The Pulitzer Center congratulates the 2025 Fighting Words Poetry Contest winners and finalists!This year's Fighting Words ...

Swan. Poems and Prose Poems. Mary Oliver. Beacon Press: 96 pp., $23 “What can I say that I have not said before?” the poet Mary Oliver wonders on page 1 of this, her 20th collection.

David Martin won the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize for Tar Swan, a poem about the history and myth of the Alberta oil sands. The 2014 prize jury — Roy Miki, Rachel Rose and Katherena Vermette ...