Every year the Editors of RHINO Poetry select works that have had the greatest impact on us.
Cash awards are given for First, Second, and Third Place winners.
Winners are acknowledged in that year’s journal and on our website. Beginning in 2013, the First Place winner will be nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
There is no application process.
2012 Editors’ Prizes
First Prize: Sean Howard – shadowgraph 44: observation appears as an event
Second Prize: Kevin Simmonds – Salt (a suicide meditation)
Honorable Mentions:
Shadab Zeest Hashimi – I look out the Mughal window
Seth Oelbaum – Female Stockings (Elizabethan Sonnet)
2011 Editors’ Prizes
First Prize: Kathi Morrison-Taylor – In the Dream of My Father at the Bar on Tatooine – Poem (PDF)
Second Prize: M. Ayodele Heath – The Stuttering House Negro Diviner Speaks: Heath Plantation, 1863 – Poem (PDF)
Honorable Mentions:
Hafizah Geter – paula – Poem (PDF)
John Hart – Vlado Daydreams about a Woman after She’s Been Shot – Poem (PDF)
2010 Editors’ Prize Winners
First Prize: Sally Wen Mao - The Spring of Terrible Fevers – poem (PDF)
Second Prize: Lauren Camp – The Hum poem (PDF)
Third Prize: Rynn Williams – Sin City – poem (PDF)
2009 Editors’ Prize Winners
First Prize: Jesse Nissum - Being the Neighbor - poem (PDF)
Second Prize: Pamela Garvey - The Trembling – poem (PDF)
Honorable Mention: Kim Andrews – Love’s Varietal – poem (PDF)
Honorable Mention: Greg Grummer – Abel’s Last Date – poem (PDF)
Translation Prize: Jeannine Marie Pitas for Excerpts from The History of Violets I, XIX, and XX
by Marosa Di Giorgio - poem
2008 Editors’ Prize Winners
First Prize: Aseem Kaul - Late Sonata – poem (PDF)
Second Prize: Moira Magneson After The Election – poem (PDF)
Honorable Mention: Mather Schneider - Shooting The Chickens – poem (PDF)
2007 Editors’ Prize Winners
First Prize: Thomas Dukes – Etudes for El Paso and Spanish Guitar – poem (PDF)
Second Prize: Jeannette Allée - Lucifer Cleared His Goatish Throat – poem (PDF)
Honorable Mention: John Repp - No Away – poem (PDF)
2006 RHINO Readers=Writers Prize Winner: Marion Boyer – Endlessly Blooming with Clouds and Birds
