
2025 Queer Poetry Prize: Winners & Finalists
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by CAConrad.
Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by CAConrad.
“The sun lazes up / there as if drunk on Bolivian moonshine and altitude, // as we are.”
By Qiang Meng
“I read The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin and believed our / universe was foldable like aluminum foil.”
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By Paul Ilechko
“sitting on a broken fence as the crabs // split their shells chunks of raw abalone / dripping from the beaks of gulls”
By Guo Feifei
“I’d / let the quiet wastelands of our bodies overlap, be / watched by our neighbors in this country.”
By CP Nwankwo
“what if / circuits vegetate like synapses in / a springing vine— / & all the dew-code glistens in blue sky?”