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92Y Announces Winners of 2020 Discovery Poetry Contest

Originally Published: May 27, 2020

Congratulations to the winners of the 92Y's Discovery Poetry Contest, announced by the Paris Review Daily: Asa Drake, Luther Hughes, Ana Portnoy Brimmer, and Daniella Toosie-Watson. (The runners-up: Amrita Chakraborty, Katherine Indermaur, J. Estanislao Lopez, and Jeremy Voigt.) More:

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’s prizes […] The four winners receive five hundred dollars, publication on The Paris Review Daily, a stay at the Ace Hotel, and a reading at 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center this fall.

Read selections from their work at Paris Review Daily.