the pacific spirit poetry prize judge’s essay
Billy-Ray Belcourt – The Not-Yet and the What-Is-To-Come
the pacific spirit poetry prize grand prize winner
syan jay – CROSS-SECTIONS OF SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS & SHELLS, 2013
the pacific spirit poetry prize runners-up
Tara McGowan-Ross – a simple instruction
Samantha Nock – pahpowin
RUIN
Steven Heighton – Notes toward a new theory of tears
Justin Ducharme – a boy with hands like mine
Autumn Koe-Schnell – Learning to be Lost
Carrie Snyder – Early Onset
Elee Kraljii Gardiner – Exorcise
Marie Baléo – Phantom Pain
(RE)VOLT
Brandi Bird – Selkirk, Manitoba
Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela – Slovenly Wilderness
Joshua Whitehead – ndn anality
Kate Finegan – A Mosaic in the Making
Cecilia Stuart – Spring break forever
Natasha Ramoutar – Where We Keep the Bodies
(RE)VERSE
Emily Riddle – napew redux
Christine Lai – Camera Obscura
Tin Lorica – alt boy
Tenille K Campbell – medicine songs
Rebecca Hirsch Garcia – Common Animals
Timiro Mohamed – Orchestra
Özten Elaine Paul – October, 2018