| Beyza Ayele | dark=good |
| Justin C. Berkbigler | Who’s the Terrorist |
| Shanelle Clogston | Salt Watered Eyes (A Shell’s Peril) |
| Katherine Cole | Collectively Listening |
| Jessie Dixon | Finishing |
| Sally Elhousieny | Purple |
| Hitoe Engelbrekt | A Student in Class |
| Terell Fox | Unto Caesar |
| Lisa Fryett | Columbia |
| Darin Gad | Crazy |
| Liezel Moraleja Hackett | Asthma |
| Mia Harrison | WhenDeyTryNStopUButDeyCaint |
| Jessica Kunder | Interloper |
| J.L. Lorenz | My Body |
| Corbin Louis | Zen Liquor Store |
| Reed Lowell | Weave |
| Joan McBride | The Dead Send Dreams |
| Denise Calvetti Michaels | Where is the Map? |
| Kelsey Phillips | Butterfly Garden |
| Sam Prudente | Conservations: Out of Thin Air |
| Elizabeth Salinas | Heroine Within Me |
| W. Sean Mosman Sinclair | A Draft on Distant Desire and a Pot of Earl Grey Tea |
| Kat Seidemann | La Isla |
| Sage Stephens | A Poem’s Plead |
| Dominique Tate | A Bookish Tale |
| Anna Vilhauer | *bold terms from U.S. Census Bureau Glossary |
| Jasmin Will. | Surrender |
| Taryn Ziegler | We’re Killing The World, Aren’t We |