Stay tuned! For the 40th Anniversary of the Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Poetry Awards in 2018, we’ll be doing something completely new in the fall. Change is good. But it means that we will not be taking poetry submissions this year.
In the meantime, enjoy reviewing the winners of the 2017 Jo-Anne Hirshfield Memorial Poetry Awards.
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Program of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Awards (2017)
