Poetry Chapbook Semifinalists 2024

The following 21 entries are semifinalists in the 2023 Wolfson Press Poetry Chapbook Prize competition. We're grateful to all of the poets who submitted manuscripts this year, and we look forward to announcing the short list of finalists soon.

William Brymer, Bird on a Wire

Michael Chang, Welcome to the Neighborhood

Aliyah Cotton, The Lungs Remember Breath

Susan G. Duncan, Genealogy

Josh Feit, City States

Judith Fox, Bridge to New Music

Ockert Greeff, A Mass Choir of Little Things

Sophie Hoss, Small Winter Burning

Marcia L. Hurlow, Dog Physics

Romana Iorga, Witness Protection

Mickie Kennedy, Letting the Dead Inside

Joseph Kenney, Spooky Action at a Distance

Julia B. Levine, Lullaby for the Sixth Extinction

Bern Mulvey, Promise

Andi Myles, Fractured Symphony

Marcella Remund, Stroke, Stroke

Joyce Schmid, Insane

Mandy Shunnarah, We Had Mansions

Stefan Sullivan, I Want to Play Piano on a Private Submarine

Elizabeth Sylvia, My Little Book of Domestic Anxieties

Alex Tretbar, Sturnella Neglecta