ANNETTE ALLEN POETRY CELEBRATION 2025
at the 52nd Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Hosted by the University Writing Center at Ekstrom LibraryPrize Winner: Joshua Bloom
Honorable Mention: Ayla Goktan
Honorable Mention: Matthew Stuber
Runners Up: Navah Chestnut, Brody Johnson
3rd Annual AAPP Judge: Robert Eric Shoemaker
Committee: Flora K. Schildknecht - Chair, Diana Wilder - Co-Chair and LCLC Contact, Lynda Mercer - Director of Development and Communications
Honorable Mention: Ayla Goktan
Honorable Mention: Matthew Stuber
Runners Up: Navah Chestnut, Brody Johnson
3rd Annual AAPP Judge: Robert Eric Shoemaker
Committee: Flora K. Schildknecht - Chair, Diana Wilder - Co-Chair and LCLC Contact, Lynda Mercer - Director of Development and Communications
With thanks to our 2024 guest reader, Dr. Kristi Maxwell, Director of Creative Writing, University of Louisville
3rd Annual AAPP Judge, Dr. Robert Eric Shoemaker
Robert Eric Shoemaker is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Eric is the author of Ca'Venezia (2021, Partial Press), We Knew No Mortality (2018, Acta Publications), and 30 Days Dry (2015, Thought Collection Publishing). Eric’s work has been published or is forthcoming in Zone 3, Tupelo Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, Jacket2, ANMLY, Rattle, Asymptote, Exchanges, Signs and Society, and other journals. Eric earned a PhD from the University of Louisville and an MFA from Naropa University. Follow him at reshoemaker.com.
ANNETTE ALLEN POETRY CELEBRATION 2024
at the 51st Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Hosted by the University Writing Center at Ekstrom LibraryPrize Winner: Clare Kramer
Honorable Mention: Eddie Hickerson
Honorable Mention: Preeti Tanwani
Runners Up: Logan Funderburg, Kel Proctor
Honorable Mention: Eddie Hickerson
Honorable Mention: Preeti Tanwani
Runners Up: Logan Funderburg, Kel Proctor
2nd Annual AAPP Judge: Julie Marie Wade
Committee: Flora K.Schildknecht - Chair, Lynda Mercer - Communications, Diana Wilder - Treasurer and Graduate Humanities RSO Coordinator
Committee: Flora K.Schildknecht - Chair, Lynda Mercer - Communications, Diana Wilder - Treasurer and Graduate Humanities RSO Coordinator
2nd Annual AAPP Judge, Dr. Julie Marie Wade
Julie Marie Wade is a member of the creative writing faculty at Florida International University in Miami. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, her collections of poetry and prose include Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires: Essays, Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems, When I Was Straight, Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, and Skirted. Her collaborative titles include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, written with Denise Duhamel, and Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, written with Brenda Miller. Wade makes her home in Dania Beach with her spouse Angie Griffin and their two cats. Her newest projects are Fugue: An Aural History (New Michigan Press, 2023), and Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House, 2023), selected by Lia Purpura for the 2022 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Book Prize. Wade is the winner of Anhinga Press Prize for Poetry for Quick Change Artist, published in 2025.
ANNETTE ALLEN POETRY CELEBRATION 2023
at the 50th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
Prize Winner: Mary Elizabeth Pope
Honorable Mention: Rachael Magruder
Honorable Mention: Jennifer Lavery
Honorable Mention: Rachael Magruder
Honorable Mention: Jennifer Lavery
Inaugural AAPP Judge: Maureen Morehead
Committee: Flora K. Schildknecht - Chair, Lynda Mercer - Communications, Diana Wilder - Treasurer, Robert Eric Shoemaker - Advisor, Brandon Harwood - Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society Liaison
Committee: Flora K. Schildknecht - Chair, Lynda Mercer - Communications, Diana Wilder - Treasurer, Robert Eric Shoemaker - Advisor, Brandon Harwood - Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society Liaison
Inaugural AAPP Judge, Maureen Morehead
Maureen Morehead, 2011-12 KY Poet Laurette, served as judge for the 2022/23 inaugural run of the Annette Allen Poetry Prize. Morehead is the author of several collections of poetry, including The Red Gate (2018), The Melancholy Teacher (2010), and A Sense of Time Left (2003).
The Annette Allen Poetry Prize is made possible through generous donations from alumni of the Humanities PhD Program at the University of Louisville and friends of Annette Allen.
