait with Amy Lowell’s Cigar

Susan Carroll Jewell
At the Gaming Expo

Elizabeth Kerlikowske
On Seeing Myself as Others See Me

Gary Lark
Slim Light

Richard Levine
Thanksgiving

Priscilla Long
Brother/3

Karen McAferty Morris
Rock Collection

Susan Miller
You Never Know Who or What Will Travel with You to the End

Robert Miner
The servant of the poet Po Chü-I expresses her exasperation

Jed Myers
News of the War

Angela Patten
Salt

Marianne Patty
Dancing with the Enemy

Gary Powell
The Largesse of the Maidenhair Fern

Arthur Russell
Worried Animal

Penelope Scambly-Schott
My Husband (U.S. Army, Vietnam 1969-1970)

Susan Shea
Stepping Out

Buffy Shutt
Every Fourteen Days a Language Dies

Shoshauna Shy
Lucky Timing

Annette Sisson
Windsong

Sarah Snyder
On a Boat in Doubtful Sound, New Zealand

Julie Cadwallader Staub
The Heart

Philip Stern
Emerging Poet

Wally Swist
Grateful for the Birds

Isabelle Walker
Flying Over Peconic Bay

Florence Weinberger
On the Way to Flannery O’Connor’s Final Home

Pamela Wynn
Signs of a Hard Winter Coming