{"id":145227,"date":"2020-05-22T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T15:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=145227"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:50:35","slug":"the-winners-of-92ys-2020-discovery-poetry-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/22\/the-winners-of-92ys-2020-discovery-poetry-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Winners of 92Y\u2019s 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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92Y\u2019s 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest winners.<\/p><\/div>\n

For close to seven decades, 92Y\u2019s Discovery Poetry Contest has recognized the exceptional work of poets who have not yet published a first book. Many of these writers\u2014John Ashbery, Mark Strand, Lucille Clifton, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Mary Jo Bang, and Solmaz Sharif, among others\u2014have gone on to become leading voices in their generations.<\/p>\n

The 2020 competition received close to a thousand submissions, which were read by preliminary judges Diana Marie Delgado and Timothy Donnelly. After much deliberating, final judges Jericho Brown, Paisley Rekdal, and Wendy Xu awarded this year\u2019s prizes to Asa Drake, Luther Hughes, Ana Portnoy Brimmer, and Daniella Toosie-Watson. The runners-up were Amrita Chakraborty, Katherine Indermaur, J. Estanislao Lopez, and Jeremy Voigt.<\/p>\n

The four winners receive five hundred dollars, publication on The<\/em> Paris Review Daily<\/em>, a stay at the Ace Hotel, and a reading at 92Y\u2019s Unterberg Poetry Center this fall. We\u2019re pleased to present their work below. <\/p>\n

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Asa Drake.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Asa Drake<\/strong> is a Filipina American writer and public services librarian in Central Florida. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the New School and is the recipient of fellowships from Tin House and Idyllwild Arts. Her most recent work is published or forthcoming in Copper Nickel<\/em>,\u00a0Epiphany<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0Tupelo Quarterly<\/em>.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

This Is One Way to Listen\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I cut branches from the money tree. Surely
\nunlucky. A jackal\u2019s head\u2014no matter what
\nbody we find it on\u2014is a sign of death.
\nBut then the good news, announcements,
\nstore credit. And still, a jackal\u2019s head, if I
\nmove carelessly, will enter my kitchen.
\nI can\u2019t recognize my ghosts today. This one
\nhas an 80s windbreaker and short curls,
\nand my mother asks if I\u2019m sure she\u2019s not
\na woman in white instead of a white woman.
\nShe\u2019s a white woman looking at my wedding
\nphotos<\/em>,\u00a0I tell my mother.\u200b But what
\ndoes she feel like<\/em>,\u200b my mother presses. I
\ndon\u2019t know every woman who made me.<\/p>\n

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Lue Hughes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Lue Hughes<\/strong> is from Seattle, author of the chapbook\u00a0Touched<\/em>, founder of Shade Literary Arts, and executive editor for The Offing<\/em>. Along with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat, she cohosts the podcast The Poet Salon<\/em>. She has been featured in Poetry<\/em>,\u00a0Forbes<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0The Rumpus<\/em>, among others. Lue received her M.F.A. from Washington University in Saint Louis.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

It Is February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Some odd stream of oak trees
\n………….<\/span>line the sidewalk like a phrase
\nthat never leaves the mind\u2014
\n………….<\/span>\u201cI love you\u201d or \u201cI have love for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

He kissed me this morning
\n………….<\/span>beneath the gray quilt of late winter
\nlike he loves me, and there\u2019s a difference
\n………….<\/span>in the work of nature today.<\/p>\n

Sometimes difference is simple,
\n………….<\/span>but today there\u2019s a woman at the bus stop
\nscreaming, I hate you you fucking nigger<\/em>.
\n………….<\/span>I watch as sunlight crumbles<\/p>\n

against Lake Washington, watch a bird
\n………….<\/span>that appears, at first, to be a raven,
\nbut with a subtle twitch of its blouse-wing,
\n………….<\/span>turns crow as it lands next to a puddle of trash.<\/p>\n

Is the woman angry or frustrated?
\n………….<\/span>There\u2019s a freckling of pigeons,
\ntired of the leftover Starbucks. There\u2019s a man
\n………….<\/span>grabbing the ass of another looking at me<\/p>\n

as if I were a forest to be lost in.
\n………….<\/span>There\u2019s always a way hunger declares itself.
\nIs that what it means to be Black in Seattle,
\n………….<\/span>standing here admiring the rotting moan<\/p>\n

of car horns as if nothing were happening?
\n………….<\/span>The white man next to me looks at me
\nand shakes his head, mouth shedding a smirk.
\n………….<\/span>A police car sirens a group of women<\/p>\n

not to cross\u2014loud red fowl. If wondering,
\n………….<\/span>the woman is Black. Does that make a difference?
\nOn my phone, I read a caption that says,
\n………….<\/span>\u201cMissed two but got four. Next time they won\u2019t<\/p>\n

be so lucky,\u201d referencing four birds, each shot
\n………….<\/span>in the head or the unseemly breast.
\nDoes knowing the birds are American crows
\n………….<\/span>make a difference? There\u2019s smoke climbing<\/p>\n

out the sewer. There\u2019s a child laughing
\n………….<\/span>or crying. In the article beneath, 14-year-old
\nGeorge Stinney Jr. is killed by electric chair
\n………….<\/span>for being accused of murdering two white girls.<\/p>\n

