We’d like to thank all of the poets and writers who shared their manuscripts with us for the 2026 Hudson Prize. And today, we are pleased to announce the finalists and semi-finalists:
Finalists
On the Divide by Iver Arnegard
21st Century America Boys by Leland Cheuk
Wherever Shore by Stephanie Choi
The Glass Headstone by Colin Criss
Elk Teeth by Noah Davis
Certain Species of Want by Cristi Donoso
All My Treasures by Fatima Jafar
Only the Dead Let Me Talk This Much by José Enrique Medina
Still, Sometimes, Shipwreck by Anastasios Mihalopoulos
Derrida’s Cat by Leslie Adrienne Miller
The Noisy Quietude of Mikhail Gorky by Ken Pisani
When Did We Start Talking Like Ghosts by Roseanne Pereira
When I Was My Brother’s Brother by Zack Ryback
Those We Lost in the Fog by Sam Simas
Flying into a Hurricane by Sandy Solomon
Erratics by Dana Dean Thomann
Semi-Finalists
Sacred Parasite by Meagan Arthur
We Were Vessels by Amber Wheeler Bacon
This Corporeal Story by Karen Sherk Chio
A Terrarium on the Moon by Anna Chotlos
The Sand Foundation by Cynthia Clifford
not this by Josh English
Water in the Lungs by James R. Gapinski
Lesser Saints by Donna Gordon
Black Hole Burbia by Dustin M. Hoffman
Gunny Sack by Luke Janicki
Hiraeth by Eddie Kim
Clumsy and Covered in Earth by Grant Kittrell
Here, Take My Hand by Maureen Langloss
The Treachery of Saints by Scott Pomfret
My Ghost by Ariel Joy So
We will choose a winner from the pool of finalists shortly. Stay tuned!
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