Announcing the Semi Finalists to the Mary Ballard Poetry Prize for 2015

We are excited to narrow our field of contenders for the contest to these semi-finalists.

Semi-finalists, keep your simultaneous submissions active, but let us know immediately if you need to withdraw. Three finalists will be selected in September, and we need to be certain these three poets are available to accept their publishing contract upon winning.

Congratulations, poets.

A Wider Sky of Profound ~ Gina Marie Mammano

Anatomie of the World ~ Annie Dawid

apostle songs ~ Carly Joy Miller

Boomerang Girl ~ Caitlin Johnson

Both Wave and Particle ~ Rafael S.W.

Children Born on the Wrong Side of the River ~ Sarah McCartt-Jackson

Dead Skin and Salt Water ~ Amanda Silberling

Donating Organs in Boxes ~ David Walker

Escaping the Nursing Home & Other Cleansings ~ Amanda Fuller

Everything But the Sky ~ Meg Tuite/David Tomaloff

Falling and Flying ~ Julia Hones

Forget-Me-Nots ~ Heather M. Browne

Hanging Tight Aboard the Stella Irene ~ Sandy Hiortdahl

Heart of Wisdom ~ Jacqueline Seewald

How to Write Water ~ Amanda Linsmeier

Islands where egrets wade ~ Monika John

Letters in the Margins ~ Alina Stefanescu Coryell

Letters to Sneha ~ Souradeep Roy

Love and Sorrow ~ B.J. Buckley

love poems for various places, people, and things. ~ Katharine Gripp

Loving the Pyromaniac ~ Louise Fabiani

Misplaced Bookmarks ~ Winston Mayo

My Father's Bargain ~ Jessica Cuello

Necessary Work ~ Nicole Rollender

No Roadmap, No Brakes ~ Madeleine Beckman

PA ~ Peggy Trojan

Past the Narrows ~ Mark Mansfield

Patchwork ~ Stephanie Lee Evans

Precise as a Cloud ~ June Blumenson

Remarkable Shadows ~ Margaret Rozga

Scavenger Hunt ~ Sara Backer

Sipping Sweet Memories from a Cup of Childhood ~ Verna Jean Mitchell

Soul Thoughts ~ Celestial K.

Stanhope ~ Bud R. Berkich

Stay ~ Melissa Jackson

Sunrise to Moonlight Pantoums ~ Joan Canby

Take Wing ~ David Allen Sullivan

The Blue of Touching ~ Gail Ghai

The Coming and The Going ~ Eva Garcia-Mayers

The Consolation of Roses ~ Judith Waller Carroll

The Distance We Become ~ Bob Putnam

The Edge of the Light ~ Peter Blueberry

The Unbroken Child ~ Nicole Matos

The Valley Gives Up Its Light First ~ Paul Weidknecht

This Is The Photo ~ Eva Schlesinger

Through My Wayfarers ~ E.P. Groves

Tricks of Light ~ Issa M. Lewis

Underneath My D.C. Memories ~ Betty Lipton

WakeBreatheMove ~ Christina M. Rau

War Stories ~ Paul David Adkins

Whispering Sorrows ~ Fabiyas M V

Wings Of Phoenix ~ Neha Rautela