Monday, May 9, 2022

The preliminary judges have spoken...

  

Adela Najarro and Ariel Francisco,

the preliminary judges of the 10th edition

of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize,

have completed their work.

 

Final judges

Alexandra Lytton Regalado

and Sheila Maldonado

are now undertaking theirs.

 

FINALISTS

 

Eucalyptus………………………….Lupita Eyde-Tucker (Melbourne Beach, FL)

Bodypolitic…………………………Aerik Francis (Denver, CO)

La Kapital…………………………..John Infante (New York, NY)

Ghosts in Training………………….Bertha Combret (Tallahassee, FL)

The History of the Earth…………….Miguel Garcia (El Paso, TX)

La Casa Roja………………………..Alonso Llerena (McClean, VA)

Papi Pichón………………………….Dimitri Reyes (Kearny, NJ)

Red String on a Saguaro Cactus…….Kimberly Vargas Agnese (Fresno, CA)

The Cats of Old San Juan……………David M. de Leon (Jersey City, NJ)

Santa Tarantula………………………Jordan Pérez (Decatour, GA)

Little Love……………………………Cristi Donoso (Alexandria, VA)

Almond Songs………………………..Vinnie Lopez (Salida, CA)

Devotional……………………………Sarah Yanni (Encino, CA)

Epilogue to Paradise…………………Ryan Clinesmith (New York, NY)

California Silence…………………….Stella Santamaria (Miami, FL)


SEMI-FINALISTS

 

In the fields and in the barrios………....Yelisa Ambriz (Fresno, CA)

Casa de Negro / House of Black……..…Karla Maravilla (Granger, WA)

The Day Buries Itself…………………...Luisa Caycedo-Kimura (Bloomfield, CT)

Tell Me, Fantasma…………..……..…...Guillermo Filice Castro (North Bergen, NJ)

We Carry Wela’s Waters…………….…Gisselle Yepes (Bloomington, IN)

Self-Immolation Diaries………….……..Paloma Martinez-Cruz (Columbus, OH)

A Grito Contest in the Afterlife…………Vincent Rendoni (Seattle, WA)

The Magician……………………………Jose Hernandez Diaz (Norwalk, CA)

 

 

 

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