Ashland Poetry Press is excited to announce the that Judge Adam Gellings has selected the winning poems for our 2025 Poetry Broadside Contest.
Winner:
Isra Cheema, “Urdu on My Tongue, English in My Ear”
Runners-Up:
Brandon Lamson, “Teaching Child’s Pose”
Jennifer Franklin, “Blue Room, Pompeii”
All three of these poems will have broadsides designed by poet/artist Lindsay Lusby, and printed by the Ashland Poetry Press. Finished broadsides will be available here on our website, from the poets themselves, or at public events, such as AWP.
Here at the Ashland Poetry Press, we are believers in recognizing as many outstanding poems as we can. On that note, we’d like to recognize the finalists and semi-finalists from this year’s contest.
Finalists:
Talia Bloch – “Tashlikh”
Lindsay Brown – “Thin Places”
Nina Feinberg – “Flood”
Caroline Goodwin – “Gull’s Eye”
Erica Reid – “Aperire”
Kaija Strong – “Promise”
Barbara Ungar – “Equinox”
Semi-Finalists:
Alani Hicks-Bartlett – “Departure”
Sherry Beasley – “Burnt Offering”
Diane Callahan – “Senesense”
Kate Deimling – “Six Swans”
Donald Illich – “Turbulence”
Amelia Martens – “On the Day You Were Born”
Rachel Michaud – “Fireflies”
Shabnam Nadiya – “Ode to Not Love”
Marty Newman – “A Buck”
Carolyn Oliver – “Dyptich”
Jacob Snyder – “In Chaos”
Maya Sorini – “Prometheus Named the Eagles”
Jay Thomas – “Seven of Swords”
Alan Toltzis – “Answers from the Afterlife”
Caroline Wellman – “Self-Portrait as Electra”