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The 2024 William Matthews Poetry Prize Winners, selected by David Kirby

Mary Makofske, from Warwick, NY, is awarded first prize for her poem, “Sex, That Peacock,” and will receive $1000, plus publication in Asheville Poetry Review (Vol. 31, Issue 33, 2024), which will be released in December, 2024.

Second prize is awarded to Paul Alexander, from Forest Hills, NY, for his poem, “Only in Darkness Can You See the Stars” He will receive $250, as well as publication.

Craig Van Rooyen resides on the central coast of California. He is the third prize recipient for his poem “Daylight Savings Poem,” and he will also be published in our next issue.

The next reading period for the William Matthews Poetry Prize is from September 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025. The final judge will be Nickole Brown. For complete guidelines, visit ashevillepoetryreview.submittable.com.

The 2025 William Matthews Poetry Prize

First Prize: $1,000, publication in Asheville Poetry Review, and a featured reading in Asheville
Second Prize: $250, publication, and a featured reading in Asheville
Third Prize: Publication and a featured reading in Asheville

Judge for 2025: Nickole Brown

The final judge will read anonymous manuscripts (all identifying information will be removed from the poems).

All submissions will be considered for publication.

Submission Deadline: January 15 of each year.

Send 1-3 poems, any style, any theme, any length, with a $20 entry fee.

Online submissions only, through Submittable:


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Back issue content recently added

The Asheville Poetry Review website is in the process of an all-inclusive update. Our mission is to make all of the content of our back issues available online, creating an archive that contains the complete publishing history of our first fifteen years, dating from our first issue, published in June 1994. We thank you for your patience as we update this site.

Below you’ll find links to the most recently added poetry, reviews, essays and interviews.

John Wood  •  from November 20, 2010

The Angels of Our Expectations

John Wood  •  from November 20, 2010

The Fiction of History

John Wood  •  from November 20, 2010

Double Elegy: for a Child, for an Old Man

Dede Wilson  •  from November 20, 2010

Morning Of The Duel

Dede Wilson  •  from November 20, 2010

Caleb

Daniel Westover  •  from November 20, 2010

Of Flesh and Heaven

Charles Harper Webb  •  from November 20, 2010

Never Too Late

Simon Perchik  •  from December 4, 2010

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Virgil  •  from November 19, 2010

For Camilla Wren McDaniel

— translated from the Latin by A. E. Stallings

Rafael Soto Verges  •  from November 19, 2010

Existence

— translated from the Spanish by Louis Bourne