The Plaza Poetry Prize
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The Plaza Prizes are bigger and better in 2025. We have the best judges in the world and the cash prizes aren’t too shabby either. You could win £4000 / $5000, and publication, for your poem. We will nominate the winner for The Forward Prize (worth £1000 / $1200).
Our 2025 judge is an incredibly powerful poet: Pulitzer Prize-winner, Natalie Diaz.
Natalie’s Postcolonial Love Poem won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was winner of an American Book Award. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, a Lannan Literary Foundation Fellow, a Native Arts and Culture Foundation Fellow, and a former Princeton University Hodder Fellow.
Natalie was awarded the Princeton Holmes National Poetry Prize and is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United States Artists, where she is an alumnus of the Ford Fellowship.
Natalie is Founding Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University, where she is a Professor in the English MFA program. In 2021, Diaz was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and was a finalist for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
She resides in Phoenix, Arizona, but is currently living in Brooklyn as a Mellon Foundation Research Residency Fellowship and a
Senior Fellow at The New School Institute on Race, Power and Political
Economy. She is the 2024 Yale Rosenkranz Writer in Residence.
So, send us, and Natalie, your poems. To be long-listed (that’s the final 20) is an achievement. To be shortlisted in the Top 10, or place second or third, or win will be a validation of your skills, and get you published in our third anthology, in 2025.
“In her soaring poems, Diaz deepens and revises the word “postcolonial”, demonstrating not only that love persists in the aftermath of colonialism, but that it provides a means of transcendence, too."”
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