His Blackness is never mentioned. This matters.
\n………….<\/span>It matters more than the shot crows,
\nmore than the woman who by now is so quiet,
\n………….<\/span>a city of her own. As I get on the bus,<\/p>\n

I wonder if she has a son. I want a son,
\n………….<\/span>which might be weird given I am newly in love,
\ngiven that we are Black. Isn\u2019t it irresponsible
\n………….<\/span>to raise a child in this city of mammoth hills<\/p>\n

and Mt. Rainier teething away at the sky?
\n………….<\/span>I think I will die before I get the privilege.
\nSometimes I slush through this city
\n………….<\/span>and feel like I have died already.<\/p>\n

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Ana Portnoy Brimmer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ana Portnoy Brimmer<\/strong> is a Puerto Rican poet-performer, writer, and organizer. She is an alumna of Rutgers University\u2013Newark, where she received an M.F.A. in creative writing. Her chapbook To Love an Island<\/em> was the winner of the YesYes Books 2019 Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest; her debut full-length collection is forthcoming with YesYes Books in spring 2021. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Winter Tangerine<\/em>,\u00a0Gulf Coast<\/em>,\u00a0The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatinNEXT<\/em>, and\u00a0Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Educaci\u00f3n<\/strong><\/p>\n

……………………..<\/span>after Lark Omura<\/em><\/p>\n

Always swim towards an oncoming wave.
\nNever swim against the current, let it hurl you out to sea, then wade back ashore.
\nThe shore is lined with sargassum and sea grape, not littered.
\nDon\u2019t litter the sand that straddles a leatherback\u2019s young.
\nLeatherbacks leave for ocean and migrate years before returning.
\nReturning will die on the airport runway, buried inside your rib cage.
\nYour rib cage will resprout with return through graveyard soil.
\nKeep mice away from the soil you pile into pots of aj\u00ed and white oregano.
\nA good pot of white rice colors your lips with oil.
\nPour oil into the pot to pave it with pegao.
\nDon\u2019t throw away pegao, the scraping hides resistance.
\nCats will hide hours before a hurricane.
\nThe eye of a hurricane opens the eyes of a people.
\nThe eyes of a people can grow clouded with Saharan dust.
\nSaharan dust crosses the Atlantic, storms through windows of foreclosed homes.
\nTo occupy a foreclosed building is to step on a police anthill.
\nThe police will tear gas you because you fight for education.
\nThe police will tear gas you because you fight.
\nThe police will tear gas you.
\nTear gas washes off with vegetable oil, water and Palmolive.
\nWatch water at your ankles, it could be raining upriver.
\nEl R\u00edo Guanajibo, el R\u00edo Mameyes will bathe you when your pipes and faucet parch.
\nWhen you\u2019re parched for day\u2019s end, have a Medalla.
\nA Medalla won\u2019t raise your salary or free Puerto Rico, but tonight, it\u2019ll do.
\nTonight, listen for the strange music of sirens and chicharras.
\nTonight, imagine sirens lure to shipwreck away from your archipelago.
\nTonight, let news of your archipelago watch itself.
\nInstead, watch for Dominicana and the Virgin Islands watching you, just as eager for your hand.
\nTonight, when the power goes out, give your neighbor a hand\u2014connect them to your generator.
\nTonight, connect last year\u2019s Christmas lights and count all the burnt-out bulbs.
\nTonight, from New Jersey, count the days till you come back home.<\/p>\n

