Announcing Zócalo’s Fifth Annual Poetry Prize Winner
Congratulations to Matt Phillips, the Author of ‘Crossing Coronado Bridge,’ This Year’s Best Poem About Place
Zócalo’s daily ideas journalism and free public events aim to shed light on critical issues that explain our shared human condition and ask questions about how we navigate through the world we’ve made. We’re proud that we publish a new poem each Friday with the same spirit and that we’ve been able to award a prize for the last five years to the poem that best evokes a connection to place.
This year, a record 443 poets submitted 1,016 poems, taking us to streets in South Korea, markets in Ecuador, and …
