Patricia Cleary Miller Award for Poetry

Winner: S. Erin Batiste, “He Said/He Said”

Poetry Judge: Cortney Lamar Charleston

First Runner-Up: “Eastern Garter” by Mark Rubin

S. Erin Batiste is an interdisciplinary poet and artist. She is a 2022-2023 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow with The Poetry Project and a 2022-2023 Recess Critical Writing Fellow. She has received fellowships and generous support from Cave Canem, PEN America, Tin House, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Rona Jaffe Foundation, and The Jerome Foundation, among other honors. Author of the chapbook, Glory to All Fleeting Things, her work has exhibited in New York and has appeared internationally in Interim, Michigan Quarterly Review, wildness, You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, and In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy.

Cortney Lamar Charleston’s poems have appeared in a range of publications, including POETRY, The Nation, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review and Granta. A Pushcart Prize-winning poet, Charleston has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation as well as fellowships from Cave Canem, The Conversation Literary Festival and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His debut full-length poetry collection, Telepathologies, was selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize and released in March 2017. His second full-length collection, Doppelgangbanger, was released in February 2021 by Haymarket Books and named a best book of 2021 by the New York Public Library and the Boston Globe. He is a poet Essence magazine thinks you should know. He is the poetry editor of The Rumpus and serves on the Alice James Books editorial board.