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We are so thrilled to announce the poets on this year’s Peach Gold in Poetry longlist:
Aidan Aragon
Alexis Aceves Garcia
Alicia Mireles Christoff
Carolyn Janecek
Dženana Vucic
Elizabeth Kolenda
Fargo Tbakhi
Felix Lecocq
Hajjar Baban
Kayleb Rae Candrilli
kiki nicole
kitchen mckeown
Matt Constantino
Selena Cotte
We will be announcing the shortlist in early June and the winners by the end of June. Congratulations and best of luck to these 14 exciting poets!
The winners of this year's Peach Gold, Silver, and Bronze will be selected by ALOK, internationally acclaimed writer and performance artist. ALOK is the author of the poetry book Femme in Public (2017), a meditation on anti-trans harassment, and Beyond the Gender Binary (2020), a clarion call for a new approach to gender in the 21st century. In 2019, they were honored as one of NBC's 30 LGBTQ changemakers and one of Out Magazine's Out100.
For more information on this year's Peach Gold in Poetry, visit the Gold page of our website.
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