Category ii. of vi.
Poetry.
What the panel reads
A single-author collection of poems, first published in the United States during the season year. Chapbooks of thirty-two pages or more are read alongside full collections; the panel has never regarded length as an argument.
The 2025 Laureate
The Book of Second Weather
Cristina Fajardo · Copper Canyon — First collection.
Recent Laureates
The last five seasons.
2024
Salt Almanac
2023
The Hour Before Rain
2022
Field Recordings
2021
A Second Alphabet
2020
The Quiet Machinery