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Tyehimba Jess

Judged: Jul-Sep 2011

Tyehimba Jess

Tyehimba Jess is the author of Leadbelly, winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. He has also won a Whiting Award, a Lannan Foundation Residency Award, a Fine Arts Work Center Winter Residency, a National Endowment for the Arts Award. He is an alumni of Cave Canem and New York University. He is currently Assistant Professor of English at College of Staten Island.

• August 2022 Winners

  • First Place

    Sodom by the Sea
    by Ken Ashworth
    The Writer's Block
    

    Second Place

    Good Omens
    by Christine Potter
    The Waters
    

    Third Place

    Isaac and the Apple
    by Rus Bowden
    Babilu
    
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  • Meet the Judge: Doris Ferleger



• July 2022 Winners

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    striking a match in an empty house
    by Billy Howell-Sinnard
    The Waters
    

    Second Place

    My Soul to Keep
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    Babilu
    

    Third Place

    Li Po Adrift
    by Bob Bradshaw
    The Writer's Block
    
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  • Previous Judge: R.T. Castleberry