Winners, recordings and texts of poems
The judges for the 36th Competition, held in 2025, were:
- Judith R. Robinson – the 2024 First Prize winner.
- Fran Levin – one of the 2024 Honourable Mention winners.
- Baruch November, an acclaimed U.S. poet, our International Judge for 2025.
First prize: Mark Elber (USA): A Young Man’s Art
Second prize: Anne Myles: Pomegranate
Third Prize: Wendy Blumfield: Fifty-Eight Steps
Honorable mentions, in alphabetical order of poet’s surname:
Lisa Aigen: Cycling Through New Orleans
Laurel Benjamin: Woman as an Aramaic Incantation Bowl
Brenda Brett: Blue
Wendy Dickstein: Run and Return
Alan Hill: The End of Everything
Ofira Koopmans: Resonance
Judy Koren: Ancient Ceremony
Michael Lavian: Motherland
Esther B. Lipton: In Memory
Suzanne Musin: Underground
To read and download the texts of the three winning poems and the ten that gained an Honourable Mention, click here (pdf file).
Voices Israel Group of Poets in English 