Announcing the winners of the 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize
We are pleased to announce that our 2022 judge Natalie Diaz has selected a winner and two runners-up from a slate of finalists and semi-finalists for North American Review's 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize. Thank you to everyone who submitted poetry for the prize. We had 384 entries this year, and we enjoyed reading such an abundance of excellent poetry. The winner and runner-up will appear in the Spring 2022 issue of the North American Review, and all entrants will receive a copy.
Winner
1997 Southside — J.K. Tsosie
Runners-up
Sneaking Onto the Reservoir Again — Robert Wood Lynn
How An Oxbow Lake, My Daughter — Elisabeth Preston-Hsu
Finalists
The Boys Who Came Back — Alice Templeton
Equinox — Matt Miller
Chalcopyrite — Michael Grabell
The Baby Pig — Shanan Ballam
Medusa to Psappho — Flower Conroy
Cat in a Box — Robert Wood Lynn
The Fantastic Story of G and Her Tumor — Alejandro Escude
Lamentation of Butterfly Envelopes — Amber Rose Crowtree
At the Ashokan Watershed — Madeleine Cravens
A Boat Wrote a Letter — Jonny Perez
Ohio Elegy — Roy Bentley
Blood — Christian Collier
Prone — Julio Diaz
Afraid — Maria Nazos
Grits (and Love and Happiness) — Greg Emilio
Lost Sonata — Lynne Thompson
Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in March 2020. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow, a United States Artists Ford Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. Diaz is Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.