Winners of the 2025 James Hearst Poetry Prize

We are pleased to announce that our 2025 Contest Judge, Stephanie Burt, has selected a winner, two runners-up, and an honorable mention from a slate of finalists for North American Review's 2025 James Hearst Poetry Prize. Thank you to everyone who submitted poetry for the prize. We had 436 entries this year, and we enjoyed reading such an abundance of excellent poetry. The winner, runners-up, honorable mention, and finalists will appear in the Spring 2025 issue of North American Review, and all entrants will receive a copy. 

Winner
Kelly Rowe, “Out of Office Reply

Runners-Up 
Liza Katz Duncan, “After Miscarriage”
Max Seifert, “[ ] Takes Me to Dinner in Our Hometown”

Honorable Mention 
Matthew Gellman, “The Solitudes”

Finalists
Lindsay D’Andrea, “Milk”
Lindsay D’Andrea, “Subsistence”
Ja’net Danielo “The Historical Present”
Fay Dillof, “How Would I Describe It?”
Kai-Lilly Karpman, “Bargain”
Amy Miller, “Bagel”
William Rieppe Moore, From Southern Appalachia”
Jenny Molberg, “Veronica”
Simone Muench & Jackie K. White, “Claude Cahun Elegizes the Face”
Alison Powell “Taxonomy”
Lisa Rosinsky, “Midrash of the Snake”
Max Seifert, “The National Cathedral” 
Jess Smith, “Jupiter Among the Corybantes”
Jess Smith, “The Schlieren Plot, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth”
Arthur Solway, “For a Family of Clowns”