Educaci\u00f3n\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

……………………..<\/span>inspirado por Lark Omura<\/em><\/p>\n

Siempre nada hacia la ola venidera.
\nNunca nades contra la corriente, deja que te arroje hacia la mar, luego nada de vuelta a la orilla.
\nLa orilla est\u00e1 forrada de sargazo y uva de playa, no sucia.
\nNo ensucies la arena que acuna la cr\u00eda de un tinglar.
\nLos tinglares se van al oc\u00e9ano y migran por a\u00f1os antes de regresar.
\nRegresar morir\u00e1 en la pista de aterrizaje, enterrado entre tus costillas.
\nTus costillas reto\u00f1ar\u00e1n el regreso por tierra de cementerio.
\nEspanta a ratones de la tierra que amontonas en tiestos de aj\u00ed y or\u00e9gano blanco.
\nUna buena olla de arroz blanco te pinta los labios de aceite.
\n\u00c9chale aceite a la olla para empedrarla con pegao.
\nNo botes el pegao, el raspado esconde la resistencia.
\nLos gatos se esconden horas antes de un hurac\u00e1n.
\nEl ojo de un hurac\u00e1n abre los ojos de un pueblo.
\nLos ojos de un pueblo se pueden nublar con polvos del Sahara.
\nLos polvos del Sahara cruzan el Atl\u00e1ntico, estallan por ventanas de casas embargadas.
\nOcupar un edificio embargado es pisar un hormiguero de polic\u00edas.
\nLa polic\u00eda te echar\u00e1 gases lacrim\u00f3genos si luchas por la educaci\u00f3n.
\nLa polic\u00eda te echar\u00e1 gases lacrim\u00f3genos si luchas.
\nLa polic\u00eda te echar\u00e1 gases lacrim\u00f3genos.
\nLos gases lacrim\u00f3genos se lavan con aceite vegetal, agua y Palmolive.
\nVela el agua a tus tobillos, puede estar lloviendo r\u00edo arriba.
\nEl R\u00edo Guanajibo, el R\u00edo Mameyes te ba\u00f1ar\u00e1n cuando tengan sed las tuber\u00edas y el grifo.
\nCuando tengas sed por el fin de hoy, date una Medalla.
\nUna Medalla no aumentar\u00e1 tu sueldo ni liberar\u00e1 a Puerto Rico, pero por esta noche, bastar\u00e1.
\nEsta noche, escucha la m\u00fasica extra\u00f1a de las sirenas y chicharras.
\nEsta noche, imagina que sirenas seducen al naufragio lejos de tu archipi\u00e9lago.
\nEsta noche, deja que las noticias de tu archipi\u00e9lago se miren a s\u00ed mismas.
\nEn vez, mira hacia Dominicana y las Islas V\u00edrgenes mir\u00e1ndote a ti, igual de anhelantes por tu mano.
\nEsta noche, cuando se vaya la luz, \u00e9chale la mano a tu vecinx\u2014con\u00e9ctale a tu planta el\u00e9ctrica.
\nEsta noche, conecta las luces de Navidad del a\u00f1o pasado y cuenta las bombillas fundidas.
\nEsta noche, desde New Jersey, cuenta los d\u00edas hasta regresar a la isla.<\/p>\n

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Daniella Toosie-Waller.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Daniella Toosie-Watson<\/strong> is a poet, visual artist, and educator from New York. She has received fellowships and awards from the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the InsideOut Detroit Literary Arts Project, The Watering Hole, and the University of Michigan Hopwood Program. Her poetry has appeared in Callaloo<\/em>,\u00a0Virginia Quarterly Review<\/em>,\u00a0SLICE<\/em>,\u00a0and\u00a0The BreakBeat Poets Volume 4: LatiNext<\/em>. Daniella received her M.F.A. from the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers\u2019 Program.<\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

A Series of Small Miracles<\/strong><\/p>\n

after Ross Gay after Gwendolyn Brooks<\/em><\/p>\n

This morning
\nI stepped outside & the chill
\nkissed my forehead but only after I gave permission
\n& afterwards I was still okay\u00a0with the touch
\n& when I returned to my apartment, I was okay
\nwith the leaving. But we aren\u2019t there yet.
\nMy neighbor walked by with her dog,
\nstopped to let me pet her & thanked me
\nfor doing so. & listen, now I will tell you:
\ntoday, my room is warm.
\nI sit on my bed. I lift my shorts.
\nI notice the crease between
\nmy thigh & lower belly,
\ntrace my finger between that small valley
\n& I say\u00a0it is good<\/em>. I notice my thigh, its generosity,
\nsqueeze the fat of it. Slap it one time for good
\nmeasure.\u00a0Listen: in this poem, there are no men.
\nI give to myself &\u00a0give again.
\nI cup my small breast
\n& I\u2019m thankful\u2014 there is no one here
\nto tell her that she does not have enough to give.
\nI play a record & my mind is clear to hear it.
\nToday, I lie in bed all afternoon
\n& it is my choice.
\nI breathe in & the breathing is simple. I breathe out\u2014
\na mango grove fills my room. I crawl into a cradle of branches.
\nI rest my head on a bunch of mangos. Yesterday, I heard
\nsomeone call out\u00a0Sorrow<\/em>\u00a0& I did not turn my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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