Here are our Finalists in the 2025 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest:
“If Music Is the Sound Between” by Svetlana Litvinchuk
“Plymouth Fury” by Richard Hague
“The Call of the Tame” by Michael Jewell
“The Scarf” by Renee Schell
“Cloud in 9” by Mary Buchinger
“The Poet Resists His Own Instructions at the Nature Preserve” by Jeff Gundy
“Dormancy” by Sophia Gauthier
“Late Birth” by Randolph Thomas
“That’s the Boy Who Shot His Brother on Christmas Day” by B. Fulton Jennes
These poems have been sent to judge Timothy Geiger, and we’ll have our winner soon. Congratulations to our Finalists, and thanks to all who entered!