We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2021 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize. The final judge, Honorée Fannone Jeffers, was replaced by Dr. Tsitsi Ella Jaji, winner of the 2018 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry. Dr. Jaji selected “Bloodgood: Prune” by...
We are quite pleased to announce that “Probable Cause” by Olatunde Osinaike has been selected the winner of the 2019 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize by the final judge Rickey Laurentiis. Congratulations!!! The final judge was unavailable for comment. Probable...
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize. The final judge, Camille Dungy has selected: The Kid Next To Me At The 7pm Showing Of The Avengers Has A Toy Gun by Ashley M. Jones. Of the poem she writes: The structure of the poem, with...
It is with much jubilation we announce the winner of the 2017 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize. The final judge, Vievee Francis selected: Contaminant Relics by Catherine Ntube. Please see her comments below: “Contaminant...
Announcing the 2016 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize Winner! We are pleased to announce the winner of the 4th Annual Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize. Our final judge, Reginald Dwayne Betts selected: Ode to the Barbershop by Malcolm Friend. His comments below:...
2015 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize Winner! We are pleased to announce the winner of the 3rd Annual Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize. Our final judge, Sharan Strange, selected: Hijito by Carlos Andres Gomez Read her comments below: “Hijito” is moving…haunting and...
