These finalists will be published in Issue 53 in March 2026: Jack Brummett for “I Work at a Dog Kennel,” Kristen Gallagher for “820 The Beach – Hare,” Beth Kephart for “Lightning Strikes,” Warren Longmire for “House Flag for Fathers,” Alan Pelaez Lopez for “Disaster is a Politic,” Alison Powell for “Life Loop,” G. Dylan Sessoms for “Poem about a Portrait My Ex-Wife Hung in the Kitchen, and Nothing Else, ” and Amy Beth Sisson for “Pith Vispo / Pith Translation”