Here are our Finalists in the 2026 Slippery Elm Poetry Contest:
“Faith” by Terri Niccum
“Drowning Lessons” by Rachel Fan
“Manna” by Kira Trainor
“V” by Ray McNiece
“Liturgy of Bees” by Danelle Lejeune
“Rosemary Kennedy in the Birth Canal, September 13, 1918” by Erica Manto-Paulson
“The Business of Gifting Organs” by Cody Green
“An Incomplete History of Bullets” by Mary Christine Delea
“What Whales Might Say About Syntax” by Mary K. O’Melveny
These poems have been sent to judge Jonie McIntire, and we’ll have our winner soon. Congratulations to our Finalists, and thanks to all who entered!