We are pleased to announce the winners of our 2025 Frederick Morgan Poetry Contest! Congratulations to Arah Ko, who won first prize with her poems “The Riven” and “Egg Tooth.” Further congratulations to Mary Fontana, who won second prize with “Inheritance” and “Built Close to Water, No. 1”; Ethan Chua, who won third prize with “Asking for Bread” and “The Secret to Immortality (As Sung by Ella Fitzgerald to Chang’e)”; and Daniel Cowper who received an honorable mention for “Feast of the First Fruits” and “The Shrew.” We are honored to be publishing their poems.
All winning poems can be read in our Spring 2026 issue. Thank you to everyone who submitted to the contest and shared their work with us. Our next poetry contest will run in April 2027.