2024 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Contest Winners and Finalists
First ($600)
The War is Past (Continuous)—Habiba Dokubo-Asari, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
Second ($400)
Untethered—Oghenetega Jewo, Lagos, Nigeria
Third ($300)
Lover Lover Lover Lover—Jay Christianto, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Fourth ($100)
Pacified—Yoda Olinyk, London, Ontario, Canada
What Memories Are Carried in Light—Guy Reed, Saugerties, NY
Honorable Mentions (10 @$60)
- Monday Morning, Early—Emma Marie Duke, Cambridge, MA
- Grief-II—Tara Labovich, Ames, IA
- October—Barbara Ungar, Saratoga Springs, NY
- Memorial Day—Charles Rossiter, Bennington, VT
- Eulogy for the Embracing Figures of Pompeii—Briana Craig, Germantown, MD
- How to Defeat Pol Pot—Bunkong Tuon, Niskayuna, NY
- The Hermit—Beate Sigriddaughter, Silver City, NM
- Pastoral—James Duncan, Albany, NY
- The Various—Matt Dennison, Columbus, MS
- The Unpassing—Sara Lynn Eastler, Rockport, ME
Other Finalists
- Elegy in Flannel & Cotton—Anastasia Vassos, Roslindale, MA
- Bower Bird—C. James Kendrick, Albuquerque, NM
- The Tanzanian Mask—Maroula Blades, Berlin, Germany
- Anniversary—Luisa Giulianetti, Kensington, CA
- Surveying—Alana Pedalino, Buffalo, NY & Nutley, NJ
- Lucky Fish—Allison Xu, Rockville, MD
- Oppaa—Fabiyas M V, Orumanayur, Kerala, India
- The Rosary—Jessica Cloud, Hartsville, SC
- Purple—Keera Mackenzie, Derry, NH
- I Am Creating Foreign Lands to Leave My Own—Taiye Ojo, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria
- Federation Agents Ask Whether I’ve Ever Been Married—Jackie Craven, Schenectady, NY
- Fare—Madeline Medensky, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada